Industry committee  First of all, I would like to declare that I have never made fun of Sir Wilfrid Laurier University. I have tremendous respect for their great business program and their arts program. They are a wonderful partner for the Waterloo region. On your question, I do have a lot of deali

Industry committee  Unless it's on the IT side—

Industry committee  Batteries.

Industry committee  As well as AC and direct plug-in, depending on the device.

Industry committee  I think since Waterloo started the co-op 60 years ago, there are at least 30 co-op models across Canada, and they're all different. The Waterloo co-op program is unique in the sense that it is quite difficult. It's very challenging. The students in engineering, 100% of the studen

Industry committee  That's something we definitely would love to explore and look at, because we have a really strong capability in advanced manufacturing. The thing is, the professors' time is always the issue. What we do need is the ground to collaborate. I'm being given the sign to stop talking,

Industry committee  Leah, please go ahead.

Industry committee  I'll be quick, but a lot of that comes from the fact that we have a co-op program. We have nearly 5,000 employers. In engineering law, it's 1,700 employers. The relationships we have with them have been long lasting, long-standing. We have worked with GM for 25 years. It takes a

Industry committee  I think the better person to ask is either Leslie Klein himself, who is an engineer, the idea guy, but the technology development was provided by Professor Ali Safavi-Naeini, who is an electrical engineer in Waterloo. The depth of the technology has been developed over five year

Industry committee  Go ahead.

Industry committee  I don't know whether the answer is one or the other. I do think, however, that like everything in the sector, manufacturing is going to be driven a lot by technology evolution. I think the future products are going to need some form of embedded technology, sensors or things that

Industry committee  First, perhaps I could take a minute to assure Ms. Olson that we will have a rural antenna: give it two years. I think that's very important. To address your very important question, when the IoT gets pervasive, and it will, you'll have different layers of security problems. You

Industry committee  It's an antenna that has a satellite base. The reason it's so expensive right now is that you need a fibre connection to get the physical antenna up. We want to have a mobile antenna so that it can be mounted onto a vehicle—no wires—and then it can go to rural Canada and you'll b

Industry committee  One of the reasons we've managed to do this is our IP policy. We've had this for the last 60 years, which is the age of the university. When a professor has an idea and works with a company, he or she has the freedom to decide how to share the IP. It could be all professors. It c

Industry committee  Thank you for that question. Before I came here, I had a one-hour meeting with Leslie Klein, the CEO of C-COM Satellite Systems, which is right here in Ottawa. Mr. Klein has done research with us in the area of antenna systems for the last few years. Recently, together with the