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Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumni Craig McQueen (BASc 1993, Systems Design Engineering), vice president of digital acceleration at Softchoice, as he shares tips and advice on taking charge of your career in tech.

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Office Hour with Parisa Golchoubian (MASc '17), Founder of Artistech and Artterra

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumna Parisa Golchoubian (MASc 2017, Systems Design Engineering), founder of Artistech and Artterra, as she shares tips and advice on the passion and values needed to start a company.

Tuesday, January 17, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Office Hour with Shawn Freeman (MMSc ’14), Mentor, Technology Entrepreneur, and Partner

Waterloo Engineering students and alumni are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour with Waterloo Engineering alumni Shawn Freeman (MMSc ‘14, management sciences), mentor, tech expert and entrepreneur, to learn about leadership and the various stages of a start-up: transitioning from an employee to owning a business, scaling it, selling and then exiting.

Wednesday, March 15, 2023 12:00 am - Tuesday, March 28, 2023 12:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Engineering Capstone Design Symposia

Alumni, students, employers, industry partners, media, and members of the general public are invited to join us in Engineering 7 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

Thursday, March 30, 2023 12:30 pm - 12:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Esch Pitch Competition

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!

Wednesday, April 12, 2023 10:00 am - 12:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Elder Visit: Jan Longboat

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.”