The
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
(UOIT) is located in Oshawa, Ontario
and shares its campus with Durham College
. The university was founded in 2002 and
accepted its first students in 2003, making it one of Canada's
newest
universities. All undergraduate
programs require students to lease a
Lenovo
Thinkpad laptop PC from the university as a condition of
enrollment, making it Ontario's only laptop-based university.
Faculty also encourages students to use their laptops to complete
assignments, perform laboratory research and interact with faculty
during
lectures. UOIT offers a range of
undergraduate programs, and graduate programs in Science,
Engineering, Health and Information Technology. The UOIT campus is
approximately 400 acres (1.6
km2) in the northern part of
Oshawa.
Trent University
also offers a small full-time program on the same
campus and offers a number of elective courses to undergraduate
students at UOIT.
History
UOIT was created in 2002 by the
University of Ontario Institute of Technology Act,
2002 as a public, career-focused, research-intensive university
emphasizing science and technology, and as part of the Ontario
government’s initiative to create more spaces in postsecondary
institutions for the
double cohort.
UOIT's new slogan, "Challenge, Innovate, Connect" was unveiled in
June 2006.
UOIT accepted over 900 students in 2003 and total enrolment was
over 5,000 in the 2007–2008 school year, making it the fastest
growing university in Ontario. The student population is expected
to grow to 6,500 by 2010.
Construction on the university's first buildings began in 2002. The
facilities currently include a library shared with Durham College,
the Science Building, and the Business and IT Building as well as a
state of the art virtual hospital for nursing students. The Ontario
Power Generation Engineering Building opened in September 2006. The
residences for UOIT are Simcoe Village and South Village. The
Automotive Centre of Excellence will be built adjacent the
Ontario Power Generation
Engineering Building and is scheduled to open in September 2009.
Plans have been announced for the Centre for Cybercrime Research
which will be a separate, permanent location on campus and will be
dedicated to leading-edge research and the training of graduate and
undergraduate students in various aspects of cybercrime. In
addition, an expansion to the athletic facilities, funded largely
by students, was completed in September 2007.
Programs
UOIT has seven faculties, each offering several programs.
| Faculty
of Business and Information Technology |
Faculty of Criminology, Justice and Policy
Studies |
- Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) - BCom (Hons)
- Accounting
- E-Commerce
- Finance
- Marketing
- Human Resources Management Concentration
- BIT (Hons)
- Game Development & Entrepreneurship
- Networking and IT Security
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- Finance
- Marketing
- International Business
- Logistics and Supply Chain Managment
- Master of Information Technology Security
(MITS)
|
- BA (Hons) in Criminology and Justice
- Comprehensive Program
- Criminal Justice specialization
- Gender, Sexualities and Justice specialization
- Race, Ethnicity and Justice specialization
- Youth, Crime and Justice specialization
- Bridge Program
- BA (Hons) in Legal Studies
- Comprehensive Program
- Alternative Dispute Resolution specialization
- Human Rights Law specialization
- Information Law specialization
- Legal studies minors
- Bridge Program
- BA (Hons) in Legal Studies - Concurrent
programs
- Concurrent with Legal Administration diploma (Durham
College)
- Concurrent with Court and Tribunal Agent diploma (Durham
College)
- BA (Hons) in Public Policy
- Master of Arts (MA) in Criminology
- Thesis option
- Non-Thesis option
|
| Faculty of
Education |
Faculty of
Energy Systems and Nuclear Science |
- BA (Hons) in Communication
- Comprehensive program
- Commerce and Marketing specialization
- Digital Media specialization
- Health Sciences Communication specialization
- Science and Technology specialization
- BEd, 1-year Consecutive program,
Intermediate/Senior
- BEd, 1-year Consecutive program,
Primary/Junior
- BEd/BSc (Honours) (Intermediate/Senior), 5-year
concurrent
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Computer Studies
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Other teachable combinations:[38345]
- Master of Education (MEd)
- Graduate Diploma in Education and Digital
Technologies
|
- BASc (Hons) in Nuclear Power
- BEng (Hons) in Energy Systems Engineering
- BSc (Hons)in Health Physics and Radiation
Science
- BEng (Hons) in Nuclear Engineering
- BEng and Mgt (Hons) in Nuclear Engineering and
Management
- Master of Applied Science (MASc)
- Master of Engineering (MEng)
- Graduate Diploma in Nuclear Technology
- Fuel, Materials and Chemistry
- Reactor Systems
- Operation and Maitenance
- Safety, Licensing and Regulatory Affairs
- Health Physics
- Radiological Applications
|
| Faculty of
Engineering and Applied Science |
Faculty
of Health Sciences |
- BEng (Hons) in Automotive Engineering
- BEng (Hons) in Electrical Engineering
- BEng (Hons) in Manufacturing Engineering
- Comprehensive Program
- Energy Engineering option
- Mechatronics option
- BEng (Hons)in Software Engineering
- BEng and Mgt (Hons)in Automotive Engineering and
Management
- BEng and Mgt (Hons) in Electrical Engineering and
Management
- BEng and Mgt (Hons) in Manufacturing Engineering and
Management
- BEng and Mgt (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and
Management
- Comprehensive Mechanical Engineering program
- Energy Engineering option
- Mechatronics Engineering option
- BEng and Mgt (Hons) in Software Engineering and
Management
- Automotive Engineering
- Master of Applied Science (MASc)
- Master of Engineering (MEng)
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Master of Applied Science (MASc)
- Master of Engineering (MEng)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Mechanical Engineering
- Master of Applied Science (MASc)
- Master of Engineering (MEng)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
