Faculty

"Leading Through Challenging Times"

Students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Jim Vounassis (BASc '94), Chief Operating Officer at Bombardier Transportation!

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) is pleased to present a Distinguished Lecture Series talk by Professor Joseph Heremans, an Ohio Eminent Scholar and distinguished professor in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the Ohio State University.

For more information about this event and abstract for this talk, please see the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) event page.

Engineering alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Oscar Nespoli, design faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.

In a worldwide race to find solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic, Waterloo Engineering professors and alumni are working on engineering a variety of unique solutions. Join us for this virtual webinar to learn about vaccine development and the complexities involved, portable and rapid diagnostic testing, and innovative ways of using imaging for screening and diagnosis.

Our world faces a truly unprecedented combination of circumstances: global pandemic, a concurrently sharp economic contraction, war-scale government intervention, soaring debt levels, interest rates at 400-year lows, a stock market that had been priced for perfection, massive social disruption and the technology sector built on shifting sands. What does the immediate future hold?

Join us for a talk with Y Combinator partner Eric Migicovsky.

Eric was the founder of smartwatch pioneer Pebble Technology, acquired by Fitbit in 2016. Eric will cover some of the myths that exist around starting startups, what you should do while you’re still in school if you want to start a company, and he’ll talk about how YC can help you get started. He’ll also spend time answering your questions.

A Zoom link will be emailed to registered participants.

Developing new functional materials is the foundation of nanotechnology. You can learn about the whole spectrum of new amazing nanomaterials in the research publications, but you can only find a few of them to be commercially available. Ever wondered why? Join us and learn what one needs to consider when spinning a novel nanomaterial into a business opportunity.

Speakers:
- Darren Anderson, Founder and CEO, VIVE Crop Protection (Toronto)
- Elena Polyakova, Founder and CEO, Graphene Labs Inc.

Students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with engineering alumna Kirusha Srimohanarajah (BASc 2015), Electrical Engineer at Synaptive Medical.

Students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with engineering alumnus Paul-Michael Dekker (BASc '80), Professional Networker, Futurist, Systems Design Engineer and Entrepreneur!