News archive - July 2018

Monday, July 30, 2018

Waterloo co-op harnesses AI in predictive hiring pilot

Plum and the University of Waterloo announce partnership

Starting this fall, Co-operative and Experiential Education will be piloting Plum.io’s predictive hiring platform to help better connect co-op students with the 7,000+ employers that recruit from Waterloo each year.

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Co-op students build first-of-its-kind machine in Canada

Students and professor Kevin Musselman pose with ribbon cutters Sushanta Mitra, Jan Huissoon and Ross Johnston

By Lily Roth, co-op student

With the help of seven University of Waterloo co-op students, Canada’s first Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition (SALD) system is up and running. At the celebratory ribbon cutting on May 10, 2018, project leader Professor Kevin Musselman said he couldn’t have done it without the co-op students who helped design and build the machine.

“I was sitting at my desk the whole time. I don't think I ever lifted a finger so it was entirely built by the students,” laughs Musselman.

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Waterloo Pharmacy celebrates Costco, long-time supporter of the School

Waterloo Pharmacy celebrates Costco, long-time supporter of the School

By Alana Rigby

Co-op is what makes Waterloo Pharmacy unique: we’re the only co-operative education pharmacy school in Canada. Offering a co-op program is challenging and requires the support of the pharmacist community all across the country. Without employers to consistently hire students and offer invaluable learning opportunities, our program would not be possible.