|
- Bachelor of Allied Health Sciences (Honours) - BAHSc
(Hons)
- Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) - BHSc
(Hons)
- Comprehensive program
- Health Information Management specialization
- Kinesiology specialization
- Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) in Medical
Laboratory Science - BHSc (Hons)
- Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Honours) - BScN
(Hons)
- Collaborative
- RPN to BScN (full-time program)
- RPN to BScN (part-time program)
- Master of Health Sciences (MHSc)
|
| Faculty of
Science |
- BSc (Hons) in Applied and Industrial
Mathematics
- BSc (Hons) in Biological Science
- Complementary Studies
- Environmental Toxicology specialization
- Life Sciences specialization
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology specialization
- BSc (Hons) in Chemistry
- Chemistry Comprehensive program
- Biological Chemistry specialization
- Pharmaceutical Chemistry specialization
- BSc (Hons) in Computing Science
- Computing Science Comprehensive program
- Digital Forensics specialization
- Digital Media specialization
- BSc (Hons) in Forensic Science
- BSc (Hons) in Physical Science
- BSc (Hons) in Physics
- Physics Comprehensive program
- Energy and the Environment specialization
- Forensics Physics specialization
- Medical Physics specialization
- BSc and Mgt (Hons) in Biological Science and
Management
- Complementary Studies
- Environmental Toxicology specialization
- Life Sciences specialization
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology specialization
- BSc and Mgt (Hons) in Physical Science and
Management
- BSc (Hons)/BEd (Concurrent)
(Intermediate/Senior)
- Applied Bioscience
- Master of Science (MSc)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Computer Science
- Master of Science (MSc)
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
- Materials Science
- Modelling and Computational Science
|
Research
Faculty members are involved in research in a variety of areas.
These include:
- Statistical and Array Processing
- Wireless Communications and Signal Processing
- Satellite Communications
- Pervasive Computing
- Sensor and Information Networks
- Computer Forensics and Network Security
- Web Modelling and Optimization
- Computer Networking
- Networked and Distributed Control Systems
- Haptics and Virtual Reality (Laboratory for Advanced User
Interfaces and Virtual Reality)
- Medical and Mobile Robotics
- Automatic/Intelligent Sensing and Control
- Power Engineering
- Vehicle dynamics
- Fuel cells and hydrogen
- Automotive aerodynamics
- Noise, vibrations and harshness
- Automotive materials and manufacturing
- Chassis design
- Automotive software and system modeling
- Alternative fuels
- Hybrid vehicles
- Automotive systems
- Dynamics, vibration and noise
- Engineering design
- Energy, thermodynamics, heat transfer and fluid mechanics
- Manufacturing and materials
- Mechanics of solids and structures
- Robotics, automation and controls
- Semiconductor physics and nanotechnology
- Solar cells
Student Housing Controversy
In the last week of September 2007, the
Durham Regional Police
Service entered the homes of university and college students
living off campus in search of leasing agreements.
The city of Oshawa, Ontario obtained 17 warrants to search these homes, police
and bylaw officers picking the locks and arriving
unannounced. This all took place under the suspicion that
the residences were illegal boarding houses.
As well the City of Oshawa introduced a new bylaw on February 18,
2008 limiting the number of bedrooms in a rental home to four and
forcing landlords to pay a $1,000 fee, driving up the cost of
affordable housing for students. The bylaw did not take into
account landlords who live on the property, and only pertained to
the areas directly surrounding the school. As well families renting
to students were exempt from the bylaw.
These actions have been seen by the student community as outright
discrimination. In an open letter to
the
Toronto Star,
Barbara Hall, chief of the
Ontario Human Rights
Commission, stated "I urge Oshawa City Council members to look
closely at what has been proposed, to apply a sound city-wide
planning rationale, and to consider the human rights impact of its
decision." Many students have seen this as encouragement to file
human rights complaints against the city for age
discrimination.
Some local residents however, are still unhappy with the growing
student population and have also begun protesting of a planned
student housing apartment. Accusing the new construction of
cramming too many students in too small an area.
The University of Ontario Institute of Technology plans on building
a new on-campus residence that will be able to house an additional
350 students.
Name Controversy
Much debate has been made over the name choice of the school as
renaming the university has been in review for more than a year.
"It's quite confusing to the public because it contains the words
`university' and `institute' and the public doesn't really
understand why it's necessary to have both these words and what the
differences are between those two words," says Ron Bordessa,
president of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. The
name also has been part of a legal dispute. Oshawa city counselor,
Robert Lutczyk, registered a copyright for the "University of
Ontario Institute of Technology" in 2005, and recently tried to
forbid several publications from printing the name under threat of
legal action.
Campus Facilities
- Campus Library 2004
- Business and Information Technology 2005
- Gordon Wiley Building
- Science Building 2004
- Simcoe Building
- Ontario Power Generation Engineering building 2006
- University Pavilion (UP Building)
- Campus Tennis Centre 2003
- Campus Ice Centre 2005
- Campus Athletic Centre
- Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre 2007
- Polonsky Commons
- The Automotive Centre of Excellence (open by mid-2010)
- Energy Systems and Nuclear Science Research Centre (open
2010)
Board Members
Presidents/Vice-Chancellor
See also
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