An integrated marketing campaign that includes eye-catching ads featuring Waterloo Engineering's next generation of wireless communications, drug delivery
Margaret Dalziel, a professor with the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre, has been appointed by the Ministry of Finance to chair a prestigious expert panel examining business support programs in Ontario. The panel will review and evaluate the initiatives and provide recommendations that the province will use to ensure the growth of Ontario companies is supported effectively to better attract strategic new investments.
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.
A memorial will be held next year to celebrate the life of Khal Soudki who died September 17, 2013 after a long battle with cancer.
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.
Members of Waterloo Engineering's Software Technologies Applied Research (STAR) laboratory were honoured with one of the Best Technology Showcase Awards at CASCON 2013, the International Conference hosted by the Centre for Advanced Studies Research, IBM Canada Software Laboratory. The conference was held November 18-20 in Toronto.
Retired astronaut Chris Hadfield: “Waterloo Engineering is a dominant influence in technology innovation, application and achievement.”
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.
Waterloo electrical engineering alumni are debuting connected, wearable workout gear to the public in Spring 2014.
Backed with $3.5 million in seed funding from fellow electrical engineering graduate Chamath Palihapitiya's Social+Capital Partnership, Athos offers wearable technology that is fully integrated in workout clothing.
"The shortage of engineers with postgraduate education and skills . . . can and absolutely must be reversed," says Waterloo Engineering's associate dean of graduate studies and international agreements in a Globe and Mail editorial published November 25.