The exciting work that the Ideas Clinic has started in the Brock Solutions Industrial Automation Hub was recently featured by Inductive Automation, one of the project partners. The case study on this innovative industrial partnership in engineering education is available on Inductive Automation's website.
Ideas Clinic featured in 2019 Waterloo Engineering Highlights
Over the weekend, 300 Girl Guides from four cities met in the Engineering Ideas Clinic in E7 to earn their Engineering badges. Run by the folks in Engineering Outreach, this sort of hands-on learning is exactly what the Ideas Clinic was built for. Great job everyone!
The November issue of the Waterloo Engineering Alumni E-Letter (eWEAL) had two features on Engineering Ideas Clinic and the exciting hands-on activities we are bringing to our students. The articles on Architectural Engineering and their implementation of Engineering Design Days, and on Engineering 7
Author: Peter Nowak
The Robohub and the Ideas Clinic were featured in a special report in the Globe and Mail. See the full article on the Globe and Mail's site.
Engineering Design Days were featured in the January, 2018 edition of the
Centre for Teaching Excellence's newsletter. The issue can be seen in full
James Smith knelt at the foot of a mechanical contraption and slowly turned its crank to test the strength of a blue Styrofoam bridge he built with teammates at the University of Waterloo.
Educating engineers at the University of Waterloo got a major boost today with the announcement of more than $3 million in funding over five years for a variety of immersive, hands-on programs.
Activities organized by the Engineering IDEAs Clinic will range from two-hour, in-class projects such as taking apart internal combustion engines, to two-day, open-ended problems requiring students to work in teams and draw on all of their academic lessons to find solutions.
Sanjeev Bedi, founder of the Engineering Ideas Clinic, is well known for his energy, mentorship, and connectivity with students.