Industry committee  The administrative budget accounts for about 4.7% of our total budget. NSERC works in a very narrow field. Every budget cut is difficult for us, but at the same time it gives us the opportunity to be creative and innovative in changing our processes and modernizing our systems.

Industry committee  Thank you for the question. From the perspective of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, the increase to our base budget was $15 million per year. Those funds will be directed towards discovery-based research.

Industry committee  From the NSERC perspective, we're currently funding approximately 10,000 researchers and 30,000 students, both annually. About half of those students are supported through our people thrust, which is focused on scholarships and fellowships. The other half of those students are s

Industry committee  NSERC, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, one of three federal granting agencies, supports research in post-secondary institutions in the sciences and engineering, including supporting students and researchers through thrusts that are people-oriented, discover

Industry committee  I have just a comment. Mining is a special case because of the cyclical nature of the industry. It goes through boom and bust. If you come back to the theme of what attracts students, it's jobs and excitement. The Canada Mining Innovation Council is looking at this because they

Industry committee  There may be a big difference there between, say, consulting engineering firms and the engineering firms such as Pratt and Whitney or Bombardier, where a lot of in-house research is done. It's the same with IBM. In fact, part of the reason they justify their presence in the count

Industry committee  This is a pretty exceptional program because it gives researchers the opportunity to pursue research where it takes them, as opposed to being more in a project mode.

Industry committee  Our discovery grants program is our foundational program. It's a highly competitive program and supports about 10,000 university professors across the country. About 25% of those are in engineering-related fields. The funding, as I say, is competitive. Engineering is definitely a

Industry committee  Yes. These are really researchers who have demonstrated tremendous potential. Again, they can be in any field of science or engineering. Additional financing is provided to these people to accelerate, just as the word says, their research programs.

Industry committee  I don't think it's going to drive whether or not research is carried on in manufacturing. My comments were around how design is now a really important part of how manufacturing is done and how we need to ensure that we have that skill well imbedded in our engineers so that they a

Industry committee  Our experience reflects what Mr. Marceau just said, but there are different ways of getting internships. You can also have collaborative projects between university researchers and industry. Who does all of the work? It's the students, primarily. In that way the students, over a

Industry committee  To carry on in that vein, we have only five of these chairs in women in science and engineering. It's a huge load for these women to try to mentor so many students. We do also try to work through the schools. We have a PromoScience program, and although it's called PromoScience,

Industry committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for inviting me to talk about the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's role in addressing the shared challenges that impact engineering in Canada. NSERC is the national funding agency responsible for advancing post-secondary research and trai