Events

This study examines how duration of patent examination is affected by technological diversity of patent applications, using a sample of all pharmaceutical patent applications filed between 1985 and 2017 at China’s State Intellectual Property Office (SIPO). Patent examination is a crucial process to evaluate the patentability of technological inventions. To understand what factors influence patent examination duration can offer strategic insights for both patent applicants and patent system designers.

Supervisor

Fatma Gzara

Committee chair

Perry Chou - Chemical Engineering

Examining committee

Fatma Gzara - Management Sciences

Samir Elhedhli - Management Sciences

Houra Mahmoudzadeh - Management Sciences

Ricardo Fukasawa - Combinatorics and Optimization

Supervisors

Qi-Ming He

Fatih Erenay

Committee chair

Jean-Pierre Hickey - Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering

Examining committee

Qi-Ming He - Management Sciences

Fatih Erenay - Management Sciences

Elizabeth M. Jewkes - Management Sciences

Stanko Dimitrov - Management Sciences

David Landriault - Statistics and Actuarial Science

Major Field

Management of Technology

Examining committee

Brian Cozzarin - Management Sciences

Selcuk Onay - Management Sciences

Margaret Dalziel - CBET

Jonathan Fugelsang - Psychology

Committee chair

Bonwoo Koo - Management Sciences

The four-part Canadian Blockchain Olympiad Training Camp programme to prepare Canadian students for entering the 2019 International Blockchain Olympiad (www.ibcol.org), a multidisciplinary design & building competition for solving real-world challenges through decentralised apps.

Join the Water Institute on March 1, in DWE 3518 to learn about AquaHacking 2019: a multi-stage competition that engages entrepreneurs, raising awareness of water issues and fostering their commitment to solving them.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni are welcome to watch the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) 2019 competition events. Various competitions in design, consulting, presentation and debate will take place throughout E7 from Friday, March 1 until Sunday, March 3.

On Saturday March 16 from 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m., the University of Waterloo and Impact Alliance will be teaming up to host the Global Solutions Conference!

Come watch the finalists of the 3MT faculty-based heats present their research in the 3MT university-wide final competition.

This year, the Management Engineering's Capstone Design Symposium is showcasing the capstone design projects of fifteen teams of senior students. Each of these teams has tackled an emergent problem, in many cases sourced from a client company, with far-reaching implications in industries and areas as diverse as education, retail, manufacturing, software, non-profits, airlines, government,  fashion, and self-improvement.

Themes of this year’s projects include data analytics, data-driven decision-making and the design of systems that leverage this information into effective products and solutions.  In order to create these comprehensive tools, management engineering projects are often highly multidisciplinary, drawing from concepts in information systems, process design, behavioral science, mathematical modelling and optimization, and data science.

There are many projects to discover, take a look at the 2019 Management Engineering Capstone Design Projects.