Events by month

EngSoc Scavenger Hunt is a term long event where students find items or participate in events to collect points. It's a chance for people to get involved in the Engineering community and school-wide events. Just like the name would suggest, we are sending you on a gigantic scavenger hunt! Check out the list of items and instructions.

TOP PRIZE: PURPLE HARD HAT

There are only 5 purple hard hats available! Prize will go to:

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” –William Arthur Ward. This is a week dedicated to showing your gratitude towards the people around you, whether nearstranger or family. Think of some people to reach out to and say thank you for anything they've done, big or small, and get talking! Get closer to someone you're less familiar with, rekindle an old friendship, or just have catch up with some friends.

Get your lettuce and get ready to eat. This is a competition to see who can eat an entire head of lettuce the fastest. The winner will be crowned Head Lettuce.

Candidate: Huanyi Chen

Topic: Predicting Student Performance and Educational Data Mining in Programming Courses

Date: July 2, 2020

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: REMOTE PARTICIPATION

Supervisor(s): Ward, Paul

Candidate: Karim Amin

Title: Laser Fault Injection: Apparatus and Procedure, Attacks and Countermeasures

Date: July 2, 2020

Time: 2:00 PM

Place: REMOTE PARTICIPATION

Supervisor(s): Gebotys, Catherine

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Candidate: Hisham Alharbi
Title: Electricity Market Participation and Investment Planning Frameworks for Energy Storage Systems
Date: July 6, 2020
Time: 9:30 AM
Place: REMOTE PARTICIPATION
Supervisor(s): Bhattacharya, Kankar

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Get together with friends to play some boardgames online! Chatrooms and calls will be set up so you can hop right into the action from home!

Make your voice heard by attending EngSoc council meetings! Mandate the executive to work on your behalf, run to sit on a committee, and help make decisions that impact the future of EngSoc. Especially this term, we want to hear how you and your classmates are adapting to online school and what we can do to help you!

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This is the League of Legends tournament! You can sign up with a team to compete in a tournament bracket on two separate occasions and the winning team will receive a prize. You don't have to sign up with a team, you can sign up with as many people as possible and we will do our best to accommodate for you.

The Waterloo Engineering Competition (WEC) is a day-long event where teams compete to create a design project in the category of their choosing to qualify for the Ontario Engineering Competition and a cash prize! This event is open to all engineering students of all skill sets and knowledge levels. There are many different competitions so there is something for everyone. All competitions will be held online and be able to completed from your own home. Hope to see you there!

An insightful evening of getting to know more about the PEO: becoming a professional engineer, volunteer opportunities and PEO chapters to keep a lookout for. All future engineers, take notes!

Did Carole Baskin murder your plant? Join us, and we will help you take care of a plant so that it can defy that husband murderer!

Candidate: Karim Amin
Title: Laser Fault Injection: Apparatus and Procedure, Attacks and Countermeasures
Date: July 15, 2020
Time: 10:30 AM
Place: REMOTE PARTICIPATION
Supervisor(s): Gebotys, Catherine

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Come enjoy Coffee House for some live music. Bring your talent, instruments or just yourself and enjoy a night filled with musical performances of all sorts with friends. Everyone is welcome!

Candidate: Tyler Davidson-Hall
Title: The Influence of Charge Transport Layer Interfaces on the Performance of Electroluminescent Colloidal Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Devices
Date: July 20, 2020
Time: 1:00 PM
Place: REMOTE PARTICIPATION
Supervisor(s): Aziz, Hany

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Fix yourself a drink, grab a seat, and join some friends online for a socially distant happy hour!

Make your voice heard by attending EngSoc council meetings! Mandate the executive to work on your behalf, run to sit on a committee, and help make decisions that impact the future of EngSoc. Especially this term, we want to hear how you and your classmates are adapting to online school and what we can do to help you!

Video call your friends in EngSoc and don't forget to bring your pets! Have your furry friends on call with the POETS background to enjoy an evening of comfort and fun. It is not necessary to have a pet to be a part, you can just come say hi to the cuties!

Candidate: Yugal Kishore Maheshwari

Title: A Comparative Analysis for Low-voltage, Low-power, and Low-energy Flip-flops

Date: July 23, 2020

Time: 3:00 PM

Place: Remote attendance

Supervisor(s): Sachdev, Manoj - Wright, Derek

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This is the Teamfight Tactics tournament! Sign up to play in a number of games to determine if you are the number one player in Teamfight Tactics.

Did Carole Baskin murder your plant? Join us, and we will help you take care of a plant so that it can defy that husband murderer!

Candidate: Aixi Pan

Title: Fabrication of high aspect ratio (HAR) atomic force microscope (AFM) tips and nano-pillar arrays using pseudo-Bosch and wet etching

Date: July 29, 2020

Time: 10:00 AM

Place: Remote

Supervisor(s): Cui, Bo

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Candidate: Shubham Ranjan

Title: TiO2 and biomaterials based memristor devices and its in-memory computing applications

Date: July 29, 2020

Time: 2:30 PM

Place: Remote

Supervisor(s): Wei, Lan - Zhou, Norman

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