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Industry committee When I came into this position, a colleague of mine who also ran a professional degree gave me some really good advice, which is that my program needed to be industry-relevant but also had to be research-informed. If you build a program that only responds to industry, you end up reproducing that industry, and in the case of the video game industry, reproduction is not a viable option.
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Richard Smith
Industry committee I'd say it's modest at best. For example, if you were hearing from schools of engineering, they would have a national council and a professional association and all that sort of stuff to deliver a coordinated effort. I know the people who run the other programs. We've gone to visit them.
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Richard Smith
Industry committee Yes. We have the traditional graduate student, I guess, who has just finished their graduate degree or is maybe one or two years out. Our average age is I think about 27. We have students in their thirties and forties and actually even one or two in their fifties, so I think for a number of people it's....
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Richard Smith
Industry committee We're ourselves a copy of a program called ETC at Carnegie Mellon University. About three years ago, the University of Waterloo launched a program that's based in Stratford and is very similar to ours. It's called “master of technology and digital entrepreneurship” or something like that.
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Richard Smith
Industry committee Good afternoon, everyone, it's my pleasure to join you here. Chairperson, honourable members, and witnesses, thanks for including me in this committee's activities. I especially appreciate the opportunity to appear by video conference and avoid the travel. I'm a professor from Simon Fraser University, but my role is as a director of the Centre for Digital Media, which is a joint venture of four universities: the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
March 24th, 2014Committee meeting
Dr. Richard Smith