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 u

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 v

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

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 l

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