A recent Global News segment featured Jatin Nathwani, a professor in the Department of Management Sciences, who is also the founding director of the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy. Prof. Nathwani commented on the opportunity that economic recovery from COVID-19 presents for investments in green technologies.
Teachers in Pakistan have an extensive online resource to draw on during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to hundreds of graduate students in management sciences.
The students have spent more than three years building an online library of over 15,000 videos, assignments and exercises that follow the national curriculum by grade and subject.
Management Sciences professor Hossein Abouee Mehrizi was recently featured in an article by the Financial Post on what businesses must do to better weather future unexpected events that have the potential to disrupt at a large scale. According to Prof. Mehrizi, "directors may need to change their advice to companies so the focus shifts “from efficiency to resiliency.” This could lead to the creation of more “redundant” or local sourcing of supplies and larger buffers when it comes to equipment and personnel."
A team of 4th-year management engineering students were recently awarded $2500 from the Green House Social Impact Fund to support their social innovation startup. Danial Betres, Jonathan Dhanapala, and Victoria Li began working on the project as part of their 4th year capstone design courses. Emre is a cloud-based electronic medical record system that supports medical professionals providing healthcare to poeple in displacement camps.
Prof. Fatma Gzara and Gohram Baloch of the Department of Management Sciences recently conducted a study that looked at drone deliveries in the e-retail industry. It found that while demand for this new service is high, a slew of factors, including government regulations, technological limitations and pricing decisions, impact the feasibility of drone deliveries.
Management Sciences professor Lukasz Golab was recently featured in an article by University Affairs. The article provided an overview of data science research programs accros Canadian universities. According to Prof.
In a recent study, Management Sciences professor Lukasz Golab and graduate student Liuyan Chen used artificial intelligence (AI) and found support for the conventional wisdom that taking care of yourself makes you feel good. They built an AI computer model to identify key words in more than 700,000 anonymous online journal entries written by over 67,000 users of a mobile mood-tracking application. They found strong associations between positive moods and getting enough sleep, eating well and exercising.
A group of Management Sciences graduate students recently placed in the top 5 among 60 teams at the 2020 IMB Technology Consulting Competition. The competition, which took place at the Ivey Business School, is the "largest tech focused and student-run case competition in Canada".
The team members were Matthew Konski, Shahzeb Naveed, Zaryab Javaid, and Umer Azam - all enrolled in the Master of Management Sciences program.
A team of management engineering students was one of 4 winners at a recent Velocity Concept pitch competition. Stephanie Mills, Ian Kemp and Kaylyn Lau, all in their third year, are developing CodeGem, an analytics tool powered by machine learning to be built into GitHub’s review process. The team took home a cash prize of $5000.
Jack Forbes, a Management Engineering alumnus, was recently interviewed on his experience working for starts ups, starting one, and eventually being accepted to the Y Combinator, an influential start-up incubator.