“I had the revelation that I’m not great at memorizing things, which is essential in becoming a doctor,” she says. “My strengths lie in understanding and applying concepts so I thought I could do well in the field of engineering.”
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) has awarded $5.5 million to the University of Waterloo to lead a national team of experts in developing sustainable strategies for dealing with hazardous mine wastes.
A conversation and book signing with the Governor General will take place at the new Hagey Hub, in the Hagey Hall addition, on Friday, October 21, 2016, at 5 p.m.
Highlights of Waterloo's fall convocation will include:
Friday, October 21, 10 a.m.
Applied Health Sciences and Science
Professor Corey Johnson wasn’t always a champion for gender equality. It’s a torch, he says, that was picked up rather accidentally about 15 years ago.
The University of Waterloo will host 150 girls with their parents on Saturday to explore what a future in engineering can hold for them.
Ben Schwegler, senior vice-president and chief scientist at Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development, will present insights into new conceptual models and technologies required for sustainability, as China seeks to build a city the size of Toronto, from the ground up, every year for the next 20 years. Sponsored by TD, the hour-long lecture takes a view from the front lines of this amazing real-world challenge.
Schwegler is also a consulting professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University.
There were many days Jeffrey Azzolin felt like giving up and moving on to something else.
Two years into his effort to build a better blade for hockey skates, the University of Waterloo graduate was right back to square one, wracking his brain for an entirely new design that would both work and be financially viable.
QUANTUM: The Exhibition features interactive activities, games and videos to engage visitors in quantum concepts including superposition, entanglement and wave/particle duality. It opens to the public on Friday, October 14 at THEMUSEUM in Kitchener and runs until January 2017.
The strength of the interaction between photons and a qubit was so large that it opens the door to a realm of physics and applications unattainable until now.
The results appear in the paper, “Ultrastrong coupling of a single artificial atom to an electromagnetic continuum in the nonperturbative regime,” published in Nature Physics.