3, 2, 1, LEGO! Those words opened each competitive heat on Saturday at the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) West Ontario Championships, held at the University of Waterloo. Some very focused 9 to 14 year olds were competing in the 2013 FLL challenge, Nature's Fury.
This is an excerpt from Prof. Bill Anderson's blog, published Dec. 30, 2013.
With application deadlines approaching, some people will be struggling with the decision of which engineering program to apply to. I had a post on this topic last year, and here are some additional thoughts. As a reminder, Waterloo engineering has direct entry to a specific engineering discipline, so you have to pick one of our 13 programs for your application choice.
Waterloo Engineering will accept an additional 45 students to its high demand Mechatronics Engineering program, beginning in Fall 2014!
An integrated marketing campaign that includes eye-catching ads featuring Waterloo Engineering's next generation of wireless communications, drug delivery
The first class of an innovative biomedical engineering program that connects students to the medical community will start at the University of Waterloo next fall.
The new program in Canada's largest engineering school will give students the unique opportunity to blend hands-on design expertise with workplace experiences and academic studies.
It’s obviously something about your great engineering school, combined with the resources and encouragement to start building and creating stuff while you’re still in school, that positions Waterloo founders so well to be starting companies," says Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of reddit, author and startup investor.
Three CEOs who grew businesses from roots at the University of Waterloo, the hometown of smartphone-maker BlackBerry, came together last week to share their stories about the challenges and opportunities of growing a global technology business in Asia.
The life span of a single tweet may only be seconds, but the buzz surrounding Twitter and Square founder, Jack Dorsey's, visit to campus is still resounding weeks later.
During Dorsey's visit to Waterloo Region, hundreds of students, faculty and staff attended his talk at the University of Waterloo titled, "Punk, Dropout, Massage Therapist", but only a select group of students attended the exclusive lunch with Dorsey hosted by Communitech.
For the second consecutive year, the University of Waterloo has been ranked among the top 50 universities for academic achievement in the category of engineering/ technology and computer science according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
The Conrad Centre is running an eight-week challenge for incoming Master of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology students to win scholarship money for their upcoming year and to also encourage community participation. The Innovator Challenge consists of three questions that will be asked every two weeks until the end of August.