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Waterloo Management Engineers Host 2016 IIE Student Conference

The University of Waterloo was proud to host the 36th Annual Canadian Student IIE Conference from January 21st through the 24th, 2016. The conference was a platform for knowledge sharing, competing, networking, and learning. Students competed in a variety of competitions such as technical paper, simulation, theoretical and case study competition.

Dematic Scholarship for Excellence in Supply Chain Optimization celebrates anniversary and strengthens partnership with Management Sciences

Pete Devenyi, Vice President Global Software Development, Dematic Corp; Fatma Gzara, professor, Management Sciences, UW; Waterloo Mayor David Jaworsky; and Scott Wahl Director of Global Software Development, Dematic Corp.

Management Sciences Launches New Data Analytics Courses

Big data is believed to be the key to the next wave of management innovation, productivity, and growth. Yet, there is a shortage of professionals who can glean meaningful insights from data to make effective decisions.

Hossein Abouee Mehrizi

Management Sciences, Management Engineer, Jordan Grant won this year's 24 hours of Waterloo contest. 24 hours of Waterloo winner named.

Jordan has built quite a media portfolio already in his previous co-op term in the Watcard office as the creator of Waterloo's Watcard video.

Mike Kirkup, Director of Waterloo's Velocity program, spoke to the Globe and Mail last Friday.

Congratulations to our 2015 undergraduate class!

This past week at the CORS/INFORMS 2015 conference in Montreal, Two Management Engineering (MGMT) teams won the top two prizes in the 2015 Student Paper Competition in the Undergraduate Category.  A third team was placed among the finalists (out of a total of 5 finalist teams from across Canada). Presented papers were all based on capstone design projects.

Management Engineering alumni Ari Paunonen (MGMT '12) and fellow Waterloo graduate, Mike Darlington sit down with Josh O'Kane of The Globe and Mail to talk about the music label they founded, it's success and how it's a big part of changes happening in the music industry.

Autodesk Canada Award 2015

Congratulations to our 4^th year Management Engineers; Hans Arijanto, Mike Kiss, Wessam Nasser and Kenny Leung from the protoSight team for their Autodesk Canada Capstone Design Award 2015.

Following last month's air disaster, over Ukrainian air space, BBC radio's James Coomarasamy, host of Newshour, got in touch with Management Science professor, Benny Mantin for a talk about the scrutiny airlines are under regarding their route planning and the economics behind it. 

MAJiK Works

Management Sciences, Management Engineering team MAJiK takes home second place in the Faculty of Engineering 90sC Student Video Competition. 

Congratulations to Michael Tatham, Adam Singer, Jared Evans and Kamal Aman on an innovative Capstone Design Project and the excellence you are achieving!