University of Ontario Institute of Technology
| University of Ontario Institute of Technology | |
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| Latin: Universitas Ontario Instituto Technologiae | |
| Motto | Cogitando et Agendo, Ducemus |
| Motto in English | "By thinking and doing we shall lead." [1] |
| Established | 2002 |
| Type | Public |
| Endowment | C$13.1 million [2] |
| Chancellor | Perrin Beatty |
| President | Dr. Tim McTiernan |
| Provost | Dr. Deborah Saucier |
| Academic staff | 868 [3] |
| Admin. staff | 404 [3] |
| Students | 9,203 [4] |
| Undergraduates | 8,685 |
| Postgraduates | 518 |
| Doctoral students | 55 [5] |
| Location |
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada 43°56′41.45″N 78°53′30.13″W / 43.9448472°N 78.8917028°WCoordinates: 43°56′41.45″N 78°53′30.13″W / 43.9448472°N 78.8917028°W |
| Campus | Urban/Suburban |
| Colours |
blue & lighter blue [6] |
| Sports | Hockey, Soccer, Lacrosse, Rowing, Curling, Tennis |
| Mascot | Hunter the Ridgeback |
| Affiliations | AUCC, IAU, COU, CIS, OUA, Fields Institute, Ontario Network of Women in engineering, CBIE, CARL, |
| Website | http://www.uoit.ca/ |
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The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is a public research university located in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. The university shares its campus with Durham College. The university was founded in 2002 and accepted its first students in 2003, making it one of Canada's newest universities. The enabling legislation is the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Act, 2002.[7] All undergraduate programs require students to lease a laptop PC from the university as a condition of enrollment, making it Ontario's only laptop-based university. Faculty members also encourage students to use their laptops to complete assignments, perform laboratory research and interact with faculty during lectures. UOIT offers a range of undergraduate programs, and graduate programs in Science, Engineering, Health and Information Technology. The UOIT campus is approximately 400 acres (160 ha) in the northern part of Oshawa.
History
UOIT was founded in 2002 by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology Act, 2002 passage by the Legislative Assembly of Ontario of Bill 109 on June 27, 2002. It is a public, career-focused university emphasizing science and technology, and a part of the Ontario government’s initiative to create more spaces in postsecondary institutions for the double cohort. UOIT's new slogan, "Challenge, Innovate, Connect" was unveiled in June 2006.
UOIT offered graduate and postgraduate programs and research opportunities[8] to the first 947 students in September 2003[9] and total enrolment was over 5,000 in the 2007–2008 school year, making it the fastest growing university in Ontario. The student population for 2009 was 6285 and 7018 in 2010; by 2012 there are 9203 students.[10] Teaching and research have long been considered the two pillars of the university endeavor.[11]
Plans have been announced for the Centre for Cybercrime Research which will be a separate, permanent location on campus and will be dedicated to leading-edge research and the training of graduate and undergraduate students in various aspects of cybercrime.[12] In addition, an expansion to the athletic facilities, funded largely by students, was completed in September 2007.[13][14]
The University has established a downtown campus. It purchased and renovated the Regent Theatre to be used as a lecture theatre during the week and as a community stage on the weekends. The university also renovated the former Alger Press building which opened in January 2011 as the headquarters of the UOIT downtown campus. UOIT has also initiated plans to renovate Victoria St. (Between King St. and Bond St. and beside Bordessa Hall) into a pedestrian, social and lounge area. Currently the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Faculty of Education are located downtown. The university just completed a comprehensive master plan for the downtown campus location entitled "Into the Future: A Framework & Action Plan for Growing UOIT & Downtown Oshawa. It will guide university growth over the next years and decades. The study anticipates the relocation of the Faculty of Business and Information Technology from the north campus location to the downtown campus location by 2015.
