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Friday, September 16, 2016 9:30 am - 10:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Chamath Palihapitiya & Dean Pearl Sullivan: A Fireside Chat

chamath palihapitiya and Brigetter LauChamath Palihapitiya (BASc ’99, Elect) and Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, Comp), founders of Social Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, are returning to campus to talk to Engineering students about two amazing opportunities that could change students' lives. 

Friday, September 16, 2016 11:00 am - 11:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Seminar - “Life is Good: A Journey From Energy Storage To Protein Therapeutics”

SPEAKER: Yunfeng Lu, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of California Los Angeles

ABSTRACT:  Human civilization has been driven by harvest and utilization of solar energy.  Developing better technologies leading to more effective energy harvest and utilization is being emerged as one of the most essential research themes. 

Thursday, September 15, 2016 2:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

WaterTalks series: Pieter van der Zaag

RBC visiting fellow, Pieter van der Zaag, presents “Water Storage: Nature-based Solutions for Resilient Communities."

A professor of integrated water resources management at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, The Netherlands and professor at Delft University of Technology, we welcome van der Zaag as part of our ongoing WaterTalks lecture series.

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.

Dr. Madjid Soltani, Post Doctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University and Director, Computational Medicine Institute (CMI) at KNT University of Technology and Ministry of Health, Iran.

Keywords: imaging, tumor image diagnostics, tumor treatment and progression, predictive modeling, therapy planning, mathematical modeling of tumor growth, transport phenomena to biological and physiological systems, drug delivery to solid tumors

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.