The NCIT – A world-class broadband engineering institute

1. A Successful College/Industry Partnership Algonquin College and the National Capital Institute of Telecommunications Dr. Robert Crawhall President The NCIT – A world-class broadband engineering institute

2. An Outline of a Collaboration • What is the NCIT? • The Tele-Haptic Project • Building a Partnership • Lessons Learned • Looking Forward

3. The NCIT develops telecommunications technologies through collaboration. • We emphasize demonstration and commercialization • We are working with world-class leaders to commercialize a suite of capabilities into a variety of industry sectors

4. Members Alcatel Nortel Networks QNX Rational Communications Research Centre Canada National Research Centre Canada Algonquin College University of Ottawa Carleton University OCRI NCIT: Fourth Pillar Organization The NCIT is a fourth pillar organization, an innovation-enabler and multiplier organization, complementing business, industry and government and education by bringing together diverse stakeholder groups to focus in collaborative opportunities. Research Partners MPB Technologies Pangaea New Media SION International X-Ray Braodband Handshake Interactive BUL/Bell Mobility Funding Sources CFI OIT ORDCF Initiatives Fellowships Ottawa Photonics Research Alliance (OPRA) Ottawa Wireless Research Alliance (OWRA) Photonics Prize

5. CompetenciesBuilt on 4 Thrust Areas • Multimedia • Networking • Wireless • Fiber Optics

6. NCIT*net Our members and research partners are connected via NCIT*net. A three-wave length metropolitan advanced research network spanning the city.

7. Tele-Haptics at Algonquin A Case Study

8. NCIT and Tele-haptics Touch; The Third Human Sense on the Internet

9. AChain of Events • A global set of players explore Haptics independently • Kevin Smith from CSIRO sabbatical at NRC • identifies Francis Bogsanyi and key companies • NCIT draws together Ottawa interest in Haptics • Project defined and taken to tech committee • OIT funding allows prompt purchase of equipment • Student projects defined within Algonquin

10. IEEE International Workshop

11. Working with Canarie

12. Pangaea Collaborative Environment

13. Global Visibility Ottawa and Australian Research Institutes join forces to extend touch over global networks and industrialise the Internet Montréal 19 November 2002The National Capital Institute of Telecommunications (NCIT) and the Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIR0) in partnership with several Canadian technology companies are industrialising the Internet by capitalising on the ability to "touch" over a network. In a recent demonstration, a surgeon in Australia guided a trainee in Canada 16.000 km away to perform a simulated cholecystectomy, an operation to remove the gall bladder. …

14. Current Status • State-of-the-Art Lab at Algonquin • 10 Students involved in 2 projects • 3 companies tightly engaged • Demonstration capability for the NCIT builds momentum • Basis of several follow-on project proposals

15. Algonquin Assessment • Generates interest in applied research from students and faculty • Gives students cutting edge job relevant experience • Demonstrates to industry what colleges can do in the area of applied research • Attracts additional funding opportunities • Leads to applied research activities with new partners • Leads to collaboration with other research institutes

16. Algonquin College & the NCIT; Building a Partnership Dr. Robert Gillet, President Algonquin College - NCIT Board of Directors Dr. Jack Treuhaft – Director, Director of Applied Research and Development, Algonquin College NCIT Technology Committee Dr. Maike Miller, , Seconded from Algonquin College, Vice-President Research Alliances NCIT Francis Bogsanyi – NCIT Researcher, Algonquin College

17. NCIT – A Collaborative Web • NCIT Project Management • International Partnerships – CSIRO Australia • Demonstrations – Canarie 2002, HAVE 2002, IST 2003 • Commercialization – SME’s, Industrial Users • Partners – Federal Laboratories, Universities

18. Lessons Learned • College plays an important part in a web of innovation • Chose to manage the college program as a separate entity from the university program • Colleges can respond quickly and imaginatively • Employment structure of Professors and researchers is very different from the university • IPR structure is closer to industrial • Relationship of students to research is dependent on skills and project structure • Many industrial users are more likely to employ a college graduate

19. Looking Forward • Build on this model for other technologies • Create linkages to other colleges • Increase the engagement between College and Federal Labs • Develop relationship with universities • Build a more formal model for engagement between students and industry • Ensure critical mass for long term program

20. Thank You