University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering
The University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering offers graduates a first-class education in engineering and computer science, preparing them to skilfully practise their profession, continue with studies in their discipline or pursue a career in a related area like business, law or medicine. The Faculty encourages an entrepreneurial mindset among its students. It also strives to offer a learning environment based on excellence and innovation, ethics and a sense of responsibility to society.
The Faculty of Engineering has three departments (Chemical and Biological Engineering, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering) and two schools (the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Engineering Design and Teaching Innovation), which offer 42 undergraduate and 39 graduate programs. Over 130 regular or tenure-track professors, 120 support staff members, many part-time and associate professors and contractual employees contribute to the education of over 4,500 undergraduate and 2,200 graduate students.
Not only is the Faculty home to the highest number of graduate students, while experiencing outstanding growth within the University, but it is also a research leader. Research excellence and diversity, central to its mission, are reflected in its many collaborations with private industry and government research labs. Its professors, including 13 research chairs and members of six research institutes, work in varied fields, and the results of their efforts improve many areas of our daily lives.
For more on the Faculty of Engineering and the University of Ottawa, go to www.uOttawa.ca.
Since the appointment of former Dean Jacques Beauvais as Provost and Vice-President, Academic Affairs, the position of Dean of the Faculty of Engineering has been vacant. An interim Dean was named. The University of Ottawa is therefore looking for applicants for the position of:
Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
Opportunities and challenges
As one of Canada’s major research universities, the University of Ottawa strongly promotes graduate studies and research. Thus, the dean must ensure the development of research- and graduate studies-related activities to further enhance the Faculty’s and the University’s reputation and visibility both within Canada and around the world. The person appointed to the position will have the opportunity to lead initiatives linked to the rapid advance of new technologies, and to increase opportunities to collaborate with industry and the business community, particularly through its campus in Kanata North, the largest industrial park in Canada. As the Faculty seeks to raise its profile and increase its accomplishments both in research and program development, particularly in graduate studies, it must face challenges that often stem from factors outside its control. Constraints imposed by government policy on university funding and admission regulations regarding international student cohorts’ countries come to mind in this regard. The Faculty would benefit from a dean who can, along with its dynamic actors, create new development possibilities and diversified revenue sources.