Alumni

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

TD Walter Bean Lecture in Environment - Dr. Ben Schwegler

Dr. Ben Schwegler, PhD, MASCE, Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist
of Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development

Creating Sustainable Cities from the Ground Up – Lessons from Disney Research

Saturday, November 26, 2016 8:00 am - 6:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

TEDxUW

Explore the interconnectedness of our world at UW's official TEDx event

TEDxUW is a key TEDxUW logoplayer in the global TED movement, which aims to share ‘ideas worth spreading’, for free, across the world.

TEDxUW has brought many brilliant minds together in order to network, share ideas, and change and challenge perspectives on our ever-changing world.

Saturday, October 15, 2016 9:00 am - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Go ENG Girl

Go Eng Girl logo

Explore the exciting field of engineering! Go ENG Girl is an exciting opportunity for Grade 7 - 10 girls to visit the University of Waterloo and learn about the wonderful world of engineering. Meet women currently studying engineering, learn about some of the amazing things women engineers are doing, and participate in a cool hands-on activity.

Thursday, September 22, 2016 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm PDT (GMT -07:00)

Waterloo Engineering Alumni Reception at Microsoft

Seattle skyline at dusk

You're invited to indulge in a slice of Canada in Seattle! Held at Microsoft, the evening features reminiscing about Canada and Waterloo, Canadian-inspired food and Canadiana prizes! This event is open to all engineering alumni and current engineering students living/working in the Seattle area.

Saturday, October 22, 2016 12:00 am - 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Post-Convocation reception for the Class of 2016

Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering, the Registrar's Office, Engineering Alumni Affairs and the Office of Development and Alumni Relations are pleased to invite you and your guests to an informal complimentary post-convocation reception. Join us at the Student Life Centre in the Great Hall to celebrate one of the most important days of your education career!

The official mace

A tight timeline was only fitting when engineers at the University of Waterloo took on a special project for the Canadian track cycling team headed to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Lending their expertise in a world where winners and losers are typically decided by tiny fractions of a second, Professor John McPhee and research engineer Carin Yeghiazarian had just one week in June to produce a small but technically complex piece of hardware.

A device that harvests ambient emissions from smartphones and converts them into power to run smart contact lenses has earned a team of Waterloo Engineering students a third-place finish and a $4,500 US prize in an international design competition.

Fifty student teams vied for honours at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in Puerto Rico after being challenged to design and build power-harvesting devices capable of turning radio-frequency emissions into useful DC power.