Lecture

Saturday, June 7, 2025 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Waterloo Architecture Alumni Reunion *Cancelled*

The School of Architecture is excited to invite alumni who graduated in a year ending in a 0 or 5 for a special reunion celebration! For those with multiple degrees received from Waterloo Architecture, we invite you to count from your first degree awarded (i.e. 1980, 1985, 1990… etc.)

Join your classmates for a casual gathering in the afternoon at the Cambridge campus, where we’ll host a talk and a tour of Waterloo Architecture’s 2025 Masterworks exhibition on view in Riverside Gallery, featuring exemplary thesis projects from several recent architecture graduate students.

Friday, March 21, 2025 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

TronCon 2025

It's a full day of discovery at TronCon 2025! TronCon will coincide with the Mechatronics Capstone Design Symposium to give alumni an opportunity to view the newest batch of Capstone design projects (FYDPs) by fourth year mechatronics students, get involved in judging the capstone design projects, and reconnect with the Tron community at the event and at the dinner that follows. 

Friday, March 14, 2025 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Strategic Vision: A Dialogue with the Dean of Engineering

Mary Wells, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, is excited to share a transformative new vision for Waterloo Engineering - one that positions the Faculty as leaders driving meaningful change for the future.

Engineering alumni are invited to explore the strategic plan and join one of the upcoming alumni roundtables (two virtual options are available on Zoom: March 12 and March 14, 2025). The roundtables will provide an opportunity to discuss how this vision will create tangible, positive impacts worldwide.

Wednesday, March 5, 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Fireside Chat: Practical tips towards finding your highest excitement

Waterloo Engineering recent alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual conversation with Waterloo Engineering alumna, Lisa Tong (BASc ’01, Chemical Engineering), who recently published her book Hello (World) Me, a personal self-guided coach to self, awareness, understanding, and choices — to creating the life YOU want. 

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Workshop: “Working the Room” with Ron Ojanpera (BASc 1969)

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive in-person workshop with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Ron Ojanpera (BASc 1969, mechanical engineering). The “Working the Room” workshop is based on 50 years of Ron’s personal business experience.  

Innovations in technology have advanced every aspect of our human lives — often with engineers at the helm. One such example is the intersection of health care and technology, as showcased by the University of Waterloo’s Global Futures framework which highlights the importance of health tech in our future world.

There are many urgent and exciting opportunities for engineers to step in and help redesign health care systems, innovate solutions and develop new ways of solving problems for the good of society.

Join this live event in Toronto with a panel of engineers, researchers and health tech entrepreneurs who will discuss how — in our rapidly changing world, challenged by rising costs and lack of access — engineering can help advance health care through technology.

The conversation will focus on how engineers can work towards solutions for optimal health care, showcase innovative research, discuss strategies for retaining health tech startups in Canada, identify challenges, explore opportunities and propose actionable solutions to foster an innovative and thriving health tech ecosystem in the country. 

Monday, March 25, 2024 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

TronCon 2024

It's a full day of discovery at TronCon 2024! TronCon will coincide with the Mechatronics Capstone Design Symposium to give alumni an opportunity to view the newest batch of Capstone design projects (FYDPs) by fourth year mechatronic students, get involved in judging the capstone design projects, and reconnect with the Tron community at the event and at the dinner that follows. 

Tuesday, January 23, 2024 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Responsible Engineering: The Impact of Technology on Society

Engineering work has a huge impact on society - we know that in the general sense. However, it can sometimes be hard to really understand how seemingly small design decisions can end up causing huge waves. In conversation with a recent engineer alum with a PEng and JD and legal professionals from the Law Commission of Ontario, we will discuss how design decisions in information systems and artificial intelligence end up creating major issues that we as a society are still figuring out how to address - from both a legal and engineering perspective. We are delighted to have with us three amazing speakers: