Engineering will score big with new learning technology centre

Posted March 26, 1999


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - March 24, 1999
99-03-14-ENG

Engineering Will Score Big With New
Learning Technology

The official opening of the Innovative Teaching and
Learning Centre (ITLC), University of Saskatchewan, will
arm students on and off campus with improved learning
technology. President Ivany and Dean Franco Berruti,
College of Engineering, will be on hand for the opening
on Friday, March 26, in the Engineering Building. After a
brief ceremony, faculty members will demonstrate how
new techniques and technologies will improve student
learning on campus and throughout the province.

?The ITLC has two objectives,? says Dean Berruti. ?We
are using an improved delivery system for instruction
which will first, improve teaching for the professors and
second, improve the learning process for students
province-wide.?

The ITLC provides facilities and support to help faculty
harness new technologies which will make engineering
education more effective, efficient, and accessible. This
project will improve the quality of engineering
education that takes place on-campus, in students?
homes, and in communities throughout the province.

The Cameco Access Program for Engineering and Science
(CAPES) is one of the ITLC initiatives and is aimed at
improving access to engineering education. Sponsored
by Cameco Corporation, CAPES works to enable more
residents of Saskatchewan?s North, and other remote
parts of the province, to pursue an education in
engineering and sciences. CAPES works to remove
barriers identified by northern leaders and educators by
raising the awareness of the importance of science and
engineering and offering programs at La Ronge to help
students manage the transition from small schools in
remote communities to the University in Saskatoon.

Cameco Corporation contributed $1 million as a founding
member of the ITLC and helped to establish the CAPES
program. Other sponsors of the ITLC, many of which will
be represented at the opening, are PanCanadian
Petroleum, the Donald Roy Seaman Foundation, Hitachi
Canadian Industries, Canadian Occidental Petroleum,
Fording Coal, Daniels Wingerak Engineering, GE Ground
Engineering, the Estate of Donald Alan Dew, SaskTel, IBM
Canada, JD Mollard and Associates, and. J.D Mollard.

The media are invited to attend the opening starting at
2:30 p.m. with a plaque unveiling and the announcement
of the official name of the ITLC. Demonstrations of new
techniques and technologies will follow. Ceremonies
will be held in Rm 1B71, College of Engineering,
University of Saskatchewan.

For more information, please contact:

Franco Berruti
Dean, College of Engineering
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-5273

OR

Keith Jeffrey
Director, ITLC
University of Saskatchewan
(306) 966-4831