Faculty

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Travis Ratnam (BASc ’06, Electrical Engineering), Co-Founder and CEO of Knowledgehook.

During this Office Hour, Travis Ratnam will talk about his journey creating and expanding Knowledgehook, including how he went from recent grad to co-founder and CEO. Join fellow alumni and students for this virtual office hour to hear Travis’ story, his lessons learned and his tips for entrepreneurs.

To remember and celebrate the incredible contributions made to the University of Waterloo by Pearl Sullivan, former dean of engineering and the first woman to hold the position, we will be hosting an online celebration of her life for our internal University community.

Date:              Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Time:              11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Location:         YouTube Live

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour sponsored by Ten Thousand Coffees and RBC Future Launch: "Will Mentorship Get me a Job?".

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Paul Craven (BASc 1984, Systems Design Engineering), President of Responsive Brands, who will discuss “The Science Behind Selling: How One Engineer Went from Hating Sales to Loving Sales”.

Calling all University of Waterloo graduate students, graduate alumni, administrators, and faculty in engineering! You are invited to a workshop discussing the Gender Differences in Waterloo Graduate Engineering Student Experience, on January 25, 2021, from 1-4:30pm (ET). All genders are encouraged to participate.

What does it really mean to be a smart city or healthy city and are we even close to living sustainably in urban environments? Will the pandemic and rise of working from home affect how we design city life and civic spaces now and in the future? What does an age-friendly city look like over the next couple of decades? These timely questions and more will be addressed by a panel of alumni and academia experts as we examine where architecture and city design are headed in light of a great social upheaval. 

Against all odds, hundreds of millions of effective COVID-19 vaccines are now being shipped worldwide. The next enormous challenge on par with the development of these vaccines is the supply chain logistics required to get the many millions of doses from the factory to the billions of people who need it – safely and in a timely matter.  

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Bruce Matthews (BASc 1987, Systems Design Engineering), Executive Director at the Association of Consulting Engineering Companies who will discuss what's “Inside the World of Consulting Engineering”.

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is happy to welcome Professor Hamed Shahsavan to the WIN family! Professor Shahsavan will deliver a seminar in order to introduce himself and his research to our community. Please join us in giving him a warm welcome.

Seminar title: Liquid Crystal Networks for Small-Scale Bioinspired Soft Robots and Devices

In the time of physical distancing during a global pandemic, our annual ski day will consist of a lift ticket offer but not a full alumni event. Osler Bluff Ski Club has generously extended lift tickets to Engineering and Science alumni for one day only.