{{Short description|Canadian electrical engineer and entrepreneur}} {{for|the Australian footballer |Rod Coutts (footballer)}}
<!-- Deleted image removed: frame|left|Rod Couts {{Deletable image-caption|Thursday, 18 June 2009|date=May 2012}} --> '''Rod (J. Roderick) Coutts''' is a Canadian entrepreneur and a co-founder of Teklogix International. He was born in Cookstown, Ontario. Coutts graduated from University of Waterloo in 1964 with a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Electrical Engineering.<ref>"Coutts graduated from Waterloo in 1964 with a bachelor of applied science degree in electrical engineering." [http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=2632]</ref> <br /> In 2000, Coutts donated an estimated $7 million in shares to the University of Waterloo, as his tribute to the school.<ref>{{cite news |author=Jim Fox, John Morris | title= Graduate Rod Coutts gives ... to UW | date= 2000-11-28 | publisher= UW News Bureau | url =http://newsrelease.uwaterloo.ca/news.php?id=1553 | work = News Release | access-date = 2009-02-08 }} </ref> <br /> <blockquote>"My family has had a lot of good fortune over the years and the University of Waterloo had a lot to do with that," says Coutts. "This is my chance to give something back."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.engineering.uwaterloo.ca/news/AnnualReport/engineering.html|title = News}}</ref></blockquote> In return for his generosity, the University has named a building after him: J.R. Coutts Engineering Lecture Hall (commonly referred to as Rod Coutts Hall, or RCH).<ref>http://www.engineering.uwaterloo.ca/news/AnnualReport/engineering.html Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Annual Report 2007</ref> Since then, Coutts has continued supporting the university by funding bursaries and scholarships.
In 2007, Rod Coutts received his Doctor of Engineering (D.Eng.'07).
==Teklogix== Coutts was the founder of Teklogix International with four other young entrepreneurs: Lawrie Cragg, Al Vanderburgh, Cliff Bernard and Pete Halsall. The company focused on providing mobile workers with wireless data transmission and real-time data management within the logistics industry. Teklogix became Psion Teklogix in the year 2000, after it was purchased for $544 million (Cdn.) by U.K.-based Psion, started by David Potter.
Coutts met the other Teklogix founders while working at Ferranti International's Canadian division, Ferranti-Packard Electronics. Ferranti-Packard was known for projects related to FP6000 (Ferranti-Packard 6000, which became the ICL 1900), ReserVec, Back Up Interceptor Control (BUIC) for the United States Military, as well as Ferranti-Packard's drum memory systems. He worked closely on drum memory associated with the early warning radar system for North America. Coutts and the rest of the founding group left Ferranti-Packard and formed Teklogix in 1967.<ref>{{cite book|first=John N. |last=Vardalas |title=The Computer Revolution in Canada: Building National Technological Competence |year=2001 |publisher=MIT Press |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S8DFZtmLziMC&pg=PA165 |page=165 |isbn=9780262264983 |access-date=31 March 2019}}</ref>
==See also== * Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) * List of University of Waterloo people
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