A Waterloo project designed to reflect an optimistic and inclusive environment is part of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale.
The following opinion piece by Mary Wells, dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and Suzanne Kresta, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Saskatchewan ran on December 6, 2020 in CBC's Opinion section. It's reposted with permission.
Mary Wells considered herself an engineer rather than a woman in engineering when she graduated from McGill University in 1987.
It wasn’t until the December 6, 1989 killing of 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal that she realized the significance of her gender in the profession for the first time.
Pearl Sullivan, the University of Waterloo’s former dean of engineering and the first woman to hold the position, died on November 28 after a 12-year battle with cancer.
Just the fifth woman across Canada to head a school of engineering, she was a dynamic force for Waterloo Engineering and the entire University.
Alan Plumtree, who helped put the University of Waterloo on the map as an inventor of a pump that provides clean drinking water to developing countries, died suddenly on November 5.
Plumtree, a Waterloo mechanical engineering professor, and Alfred Rudin, a Waterloo chemistry professor, created the hand-operated pump in the late 1970s after being approached by the International Development Research Centre.
The co-op program at Waterloo Engineering was a major draw for an incoming student who will start her studies this fall with backing from a prestigious scholarship worth up to $100,000.
Anson Yu of Langley, BC, is the latest Loran Scholar to choose Waterloo after landing a four-year scholarship aimed at finding and supporting high-potential young Canadians.
Ralph Haas, distinguished professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, died suddenly on June 19 at the age of 87.
Haas, whose pioneering concepts and technologies resulted in better-performing and less costly road networks, was known throughout the engineering world as 'the father of pavement asset management.'
Mariko Shimoda
Faculty of Engineering (BASc '20)
Mariko Shimoda is officially graduating this week with a University of Waterloo engineering degree, a full-time position with the company she worked for during her last co-op term and invaluable experience gained from volunteering over the past five years.
The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced the world to reconsider the way we live — right down to the structures that house us.
With more information surfacing on the transmission of the virus every day, professionals in architecture and design are re-imagining what a post-COVID society might look like.
It’s also prompting organizations to take a closer look at the layout of their quarters.
A new collaboration between the School of Architecture and Cambridge’s Self-Help Food Bank is one of these latest initiatives magnified by COVID-19.
We are now trained to believe that being smart is to stay home, being socially connected is better online, and going to school is no more than rolling to the other side of the bed and turning on your computer, pyjamas optional.