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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.

Monday, October 18, 2021 12:00 am - Friday, October 22, 2021 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Women's Entrepreneurship Week 2021

The Conrad School is hosting a Speaker Series to celebrate Women Entrepreneurship Week 2021 with Montclair University and other institutions around the globe. Celebrate with us!

Join us virtually:

Strategizing Your Intellectual Property

Monday, October 18, 2021 12:00-1:00pm

Joanna Ma, B.A.Sc. (Elec. Eng.)(Hons.), J.D. 

Technology Lawyer, Bereskin & Parr LLP

Joanna Ma is a technology lawyer who specializes in patents and designs, and has an electrical engineering background. Her practice is predominantly focused on advising various-sized technology companies on developing intellectual property (IP) portfolios and strategies that are practical and aligned with their business goals, as well as on the enforcement of IP rights. She is experienced in drafting and prosecuting patent and design applications relating to software, electrical, and medical technologies. Joanna is also an IP advisor at several innovation centres across Ontario.


Social Entrepreneurship: Building for Social Impact

Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 12:00-1:00pm

Nada Basir, PhD, MSc, BSc

Assistant Professor at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business

Nada Basir is an Assistant Professor at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business. In her previous roles, she was an Assistant Professor at University of Ontario Institute of Technology and part of the founding team for Via Informatics (LocationGenius). Nada earned her PhD from the Schulich School of Business and her MSc from McGill University. She teaches BET 620 - Entrepreneurial Organizations and  BET - 420 Entrepreneurship for Social Impact.

We would like to Congratulate the following graduate students on their exceptional teaching evaluations from the Spring 2021 semester.

Spring 2021 CEE TA Award recipients:

  • Fook Yee Yang - MASc
  • Maxime Cleroux - MASc
  • Rui Wang - PhD
  • Tina Lin - MASc
  • Tyler Hull - PhD

Congratulations

Monday, September 13, 2021 8:00 am - Tuesday, October 12, 2021 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CORE (Centre for Ocular Research and Education) General Recruitment Promotion

We have a lot of different studies open right now that are recruiting study participants. Our schedule is quite flexible and works well with a busy students (or employees) schedule. Register below.

Our CEAGES (Civil, Environmental, Architectural and Geological Engineering Society) student chapter also serves as our CSCE (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering) student chapter and produces an annual report. The report was found to be the second best nationally. Congratulations CEAGES Team!

Congratulations to:

Thiruni Thirimanne, A-Society President                                               Jessica Elias, B-Society President