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New Research Data Management Guide launched to support researchers and students
A message from the Library.
The Library and the Research Data Management Working Group are excited to announce the launch of a Research Data Management (RDM) Guide. This guide supports researchers and students at any stage of the research project lifecycle, offering guidance and additional resources on best practices for organizing, storing, and sharing research data.
Key features of the guide include detailed guidance on creating data management plans including a data management plan template, RDM basics and best practices, and a curated list of additional valuable resources for all RDM activities.
The guide will be updated regularly to include the most up-to-date information about RDM policies (including from the Tri-Agencies) and best practices, ensuring that University of Waterloo researchers and students have easy access to this information. The guide editors warmly welcome suggestions from the community for information and resources that would be helpful to include. Suggestions can be submitted through the guide.
If you have any questions, please reach out to the Library RDM team.
Online Teaching Award nominations are open
A message from the Office of the Associate Vice-President, Academic.
Please help us recognize the great work Waterloo’s instructors are doing in the digital classroom.
The Office of the Associate Vice-President, Academic and the Centre for Extended Learning would like your help to identify these remarkable people by nominating an instructor or an online course author.
Online Teaching Award
Were you a student in a fully online course this term? If you had an exceptional experience in your course and your instructor helped you succeed, stay motivated and encouraged participation, consider nominating them for the Online Teaching Award.
Online Course Design Award
Students, teaching assistants, instructors, chairs, directors and deans are encouraged submit nominations for the Online Course Design Award for courses that are well organized, contribute to students learning and are highly engaging.
The University of Waterloo’s Online Teaching Awards recognize teaching and course design excellence in fully online undergraduate or graduate-level courses.
Four professors elected as Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
This article was originally published on the Faculty of Engineering website.
This May four Waterloo Engineering professors were elected into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) as Fellows. New Fellows are selected for their outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and around the world and for their service as role models in their fields and to their communities.
The CAE is the national institution through which individuals, who have made outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada, provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance. Fellows are committed to ensuring that Canada’s engineering expertise and experience are applied to the benefit of all Canadians.
The following faculty members were elected as CAE Fellows in 2024:
- Dr. Ladan Tahvildari is a global expert in software quality addressing challenging problems related to the architecture, security, and testing of dependable systems. She is Chair of the IEEE CS Technical Community on Software Engineering – the world's largest professional organization devoted to computer science.
- Dr. Ehsan Toyserkani has made pioneering contributions to the modeling, simulation, in-situ monitoring, and quality assurance of metal Additive Manufacturing. He is Canada Research Chair in Additive Manufacturing.
- Dr. Costas Tzoganakis’ work on rubber devulcanization has resulted in the commercialization of a technology which offers a sustainable, financially viable, environmentally friendly and socially responsible solution to the end-of-life tires problem.
- Dr. Alfred Yu is a pioneer of high-frame-rate ultrasound imaging technology that has transformed clinical ultrasound scanners and cardiovascular diagnostics. His discoveries in therapeutic ultrasound have established the mechanistic basis of ultrasound-mediated drug delivery.
Green Labs celebrates Water Month with free faucet aerators and other notes
"To celebrate Water Month, Waterloo's Green Labs program is offering free installs of faucet aerators to labs on a first-come, first-served basis," says a note from Green Labs. "To participate, please fill out the form on the Green Labs website, open at 12 noon on Friday, July 19 until 12 noon on July 29, 2024."
The Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) is hosting a public lecture by Dr. Agusti Egea Alvarez from the University of Strathclyde entitled “Keep decarbonising and carry on: what are the GB network stability challenges on our way to net zero?” on Wednesday, July 17.
"The Great British electricity sector is rapidly evolving to meet net zero requirements," says the talk's abstract. "In 2023, Wind power contributed 29.4 per cent of the UK’s total electricity generation, and a peak of 87.6 per cent of the electricity was generated using carbon-free resources. The transition is not free from challenges, especially regarding stability. The severity of these challenges was illustrated on the 9th of August in 2019 when areas of England suffered a blackout partially due to the incorrect setting of power electronics converters in an offshore wind farm. The presentation will explore some of the recent stability events in GB, the research involved in understanding them better, and the solutions that have been adopted."
Dr. Agustí Egea-Alvarez is Associate Professor in the Electronic & Electrical Engineering department at the University of Strathclyde.
The public lecture takes place on Wednesday, July 17 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in DC 1302. The event is in-person but will also be streamed on Zoom. Register today.