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Management Sciences professors Samir Elhedhli, Fatma Gzara, and Mehrdad Pirnia were recently featured in an informative event that delivered practical insights for industry on the application of artificial intelligence to address supply chain challenges.

Dr. Kourosh Malek, a Management Sciences PhD alumnus and currently Head of AI and Data Analytics at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH was also a featured panelist. 

Shoukry Saleh, a retired faculty member who helped build a Waterloo Engineering department, died on August 9 at the age of 91.

In 1968, he was one of four professors recruited by Archibald Sherburne, then dean of Waterloo Engineering, to establish the Faculty’s management sciences department.

Instrumental to its launch the following year, Saleh served as department chair from September 1974 to August 1978.

Sheha Akbari, who will graduate from management engineering on June 19 2021, is passionate about making a difference to Afghan women and youth. To say she made the most of her five years as a Waterloo Engineering student could just be an understatement. Read the full story on Waterloo News. 

Management Engineering and Management Sciences students have once again won top prizes  at the Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) student paper competition. They presented their papers at the 2021 CORS conference, held remotely.

Today the Faculty of Engineering has shared detailed and program specific class format plans for September 2021 with our incoming and current students.

Each department has posted details in a LEARN course for current undergraduate engineering students and in a TEAMS channel for current architecture students. These details are based on the information we shared with the Registrar’s Office, which is responsible for University-wide schedules and classroom space.

A management engineering student’s company has raised $2.3 million in seed financing to help fuel its Ontario expansion.

Aaron Paul and Waterloo science alumnus Jaden Pereira co-founded TyltGO to connect couriers to retail clients that range from meal kit providers, florists and pharmacies.

The Industry 4.0 student team recently ran the third annual "I4 Case Competition". The compeititon reached 158 participants, organized in 36 teams from high-schools across Canada, who competed for $2000 in prize money. 

Management Sciences professors Samir Elhedhli and Hossein Abouee Mehrizi recently participated in an Alumni Speaker Series event on the challenge of delivering the COVID-19 vaccines. 

The Department of Management Sciences recently held a virtual "Ask-Me-Anything" event for prospective graduate students. It featured Profs. Rob Duimering, Sibel Alumur Alev, and Lukasz Golab, and current graduate students Aliaa Alnaggar and Jordan Nickel. Watch a recording of the event here: