Vision and Objectives

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Vision and Objectives for SITE Emil M. Petriu
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SITE mission is an integral part of the Faculty
of Engineering mission to provide its graduates
with top quality education in engineering and
computer science, preparing them to practice
their professions competently to meet the
ever-changing needs of society, and to continue
learning their discipline, allowing them to move
into other related fields including business, law
and medicine.  Excellence and diversity in
research are essential to our mission and build
on our strong collaboration with industry and
government research laboratories. The Faculty
encourages a spirit of entrepreneurship amongst
its students and personnel. The Faculty strives
to provide a learning environment that promotes
excellence and innovation, ethical practice and
responsibility towards society. The Faculty is
committed to a culture built on respect of the
individual and fair treatment for all.
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• SITE vision is an integral part of the Faculty of
  Engineering vision to uniquely position the
  faculty as a leader in innovation and excellence
  in engineering and computer science through
  education, research and scholarship in a
  professional framework reflecting our social
  responsibility. 
• .
• The faculty will continue to support the
  individual research initiatives of its
  professors, but will promote a strong focus on
  inter-disciplinary research in high-interest and
  impact areas as perceived by governments and
  industry as follows 
• e-Society
• Bio and health engineering
• Critical infrastructure design and
  survivability
• Sustainable energy and environmental
  technologies
• ..
• The faculty benefits from a strong presence
  and reputation in information technology (IT) and
  is firmly committed to continuing cutting edge
  research in this field.  Given the now pervasive
  nature of IT, its position in the facultys
  vision is now that of a fundamental enabler. 
  The faculty therefore strives to use its IT and
  related engineering capabilities to catalyze
  developments and advancements in other
  disciplines through collaboration and team
  efforts.

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SITE Directors Role The SITE Director should
work within the framework of the Faculty of
Engineering, providing leadership, formulating
specific goals, carrying on management duties,
listening to stakeholders, communicating the
sense of purpose and passion, and working
together with the colleagues to implement the
SITE mission and vision.
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Teaching, Learning, Programs

• Continue improving the quality and
  student-workload of our programs in order to make
  them more responsive to our students needs. gt
  meeting CEAB, CIPS, and OGS accreditation
  requirements
• Continue improving the professor-workload in
  order to increase the quality and productivity of
  their teaching and research.

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gtgtgt Teaching, Learning, Programs
IT-Telecommunications
Telecommunications (POT style)
1985 1990
1995 1997 2002
2008
PROBLEM Reach and maintain a critical mass for
our undergraduate and graduate enrolments that
would allow to dampen the effects of enrolment
variations
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gtgtgt Teaching, Learning, Programs
1985 1990
1995 1997 2002
2008
PROBLEM Reach and maintain a critical mass for
our undergraduate and graduate enrolments that
would allow to dampen the effects of enrolment
variations gt SOLUTION Increase the visibility
and support to the existing SITE programs
develop new interdisciplinary undergraduate and
graduate programs and options as well as other
initiatives dealing with business management,
entrepreneurship, law, arts (e.g. undergraduate
program in "emergent technology and culture" ),
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gtgtgt Teaching, Learning, Programs

• Increase the visibility and identity (branding)
  of the main academic components of SITE
• Computer Science
• Electrical Engineering
• Computer Engineering
• Software Engineering

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gtgtgt Teaching, Learning, Programs

• Existing interdisciplinary graduate programs
• Bioinformatics - (M.Sc./M.C.I.)
• Biomedical Engineering (M.A.Sc.)
• e-Business (Certificate)
• e-Business Technologies (M.Sc., M.E.B.T.)
• e-Commerce (Certificate)
• Engineering Management (M. Eng.)
• Information Technology Project Management
  (Certificate)
• Internet Technologies (Certificate)
• Modelling and Animation for Computer Games
  Technology (Certificate )
• Systems Science Certificate (M.Sc., M.Sys.Sc.)

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gtgtgt Teaching, Learning, Programs

• Develop cost-effective (max_impact min_cost)
  new undergraduate programs and options by
  market-oriented (appealing to the job
  aspirations of our potential students)
  repackaging existent course offerings and a
  minimal number of additional new courses
• Biomedical Electrical/Computer Engineering (
  Pre-Med)
• Biomedical Software Engineering ( Pre-Med)
• Green energy option in Electrical Engineering
• Major in Computer Science Minor in Law /
  Biology / Psychology / Arts /

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Bilingual Mandate Providing support for
maintaining and increasing the level of
bilingualism of our undergraduate programs.
Continue the efforts to forge long-term
privileged relations with the French schools in
Ontario and Québec and especially with those in
Ottawa, Eastern Ontario (e.g. École secondaire de
Casselman ) and the Outaouais.
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Research and Innovation
The SITE Director should support visionary
research that explores new science applications
and technologies for the future encourage a
climate of entrepreneurship for marketing and
technology transfer of research results and
knowledge-related activities.
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Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni It
is SITE Directors responsibility to promote a
working environment that allows all personnel and
students to thrive for excellence.
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gtgtgt Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni
Students Being first of all an academic unit
SITE should continue placing the students at the
core of its educational mission. Students
should be encouraged to develop leadership,
team-work, competitiveness, entrepreneurship and
business skills, interdisciplinary interests
including non technical fields, and soft skills
through extracurricular activities (e.g.
Undergraduate Computer Science Student
Association, Engineering Students Society , IEEE
Student Branch, ARISE)
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gtgtgt Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni

• Professors
• Maintain a positive working environment for all
  the professors providing opportunities and
  support for personal development and encouraging
  the young professors to develop into outstanding
  world-class researchers.
• It is essential to continue improving the
  professor-workload in order to increase the
  quality and productivity of their teaching and
  research.

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gtgtgt Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni
Support Staff The support staff plays an
essential role in the delivery of the academic
and research programs in SITE. SITE will
continue encouraging and recognizing initiatives
made by the support staff for the improvement of
the academic services, cyber-infrastructure,
teaching and research laboratories.
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gtgtgt Students, Professors, Support Staff, Alumni
Alumni Strengthen the connections with our
alumni who are essential to the reputation, as
well as to the fundraising. They are role-models
and provide professional networking to our
undergraduate and graduate students (e.g. Joseph
Noor, Protus, and Jim Pinard, PIKA, give a
lecture on entrepreneurship to the CEG4910/4911
Project Design Class every year).
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• Public Relations
• Promote SITE to the industrial, research,
  government, and public at large communities
  including our own University.
• Reactivation of the SITE Advisory Board.
• Continue support for the existent SITE Promotion
  Ambassadors and SITE Distinguished Lectures
  initiatives.
• Actively pursue local visibility by the
  publication of our success stories in the local
  media.

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Merci ! Thank You !
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