Events - 2020

Winners from the faculty heats will compete in the 3MT university-wide finals to determine who will go on to the Provincial competition.

Artificial intelligence is changing how the most complex problems in the world are tackled. Whether it’s disease prevention, global refugee crisis mitigation, flood forecasting, marine protection, detecting diseased crops or fighting deforestation are AI has several applications in the developing world.

Have you ever wanted to join a hackathon, but thought it was only for coders? Well, Hack the Plastics wants you! Hack the Plastics is a broad skilled hackathon that does not require a coding based final product and will happen from 28th Feb – 1st March, 2020 at the University of Waterloo. You will be tackling ways to fight single use plastic pollution using microbes and producing a technical solution, business plan, and pitch.

Invited teams of Engineering students will be competing:

The Canadian Coastal Resilience Forum and the Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change are pleased to present our inaugural documentary screening of the film Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. A cinematic meditation on humanity’s massive reengineering of the planet, ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch is a four years in the making feature documentary film from the multiple-award winning team of Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier and Edward Burtynsky. The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, the Anthropocene Working Group who, after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that the Holocene Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth century, because of profound and lasting human changes to the Earth.

The theme of the inaugural Canadian Design Workshop is  Designing Engineering Design Education in Canada. Participation by attendees will be in the form of podium or poster sessions, grouped by theme. Two-page abstracts are due March 1, 2020.

If entrepreneurship is in your future, let us help you get there.

Join us in-person at the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business for an information session and Q&A with current MBET students and alumni. Learn more about the MBET program, have lunch, and get to know us.

Are you interested in learning more about Map the System? Join us for a lunch-hour info session to hear from past Map the System winners, and learn how to get started on your problem.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Sudhir Murthy will present: Redeploying existing wastewater treatment infrastructure for process intensification, resource management and energy neutrality.