Programs
UOIT has seven faculties, each offering several programs.[15]
| Faculty of Business and Information Technology | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities |
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| Faculty of Education | Faculty of Energy Systems and Nuclear Science |
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| Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science | Faculty of Health Sciences |
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Research
Faculty members are involved in research in a variety of areas. These include:
- Multimedia Based Digital Authentication Schemes
- Statistical and Array Processing
- Wireless Communications and Signal Processing
- Satellite Communications
- Pervasive Computing
- Sensor and Information Networks
- Computer Forensics and Network Security
- Web Modelling and Optimization
- Computer Networking
- Networked and Distributed Control Systems
- Haptics and Virtual Reality (Laboratory for Advanced User Interfaces and Virtual Reality)
- Medical and Mobile Robotics
- Automatic/Intelligent Sensing and Control
- Power Engineering
- Vehicle dynamics
- Fuel cells and hydrogen
- Automotive aerodynamics[16]
- Noise, vibrations and harshness
- Automotive materials and manufacturing[16]
- Chassis design
- Automotive software and system modeling[16]
- Alternative fuels
- Hybrid vehicles
- Automotive systems[16]
- Dynamics, vibration and noise
- Engineering design
- Energy, thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics
- Manufacturing and materials
- Mechanics of solids and structures
- Robotics, automation and controls
- Semiconductor physics and nanotechnology
- Solar cells
- Information Visualization[17]
- Human-Computer Interaction[17][18]
- Game Science[18]
Athletics
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks Athletics department is home to a growing varsity athletics program featuring curling, dance, golf, hockey, rowing, tennis, women’s lacrosse and men’s soccer. The Ridgebacks are members of Ontario University Athletics (OUA) and Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS).
- Rowing
- Curling
- Tennis
- Golf
- Dance
- Men's Hockey
- Women's Hockey
- Men's Soccer
- Women's Soccer
Student life
Greek life
Fraternity:
- Tau Kappa Epsilon (2004) International Fraternity.
- Zeta Psi (2005) International Fraternity.
Tau Kappa Epsilon was the first fraternity chartered at UOIT and is the only fraternity to recruit both from UOIT and Durham College. With 292 chapters and over 290,000 members worldwide, they are the largest college fraternity in the world. Their six main values are brotherhood, scholarship, leadership, service, teamwork and character. TKE has also made an impact in the community and on campus.[19][20][21]
Sorority:
- Alpha Gamma Delta (2009) International Sorority (National Panhellenic Conference)
- Delta Psi Delta (Colony - 2013) Canadian National Sorority
Alpha Gamma Delta is UOIT's only international sorority with over 160,000 sisters worldwide. Their values include sisterhood, academic excellence, personal development, leadership and philanthropy.
Alpha Sigma Chi is a sorority that recruits from both UOIT and Durham College. It is a local sorority.
All of the sororities accept students from both Durham College and UOIT.
In addition to fraternities and sororities, UOIT also has a number of societies and clubs.[22]
Student societies
- UOIT Engineering Students' Society (ENGSOC)
- UOIT ASME Chapter ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
- UOIT IEEE Student Chapter Social page (UOIT IEEE Student Branch) IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
- UOIT Computer Science Club (USCS)
- Social page (HSC)
- UOIT Social Science and Humanities Student Society (SSHSS) Social page (SSHSS)
- UOIT Business and Information Technology Society (BITSOC) Social page (BITSOC)
- Networking and IT Security Student Society (NETsoc) Social Page (NETsoc)
- UOIT Science Council (SC) Social Page (SC)
- Social page of UOIT Concurrent Education Student Association (CESA)
- UOIT Graduate Studies Council (GSC) Social page (GSC)
- UOIT Accounting Association (UOAA) Social page (UOAA)
- UOIT Finance Society (UOFS) Social page (UOFS)
- Social page of UOIT-DC Outdoors Club
- Social page of Software & Electrical Engineering Klub (SEEK)
Buildings
The Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) is the first testing and research centre of its kind in Canada, and in many respects the world. It is owned by the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) and is located on the university’s north campus location in Oshawa, Ontario.
ACE is a multi-purpose centre with an area of approximately 16,300 square metres. It is divided into two distinct sections: a core research facility (CRF) and an integrated research and training facility (IRTF).
The CRF offers full-size chambers that allow for full climatic, structural durability and lifecycle testing including one of the largest and most sophisticated climatic wind tunnels on the planet. In this test chamber, wind speeds can exceed 240 kilometres per hour, temperatures range from -40 to +60°C and relative humidity ranges from 5 to 95 per cent. The climatic wind tunnel has a unique variable nozzle that can optimize the airflow from 7 to 13 square metres (and larger) allowing for an unprecedented range of vehicle and test property sizes. Coupled with this feature is a large flexible chassis dynamometer that is integrated into an 11.5-metre turntable. Now, for the first time anywhere, vehicles and test properties can be turned into the airstream under full operating conditions to facilitate crosswind development. The large open chamber has a readily reconfigurable solar array that will replicate the effects of the sun and is hydrogen-capable, allowing for alternative fuels and fuel cell development.
