Every year four University of Waterloo professors are honoured with a Distinguished Teacher Award. They will receive their awards at the 2015 Spring Convocation ceremonies being held between June 9-13.
We asked the four winners to reflect on how they engage millennial learners:
How do you go from being a new grad of an undergraduate engineering program - to studying for a PhD at Princeton University?
Members of the public are invited to attend the fourth annual High School Electric Vehicle Challenge taking place at the University of Waterloo on Saturday. The winning car will be on display at the 2016 Toronto International Auto Show.
Only one semester after its launch, the University of Waterloo’s new Grade 12 online math courseware is already being used by students and teachers in almost 90 countries - everywhere from Russia and China to the U.S. and Germany.
“We are thrilled to see the rapid spread of our courseware, and are glad that teachers and students are making use of it,” says Ian VanderBurgh, director of Waterloo’s Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing (CEMC).
From the time Eric Brown (BASc 1975, Civil; MASc 1978, Civil) was in grade 8, he knew he was going to pursue civil engineering.
Madelaine Liddy (BASc '14) has always had an interest in a wide range of subjects. Once she was in the engineering program at Waterloo, she took great interest in electronics and quantum mechanics, steering her into nanotechnology. Most students would be satisfied with the workload thrust upon them in engineering but Madelaine quickly realized she was missing something important: music. "I always found playing piano to be a big stress reliever," she explains.
With a long-awaited federal report on residential schools due to be released on June 2, Llewellyn says this is an important time to remember that first-hand historical accounts make an impact on the listener, and should be shared even if they paint a dark picture of Canada’s past.
A Waterloo graduate student with a rich family history in the Canadian military is among the first to receive an historic scholarship that honours Canada’s role in the liberation of the Netherlands in the Second World War.
The Dutch king and queen visited the University of Waterloo today and witnessed two of the world’s leading innovation universities announcing a new research and education collaboration that aims to advance the field of quantum computing.
Waterloo history professor Geoffrey Hayes has been researching Canada’s role in the Second World War for more than 30 years, but this year a study tour of Dutch battlefields held special significance.