New international opportunities for UOIT students and researchers

New doors will soon open to expanded global hands-on learning opportunities for students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT).

On April 4, the university signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Chandigarh University (CU), a private university in northwestern India whose research expertise and industry partnerships complement those of UOIT.

Areas for co-operation include:

• Two-way student mobility, with the possibility of sending UOIT students to undertake internships with CU corporate partners such as Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, and Wipro.
• Potential for collaborative degree programs, joint supervision of graduate students, and placement of UOIT students with companies in Greater Mohali, Punjab in India.
• Exploration of short-term faculty mobility opportunities to CU.
• Research and development projects, knowledge sharing and co-publishing.

Participating UOIT faculties:

• Faculty of Business and Information Technology
• Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Science

With more than 20,000 students in nearly 70 undergraduate and graduate programs, CU’s strengths include: animation and multimedia (for game development), education and teacher training, legal studies, media studies, business, biotechnology, forensic science and toxicology, medical laboratory sciences and engineering. CU’s research expertise includes cloud-based applications, big data analytics, information security and business analytics.

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“As one of Canada’s newest research universities, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology is committed to expanding transformative research and providing outstanding student academic and experiential learning opportunities with its partners around the globe. The agreement with Chandigarh University paves the way for the development of student exchanges, student internships, and new faculty research endeavours between both universities.” 
-Michael Owen, PhD, Vice-President, Research, Innovation and International, University of Ontario Institute of Technology 

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