presents a lunch-time talk by Diane Freeman, Councilor - City of Waterloo and Alumna:
"ENVISIONING THE RENAISSANCE ENGINEER"
Dr. Trevor Dickinson, University of Guelph, will deliver a seminar titled "How rising temperatures have changed winter hydrology across Ontario."
A University of Waterloo team, headed by Eihab Abdel-Rahman of systems design engineering, is receiving a $1.2 million boost in federal funding. Abdel-Rahman leads a team working on a system of sensors that will detect, through hand movement on a steering wheel, whether a driver has any alcohol in his or her system.
Guest speaker - Xingcheng Xiao from General Motors Global R&D Center will speak on the topic of "Advanced Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries"
Guest speaker - Laura Palomares of the Biotechnology Institute from the National Autonomous University of Mexico will discuss the topic of "Viral Structural Proteins: From Vaccines to Nanotechnology"
A general information session for engineering students about the possibilities of doing academic exchanges in their 3A, 3B, and/or 4A term.
Adel Sedra, Dean of Engineering cordially invites you to the unveiling of the plaque commemorating Professor James Ford.
For more than 30 years, Professor Ford taught chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, specializing in heat transfer and solid-gas reactions.
Kaan Inal of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and Sheshakamal Jayaram of electrical and computer engineering will be able to take their research further thanks to the 2012 NSERC funding announced in Toronto May 23. The engineering professors were among 123 researchers throughout Canada who will receive $120,000 over the next three years through the Discovery Accelerator Supplement program.
Guest speaker Jean-Pol Dodelet from INRS-Energie will speak on the topic of "Replacing Pt at the Cathode of H2/O2 (Air) PEM Fuel Cells with Highly Active Fe-based Electrocatalysts"
On Friday, May 18th 2012, Professor Kien Wen Sun from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, will deliver a lecture titled "Applications of Nanotechnology on Solar Energy Harvesting". This lecture is free and open to the public!