This fall, KI Senior Design Instructor Paul McKone designed and taught INTEG 375 Special Topics: Hands-on Sustainability, a real-world project course to rescue objects from the waste stream, determine why they were discarded, suggest how to refurbish them, and propose how to put them into the hands of those who can use them.
The Bachelor of Knowledge Integration is featured in the Fall 2018 issue of the University of Waterloo Magazine.
read the "Integrated Learning" article
KI student Chloé St. Amand will be a Student Moderator at the 2018 Latornell Conservation Symposium, a large, three-day conference/symposium with several hundred attendees from academia, the government, and private sectors.
This year is the 25th anniversary of Latornell, and the theme is "Land to Great Lakes - Relationship Status: It's Complicated". Her experience at the symposium will complement her studies in Knowledge Integration and Earth Sciences, specializing in Hydrogeology.
Join us as we celebrate the first decade of Knowledge Integration!
Since 2008, our public Seminar Series has started many conversations. To mark our first decade, we've invited some of our graduates back to tell us what they've done since embarking on their KI adventure.
We hope you can join us at one or more of our Fall 2018 KI Seminars to hear about the broad variety of activities our alumni have undertaken, and enter the continuing conversation.
The BKI class of 2018 convocated today, and another group of solution integrators are now out to change the world!
Here they are at our convocation reception:
Bronwyn McIlroy-Young, BKI'18 is presenting at the 2018 congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS). The congress in Halifax, NS, is an annual meeting of Canadian scientists and other professionals focused on atmospheric, ocean and earth sciences. She was invited by CMOS to present a poster of her KI senior research project on Canadian TV weathercasters and climate change communication.
The Journal of Integrative Research & Reflection (JIRR) is a new, cross-disciplinary undergraduate journal based out of the Department of Knowledge Integration.
JIRR is written, reviewed, and administered by students with the support of faculty and staff.
Congratulations to all of the students who collaborated and put in lots of hard work to make this great idea a reality. Check out JIRR Volume 1!
Congratulations to KI alum Jillian Anderson!
She's currently doing a Masters in Big Data at Simon Fraser University, and she and her teammates won the international Open AI Challenge hosted by WeRobotics.
The students developed a model that automatically analyzes aerial imagery of fruit trees to help prioritize the distribution of aid following natural disasters. It was a challenging problem and a very close competition.
Check out photos from the Amsterdam trip.
Writing in the prestigious journal Nature Climate Change, KI professor Vanessa Schweizer discusses the benefits and limitations of current approaches to integrated climate change research, which refers to studies that aim to inform policies for adapting to climate change or for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.
Such research relies upon (as well as informs future iterations of) large interdisciplinary efforts for knowledge integration, which are channeled through reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.