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Backpack to Briefcase
Monday, September 28, 2015 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

"Backpack to Briefcase" Networking Event

Backpack to Briefcase

Waterloo Engineering alumni and current engineering students are invited to an informal networking event organized by EngSoc B.

Alumni are invited to speak to and network with current engineering students about their career and career path as well as share their advice on transitioning from school to the corporate world.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Student Team Open House

Join a student design team!

Students from ALL faculties are invited to participate in:

Engineering Design
Business and management
Communications and marketing
Accounting, funding
Creating cool stuff

Contact individual teams through our website, or come out to the SSDC Open House to learn more.

http://uwaterloo.ca/sedra-student-design-centre/

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Affordable Energy for Humanity: If Not Now, When?

Energy Poverty remains a major handicap to achieving human development goals. For a third of humanity without access to electricity or modern fuels, it is a notable failure of the existing global energy system that it delivers so very little to so many. Professor Jatin Nathwani, Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy, University of Waterloo, will discuss the pathways to a low carbon energy future. The goal is to unlock scientific and technological innovations to deliver clean, low cost energy services to every global citizen.

Monday, October 5, 2015 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

CBB visionary lecture series: Tackling grand challenges in global health & development

The world’s challenges and targets for their solutions have recently been captured in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) which are intended to guide global action from 2015‐2030. Now, the focus is shifting from the strategy of developing and forging consensus around these goals to questions of implementation and execution regarding how these goals will be reached. In addressing this question, it is clear that innovation will be critical to reaching the SDGs.

Thursday, October 8, 2015 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Elmar Mock: Taking the Plunge - The Art of Breakthrough Innovation

Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Businessstudents are invited to a speaker event featuring Elmar Mock, co-presented with the Accelerator Centre. 

Elmar Mock is an engineer in watchmaking and plastics, and he co-invented the Swatch. He then designed Tissot's Rockwatch before leaving the company and founding his own engineering and technical consultation company, Créaholic in Biel, Switzerland in 1986.

Thursday, October 22, 2015 10:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

WISE Lecture Series - The Impact of "Energiewende" on Renewable Energy in Germany

WISE Lecture Series - The Impact of "Energiewende" on Renewable Energy in Germany

The term ‘Energiewende’ refers to the current German effort to transition to renewable energy sources. To combat the long tradition of fossil fuel energy generation the German government established “The Renewable Energy Act” in 2000 and now offers incentives for renewable energy.
Dr. Pehlken will discuss the impact of these incentives with regards to best practice, the need for regulation and unexpected outcomes.

All are welcome, refreshments to follow. This is a free event.