Events

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.

Photos of Parisa Golchoubian (MASc '17) with a white brick background and several pieces of art.

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.

Waterloo Engineering alumni and current students are invited to participate in an exclusive virtual Office Hour sponsored by Ten Thousand Coffees.

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time - presenting both a challenge and incredible opportunity to make positive change for future generations. Change can happen at any level - from the choices that individuals make on a daily basis to the commitments that large organizations make towards a more sustainable future.

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.

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

An annual conference designed to help graduate students and postdocs develop key professional skills. This year’s theme is communication and community, focused on interpersonal and intercultural communication in the workplace, networking, and self-advocacy. Registration for day one and day two of the conference is now open.

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.”

Meditation has been shown to reduce stress, increase balance and stillness, increase awareness, and even expand acceptance and compassion for yourself and others. Each week will vary slightly. “Practices” include breathing, mindfulness, body awareness, earthly grounding, spacial awareness, centring, and more.

Sessions are facilitated from a well-being perspective. No religious affiliation is needed. Everyone is welcome to participate. All experience levels are welcome from advanced practitioners to those who are trying meditation for the first time.

Why not give it a try! Gift yourself with a few moments of stillness to reset and recharge. It’s as true for people as it is with technology as well as people...we can all benefit from shutting down for a few moments and recharging.

This session is open to all members of the FoE community. Please bring your own meditation pillow or mat to sit on.

Join David Correa, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture for a seminar on the implementation of state of the art digital fabrication tools (robotic manipulators, 4D printers and CNC milling) to develop innovative and high-performance design solutions for industrial and architectural applications.

Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos smiling wearing glasses and a jacket

The importance of liquid fuels in transportation is well established, yet, there are presently no viable options for their cost-effective production from renewable feedstocks. During the past 15 years we have been developing in my lab a system for the conversion of gas mixtures of hydrogen (or CO) and CO2 to oils or alkanes. The two-stage system comprises anaerobic fixation of CO2 and conversion of the CO2 fixation product (for example, acetate) to lipids, from which biodiesel can be produced. In another application, the CO2 fixation product is converted to alkanes. Our work includes both the engineering of the microbes and development of a process to achieve gas to liquid conversion in prototype systems. These systems are scalable, make no use of land (beyond what is needed for generating renewable electricity for hydrogen production), do not compete with food and are cost competitive based on high level cost analysis. I will present the essential features of this process in my talk; full details can be found in the 5 papers cited.

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Office Hour with Craig McQueen (BASc ’93), VP at Softchoice, on “Take charge of your career in tech”

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

Office Hour: #CareersinClimate Part 2: Building a more sustainable future through entrepreneurship

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

Office Hour with Tom Dean (BASc '79) on "Tips on How to Successfully Land Your Next Full Time Job"

GRADventure Professional Skills Conference

Office Hour with Stephen Semeniw (BASc '89) on “The Long and Winding Road Adventure”

Meditation Mondays

Robotics, 4D printing, and Biomimetics in Architectural Design

Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series featuring Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos, W.H. Dow Professor MIT: Can biotechnology deliver cost effective liquid fuels from renewable feedstocks?

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