Faculty

Thursday, February 17, 2022 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Research Talks with Michaëlle Jean

Join us for a special edition of Research talks, "Black History is World History: From Moment to Global Movement," featuring Michaëlle Jean, University of Waterloo Chancellor, St. Paul’s University College and former Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

Please register to receive a link to this virtual event.

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

WIN Thematic Seminar: Electrical double layer as a medium to control material synthesis

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) has four main thematic research areas; Smart and Function Materials, Connected Devices, Next Generation Energy Systems and Therapeutics and Theranostics. To showcase the work going on within these areas, we will be holding monthly WIN Thematic Seminars featuring our members and their research group members.

For this event in the series, Professor Vivek Maheshwari and postdoc Hua Fan from the Next Generation Energy Systems theme will be giving a seminar on "Electrical double layer as a medium to control material synthesis"

A civil and environmental engineering professor at Waterloo Engineering has had his research chair renewed for another five years by the federal government.

James Craig, the Canada Research Chair in Hydrological Modelling and Analysis, will receive $500,000 over five years to continue his work. Click here to continue reading this story.

Congratulations to Doug Hirst and Liping Fu from Civil and Environmental Engineering on your outstanding accomplishments.

The winners of the Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award were recently announced along with the honorees of other major Faculty awards.

Congratulations Adrian Simone on your win from the fall 2021 Concept $5k pitch competition.

Three student teams featuring members from Waterloo Engineering took home $5,000 each from the recent Concept $5k pitch competition for fall 2021.

MicroBuild Masonry, Learnlist and Hydro House were among eight finalists competing for four prizes at the virtual event, which is staged three times a year.

Congratulations Zaid Al-Sabbag, a 2025 Civil and Environmental Engineering student from the Faculty of Engineering (co-supervised by Chul Min Yeum and Sriram Narasimhan), won first place in Waterloo.AI GRADflix Competition with his research on augmented reality and it’s uses in infrastructure maintenance. Watch the video to see the use of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 and image processing in “interactive segmentation”. Click here to continue reading this article.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Erin Mahoney,
Commissioner of Environmental Services for York Region and Douglas Wright
Engineer-in-Residence will present: York Region’s One Water Story…
recognizing the value of water in all its forms.