Events

This full day conference for first and upper year engineer students will showcase a variety of guest speakers and workshops focused on helping participants navigate through both student life and career preparation. From planning out your next four years in undergrad to learning what to expect when you enter the workforce, this conference will help you gain the skills and knowledge needed to achieve your goals with confidence.

Mark your calendars and prepare your questions! Ever wonder what life is like as an engineering student at UWaterloo? Trying to figure out which program is right for you? We're here to help.

Current engineering students will be live on Reddit to answer your questions from 3:00pm to 4:00pm on November 28th (questions will open starting at 2pm!) - this AMA will be hosted on the UWaterloo subreddit: reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/.

Come learn about the research happening with UAVs in the Waterloo Region! Keysight and Gap Wireless will be showing off some of their equipment.

The Exergy Destruction Principle: Is the optimum thermodynamic system one that maximizes it's utilization of exergy?

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Hamid Moradkhani and Alton N. Scott, the Endowed Chair in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alabama, will present "Toward More Resilient Hydrosystems: Flood and Drought Hazards, Vulnerability and Risk in a Changing Climate".

Tomorrow’s innovators practice imaginative thinking and teamwork. Guided by two or more adult Coaches, FIRST LEGO League teams (up to 10 members, grades 4-8**) research a real-world problem such as food safety, recycling, energy, etc., and are challenged to develop a solution. They also must design, build, program a robot using LEGO MINDSTORMS®, then compete on a table-top playing field.

The four-part Canadian Blockchain Olympiad Training Camp programme to prepare Canadian students for entering the 2019 International Blockchain Olympiad (www.ibcol.org), a multidisciplinary design & building competition for solving real-world challenges through decentralised apps.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series, Professor Martyn Clark, Associate Director at the Centre for Hydrology at the University of Saskatchewan and Editor-in-Chief of Water Resources Research, will present "The Evolution of Process-Based Hydrologic Models: Historical Challenges and the Collective Quest for Physical Realism."

Women in Engineering is celebrating International Women’s Day with a movie screening at Princess Twin Cinemas! Come out to watch Suffragette (2015) with a live panel before the show, free snacks and a chance to meet some awesome people!

Chemical Engineering's Capstone Design Symposium will feature 35 projects from final year Engineering students ranging in topic from solar powered cooking to the production of artificial blood vessels. 

For more information on all the research projects that will be presented, please see the 2019 Chemical Engineering Capstone Design Projects page and join us on March 11 in Engineering 6, first floor atrium, to come and explore for yourself!