Centre for Academic Technology
The Centre for Academic Technology (CAT) provides campus wide leadership, direction, training, service and support for a broad range of technologies related to teaching, learning, research, and administration. As well, CAT provides a broad range of campus wide administrative services and supports in areas such as university events, interactive video conferencing, queue management, desktop, and digital signage systems. The department is also actively involved in researching and evaluating new technologies, as well as developing and integrating systems within its scope. To achieve its goals the department is organized into five specialized areas:
- Media Services
- Technical Support Services
- Desktop Services
- Video on Demand Classroom Production Studio
- Learning Management Support and Administration
Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), CAT is led by Loresto (Resty) Jimenez and is currently staffed with a team of 25 full-time technology specialists and 5 part-time technicians. The team is responsible for system testing, integration, architecture, design, provisioning, installation, implementation, monitoring, service, support, and client training in the following areas:
- Learning space systems
- Scientific instrumentation equipment and systems used in the physical sciences teaching and research labs
- Audio & video presentation and streaming systems
- Laptop and desktop computers
- Citrix virtual applications and virtual workstations
- Smartphones and tablets
- Enterprise client workstation applications
- Video conferencing systems (desktop web conference and multiple screen telepresence room)
- Campus wide digital signage systems
- Broadcast quality studio services
- Audio-visual services for events and conferences
- Digital video production, editing and distribution for course content creation, knowledge mobilization, training, major events and university promotions
- Learning Management System (Nexus) with integrated video on demand platform and voice transcription
- Design and fabrication of custom devices and equipment
- 3D printing and scanning
- Academic machine shop services