OTTAWA – Carleton University has opened the ‘RIM Teaching and Collaborative Research Centre’ in a move designed to keep its engineering and industrial design students at the forefront of smart phone technology and design.
With support from Research In Motion, the centre will be used for research, teaching, outreach activities, technology demonstrations and short courses such as application development seminars for students and researchers working on mobile technology and wireless communication. RIM will equip the centre with software, BlackBerry smart phones and PlayBook tablets on which students can experiment and develop apps.
RIM has partnered with Carleton in a number of research projects in recent years.
“The RIM Teaching and Collaborative Research Centre continues the mutually beneficial relationship established between Carleton and RIM,” said Dave Dietz, RIM’s director of university relations, in the announcement. “By working with Carleton’s outstanding students and researchers, we are finding important new opportunities, including innovations in industrial design, speech and audio processing, health-care applications and much more. We look forward to the opportunities ahead in this new centre.”
