From a distance, it’s just possible to believe that University of Waterloo engineering professor Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini, who currently occupies the NSERC/ BlackBerry Industrial Research Chair in wireless communication, has a dull, dry and theoretical job in academia.
A leading international expert on the state of the world’s freshwater resources, NASA scientist and University of California professor Jay Famiglietti, will deliver “Water and Sustainability: 21st Century realities and the global groundwater crisis” on Thursday, April 28 at 4p.m. at the University of Waterloo’s Davis Centre.
The event is hosted at the University of Waterloo by Let’s Talk Science, an award-winning national charitable youth development organization.
In the mainstream media and even within some business meetings, terms like “data analytics,” “data science” and “big data” are used so interchangeably that they might almost seem like the same thing. When you’re focused on the kind of work Samir Elhedhli is pursuing, specific to management engineering, the distinctions between them are critical.
For many, the power it takes to wash our clothes, charge a cell phone, illuminate our homes at night is an invisible privilege, the kind of thing that’s easy to take for granted.
But for millions of people around the world, reliable access to electricity for even the simplest tasks remains out of reach. Changing that isn’t easy, but it is possible.
“We pitted drawing against a number of other known encoding strategies, but drawing always came out on top,” said the study’s lead author, Jeffrey Wammes, PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology. “We believe that the benefit arises because drawing helps to create a more cohesive memory trace that better integrates visual, motor and semantic information.”
Attendees have the opportunity to meet positive female role models, gain hands-on experience and meet other students their age from across Ontario with a shared interest in mathematics. Female graduates of Waterloo’s Faculty of Mathematics will take part in a mathematics career fair to answer questions about education, careers and experiences in the field of mathematics.
Date: Friday, April 22, 2016
Time: 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Her name is Amy, and even before she starts racing underwater, she’s already created a sea change in how a submarine student team at the University of Waterloo see the potential of engineering to pursue innovation.
During a six-month space mission, an astronaut’s cardiovascular system can age by up to 10 or 20 years. Professor Richard Hughson is working with astronauts aboard the International Space Station to better understand why.
University of Waterloo professor Richard Hughson conducting research with Chris Hadfield. Photo credit: Derrick Piontek
WATERLOO, Ontario, April 19, 2016 – Lockheed Martin (LMT) has invested $1.1 million into a research project that explores the design and feasibility of a mobile system that would reduce the work required by the heart and cardiac system for people engaging in a sustained period of exercise.
The investment was formally announced here today at the University of Waterloo’s Aerospace Defence Industry Forum, which featured speakers from Lockheed Martin Canada, National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE).