Wasted food can be affordably turned into a clean substitute for fossil fuels.
New technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo engineers natural fermentation to produce a biodegradable chemical that can be refined as a source of energy.
Congratulations to the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) UW Chapter, placed 2nd out of 26 schools for the 2019 Presidents Best Chapter Award. This award will be given out at the Student Chapter Leaders Workshop during the CSCE annual conference in Laval, Montreal on Friday, June 14, 2019. Once again Congratulations to Grant Mitchell, Sehrish Ahmad and Team Waterloo!!!
The 3MT challenges competitors to use 1 static slide and 3 minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their graduate research to a non-specialist audience.Haya Almutairi, a PhD Candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering, was chosen to represent Waterloo at the Ontario Provincial 3MT finals. Haya advanced from the provincial finals to become one of twelve Canadian National 3MT finalists.To read more and to vote click here
Michelle Liu carefully plans each hour of each day three weeks in advance to figure out where she needs to be and when.
Between volunteering up to 40 hours a month in several different roles on and off campus and keeping on top of her graduate studies, she constantly checks her changing calendar.
“I call it 80 productive hours a week, divided between volunteering and my studies,” Liu says with a laugh.
Professor Emeritus G. Wayne Brodland and his students created a video last summer (2018) that has gone viral and has been viewed a half a million times.
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The Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy is pleased to host Umar Waqas, Director of Engineering Services for Energy+ Inc. on April 24.
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Slobodan Simonovic, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Western University, will present "Use of quantitative resilience in managing urban infrastructure response to natural hazards."
On Saturday March 16 from 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m., the University of Waterloo and Impact Alliance will be teaming up to host the Global Solutions Conference!
As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Professor Martyn Clark, Associate Director at the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan and Editor-in-Chief of Water Resources Research, will present "The Evolution of Process-Based Hydrologic Models: Historical Challenges and the Collective Quest for Physical Realism."
Come watch the finalists of the 3MT faculty-based heats present their research in the 3MT university-wide final competition.