Events

Chamath Palihapitiya (BASc ’99, Elect) and Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, Comp), founders of Social Capital, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, are returning to campus to talk to Engineering students about two amazing opportunities that could change students' lives. 

Explore the exciting field of engineering! Go ENG Girl is an exciting opportunity for Grade 7 - 10 girls to visit the University of Waterloo and learn about the wonderful world of engineering. Meet women currently studying engineering, learn about some of the amazing things women engineers are doing, and participate in a cool hands-on activity.

How do we know what our students know? What they don’t know? What and how much they’ve learned? How do we know if our teaching has had an impact on students’ learning?

Thoughtfully designed assessment practices can provide both a window into the diverse ways in which course content is understood (and misunderstood) by our students and a guide for future teaching decisions.

Explore the interconnectedness of our world at UW's official TEDx event

TEDxUW is a key player in the global TED movement, which aims to share ‘ideas worth spreading’, for free, across the world.

TEDxUW has brought many brilliant minds together in order to network, share ideas, and change and challenge perspectives on our ever-changing world.

Fast Feedback Day

An open forum where teams present their ideas for fast feedback from a panel of experts. You can have your idea/company vetted by investors, industry subject matter experts and faculty experts.  

Graduating Students
Engineering Alumni Affairs cordially invites all engineering students graduating in 2017 to the Dean's toast to the Class of 2017 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm on Wednesday, March 29, 2017. The champagne toast will be at 6:00 p.m.

Find out how your team can go from idea to funding in this "how to" session. Lyon Wong, Spectrum 28, outlines the steps to getting funded. Select teams are interviewed and funding readiness issues examined. It's two hours of "hands-on, how-to" knowledge involving real startups who are looking for funding.  Guest entrepreneur José Daire shares his insight on the importance of relationships in getting funded.

Who should attend: Undergraduates, Graduate students, faculty or staff who are interested in the steps to obtain seed funding.