The IRTF spans five floors with space dedicated for research, education and training. It has offices, laboratories, conference rooms and common work areas that are available to rent. This facility will foster an environment for collaboration and interaction between industry, researchers and students.
ACE is a truly independent test facility that is commercially available to customers who are seeking to bring their ideas into a proof of concept and ready for market. In addition to conventional automotive applications, ACE is suitable for testing alternative fuel, hybrid and electric vehicles. It is large enough to accommodate trucks, tandem drive systems, full coach buses, light rail transit, aerospace, military and agricultural applications, wind turbines and solar panels. Furthermore, ACE could be used to train military personnel, rescue crews or competitive athletes, to carry out performance testing of outdoor survival gear. ACE also has the potential to assist the movie industry or test products that are subject to severe wind, humidity, snow, icing or desert heat.
ACE is available to rent by those with a need for its unique capabilities, including: manufacturers of all descriptions, start-up companies and researchers in Canada and from around the world. Clients can rent the entire facility or specific chambers at an hourly rate that is globally competitive.
ACE was developed in partnership with UOIT, General Motors of Canada, the Government of Ontario, the Government of Canada and the Partners for the Advancement of Collaborative Engineering Education (PACE). The total cost of the facility is approximately $100 million CDN.
Campus Facilities
- Campus Library 2004
- Business and Information Technology 2005
- Gordon Wiley Building
- Science Building 2004
- Simcoe Building
- Ontario Power Generation Engineering building 2006
- University Pavilion (UP Building)
- Campus Tennis Centre 2003
- Campus Ice Centre 2005
- Campus Athletic Centre
- Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre 2007
- Polonsky Commons
- General Motors Automotive Centre of Excellence (2011)
- Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre (2011)
Board Members
- Lyn McLeod 2002-2008
- Perrin Beatty 2008–present
Presidents/Vice-Chancellor
- Dr Gary Polonsky 2002-2006
- Dr Ronald Bordessa 2006–2011
- Dr Tim McTiernan 2011–Present
See also
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology Ridgebacks
- UOIT Engineering Students' Society
- List of Ontario Universities
- Ontario Student Assistance Program
- Higher education in Ontario
- Canadian Interuniversity Sport
- Canadian government scientific research organizations
- Canadian university scientific research organizations
- Canadian industrial research and development organizations
References
- ↑ "UReg11_Sep10-03.pdf". Retrieved 2009-09-13.
- ↑ "UOIT recognizes donor generosity with interactive digital display". University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "UOIT Fast Facts". University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ↑ "UOIT enrolment increases tenfold in 10 years". University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
- ↑ "Common University Data Ontario". University of Ontario Institute of Technology - Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ↑ Logo colours | Logo
- ↑ University of Ontario Institute of Technology Act, 2002
- ↑ Pound, Richard W. (2005). 'Fitzhenry and Whiteside Book of Canadian Facts and Dates'. Fitzhenry and Whiteside.
- ↑ "History". About UOIT. University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
- ↑ Durham's university achieves new enrolment figures
- ↑ Logistics Education
- ↑ UOIT unveils plans for Centre for Cybercrime Research
- ↑ Campus Athletic Centre expansion well underway
- ↑ UOIT celebrates grand opening of Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre expansion | 2007
- ↑ Connect@UOIT - UOIT - List by faculty
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 UOIT Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Automotive, Manufacturing & Mechanical
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 Chris Collins HCI and Visualization Research.
- ↑ 18.0 18.1 UOIT HCI and Game Science Group
- ↑ http://chronicle.durhamcollege.ca/story.php?id=3077&issue=
- ↑ http://chronicle.durhamcollege.ca/story.php?id=7033&issue=
- ↑ http://chronicle.durhamcollege.ca/story.php?id=2461&issue=
- ↑ http://www.your-sa.ca/20102011-clubs-list/
External links
- Official website
- University of Ontario Institute of Technology Act, 2002
- Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada profile
- Official Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Website
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