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Friday, January 10, 2014

Work Ethic from ASEE Prism

Excerpt of Work Ethic from ASEE Prism's October 2013 issue.

Industry experiences help lift a Canadian engineering school to star status

No one would use the term venerable to describe the University of Waterloo. Set on a former cornfield some 70 miles west of Toronto, the campus’s oldest building dates only to 1958 — a year after the first 74 students began classes in two makeshift structures erected on the parking lot of Waterloo College down the road.

The first class of an innovative biomedical engineering program that connects students to the medical community will start at the University of Waterloo next fall.

The new program in Canada's largest engineering school will give students the unique opportunity to blend hands-on design expertise with workplace experiences and academic studies.

It’s obviously something about your great engineering school, combined with the resources and encouragement to start building and creating stuff while you’re still in school, that positions Waterloo founders so well to be starting companies," says Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit, author and startup investor.

Friday, March 15, 2013 12:00 am - Friday, March 22, 2013 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Engineering Design Symposiums

Engineering's annual Design Symposiums showcase the work of our fourth-year students to members of the University of Waterloo and our surrounding community. Completed over the past year, the fourth-year projects cover a wide range of solutions for real-world challenges that reflect the interests and concerns of our graduating students.