Full professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and researcher member of 3IT, Paul Charette has been appointed director of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Technological Innovation (3IT) by the Management Committee of the University of Sherbrooke. His mandate will begin on June 1, succeeding Professor Richard Arès, vice-dean for development and partnerships.
Holder of a doctorate from McGill University and with postdoctoral experience at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and seven years of experience in an industrial environment, including four years in a startup in California, Professor Charette has been teaching at the Faculty of Engineering since 2002 and evolving within the 3IT ecosystem since 2012. He is co-holder of the NSERC-Teledyne DALSA Industrial Research Chair for next-generation MEMS and microphotonics.
“Thanks to its exceptional staff and world-class infrastructure, as well as its flagship multidisciplinary and collaborative operating model, 3IT is, in my opinion, one of the best-positioned research centers in the world to address the major societal needs facing we are facing it. I am honored to be entrusted with the leadership of the Institute and am very excited to take on this great challenge.” Paul G. Charette
