Events

Alumni, students, employers, industry partners, media, and members of the general public are invited to join us in Pearl Sullivan Engineering for the Capstone Design Symposium.

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumni Tom Dean (BASc '79, mechanical engineering), director of technical operations in the Department of Chemical Engineering from 2012 to 2022, to talk about successfully navigating the various steps to obtain your next full-time job in a technical field. Tom has been an engineering hiring manager for the past 35 years and has been coaching chemical engineering undergraduate students on the hiring process for the past decade, prior to retiring four months

Ten Student Teams Battle It Out For $60k In Prize Money at the Esch Pitch Competition

During the Esch Pitch Competition, ten outstanding Capstone design project teams, shortlisted from over 50 entries representing all Engineering departments, compete for $60,000 in funding. The Esch Awards support creative and entrepreneurial students who are pursuing research and development and its commercialization for the benefit of Canada.

After each pitch, judges will conduct a live “Dragon’s Den” style Q&A. Come to hear the pitches and cheer on your favourite design team!

Getting out of the garage

Jan Kahehti:io [“beautiful garden”] Longboat, Turtle clan of the Mohawk Nation, is an Elder, educator, writer, herbalist, cultural advocate and visionary. She has dedicated her life to the dissemination and learning of Indigenous language and culture. She shares her knowledge of Earth teachings,storytelling, fasting, dreams, visions, medicine teachings, women's roles, and relationships, Haudenausaunee wampum belts, leadership, environmental changes and the impact that her original language has on understanding important values or life.

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumnus Stephen Semeniw (BASc 1989, electrical engineering), co-founder and vice-president of sales at Tego Cyber as well as management consultant at Quantus Capital Corporation, who will talk about “The Long and Winding Road Adventure.”

Engineering Day 2023

MBET students make new things happen. They focus on the commercialization of their ideas to build a new venture or have a novel approach within existing organizations. In this info session learn about the program, hear about the student experience and what happens to our graduates. Discover why Waterloo is the place for entrepreneurs to grow.

The Deans of the Faculties of Engineering, Mathematics, and Science, invites you and a guest to an exclusive alumni reception at Sentry for an evening of networking with University of Waterloo alumni and co-op students currently on work term in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

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.