Current students

Tuesday, November 17, 2015 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Enterprise Co-op information session

Enterprise Co-op (E Co-op) is a program which allows students to start their own business while earning a co-op credit. E Co-op is open to students from all faculties with any type of business concept: no-tech, low-tech, high-tech, service, consulting and more. If you have an idea you want to take to market and have the passion to build your venture, Enterprise Co-op may be for you.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Enterprise Co-op information session

Enterprise Co-op (E Co-op) is a program which allows students to start their own business while earning a co-op credit. E Co-op is open to students from all faculties with any type of business concept: no-tech, low-tech, high-tech, service, consulting and more. If you have an idea you want to take to market and have the passion to build your venture, Enterprise Co-op may be for you.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

MBET Alumni Mixer

MBET alumni are invited to join us for the Conrad Centre's fall 2015 MBET Alumni Mixer. 

Reconnect with classmates and faculty, meet the new MBET class, enter to win prizes (such as a Pebble watch!), and enjoy drinks and canapés at Gilt Restaurant in Downtown Kitchener.

There is no cost to attend, but we ask that you please register by October 9.

All MBET alumni are welcome, so please help us to spread the word!

Thursday, October 8, 2015 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Elmar Mock: Taking the Plunge - The Art of Breakthrough Innovation

Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Businessstudents are invited to a speaker event featuring Elmar Mock, co-presented with the Accelerator Centre. 

Elmar Mock is an engineer in watchmaking and plastics, and he co-invented the Swatch. He then designed Tissot's Rockwatch before leaving the company and founding his own engineering and technical consultation company, Créaholic in Biel, Switzerland in 1986.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Threshold / Troublesome Concepts: What MUST We Teach?

Our disciplines abound with fascinating, rich, and important concepts to teach. Yet how do we decide on which concepts to focus when designing courses and programs?

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Affordable Energy for Humanity: If Not Now, When?

Energy Poverty remains a major handicap to achieving human development goals. For a third of humanity without access to electricity or modern fuels, it is a notable failure of the existing global energy system that it delivers so very little to so many. Professor Jatin Nathwani, Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo, will discuss the pathways to a low carbon energy future. The goal is to unlock scientific and technological innovations to deliver clean, low cost energy services to every global citizen.

Monday, September 28, 2015 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

"Backpack to Briefcase" Networking Event

Backpack to Briefcase

Waterloo Engineering alumni and current engineering students are invited to an informal networking event organized by EngSoc B.

Alumni are invited to speak to and network with current engineering students about their career and career path as well as share their advice on transitioning from school to the corporate world.

Nafeesa Mahboob, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral canadiate, received the Basil Papadias Student Paper Award for the best student paper at the biannual IEEE PowerTech 2015 Conference held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The paper was co-authored by her two doctoral supervisors Claudio Canizares and Catherine Rosenberg, both electrical and computer engineering professors. The award was presented with a plaque and 1000 euros.