From Waterloo Stories
Every business, every idea and every product being created right now, is being “born global.”
If you attended the 2013 Teaching and Learning Conference, you may recall noticing an Engineering flavour. The 2014 Teaching and Learning Conference is set to once again offer attendees a good selection of general and Engineering-specific teaching development topics.
From April 15 Daily Bulletin
Tom Duever, a chemical engineering professor and former department chair, has been named dean of Ryerson University's Faculty of Engineering
and Architectural Science. His five-year appointment begins August 1, 2014. He will also become a tenured professor in Ryerson's chemical engineering department.
Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ila Berman to the position of O’Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo's School of Architecture.
Dean Pearl Sullivan awarded nine student design teams over $30,000 in a first round of funding from the Engineer of the Future Trust, a pool of discretionary micro-seed funding for budding entrepreneurs at Waterloo Engineering.
Local Girl Guide units visited the University of Waterloo and became engineers for a day.
It was an action packed afternoon as 15 Capstone Design team finalists pitched their projects to win over $60,000 in awards!
On April 4, Waterloo Engineering hosted the first annual Esch Entrepreneurship Capstone Design Awards, culminating two weeks of extraordinary student innovation at the 2014 Capstone Design Symposia.
View gallery of Esch Entrepreneurship and Sedra People's Choice Awards
Two electrical engineering alumni have been appointed to important senior leadership positions. At the end of March, Telus Corp named Joe Natale the telecommunications company's next chief executive officer. Natale, who joined Telus in 2003, is a frequent guest speaker on entrepreneurship at the University of Waterloo. He graduated with a Waterloo electrical engineering degree in 1987.
A paper by chemical engineering faculty members Tom Duever and Alex Penlidis and doctoral candidate Niousha Kazemi was chosen 'best presentation of the AIChE session' byJohn R. Richards, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The paper entitled Demystifying the estimation of reactivity ratios for terpolymerization systems was based on a conference presentation at the November 2013 AIChE Conference.
Pearl Sullivan, Waterloo's dean of engineering, announced March 31 that undergraduate students applying for Waterloo Engineering’s Accelerated Master’s program will be eligible for top up funding of $4,500 to supplement funding available through NSERC Student Research Awards.