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“It’s a place of limitless imagination.” This was the comment made by Professor Burak Kantarci from the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) regarding the Faculty of Engineering’s new Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Center, which was inaugurated in October.
The Faculty of Engineering’s new Smart Connected Vehicles Innovation Centre, located in uOttawa’s Kanata North campus, will focus on problem-solving issues related to the connectivity, physical and cyber security, decision making and sustainability of autonomous vehicles.
The launch of Alacrity Ottawa by the University of Ottawa and Wesley Clover could be considered the climax of a story years in the making. Consider, after all, the players. For almost 15 years, the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Engineering has worked with its generous alumni to develop a growing number of competitions, resources and curricula with a common goal – to educate engineering students on what it takes to bring a winning product to market. It’s not just about helping engineers understand the role they play in the innovation ecosystem, but also equipping them to become entre...