During the first week of Civil Engineering’s foundational course, Bob McKillop takes an informal poll of the class.
“How many of you think the admissions department made a mistake when they let you in?”
Typically, he says, nearly half of his students raise their hands.
He can relate.
The University of Waterloo today named Joanne Shoveller as vice-president, advancement, effective January 1, 2017. Shoveller is currently associate dean, advancement and alumni relations at INSEAD, The Business School for the World.
Applied Health Sciences Professor Laura Middleton
With clinical drug trials failing to live up to expectations, researchers are looking at another way to fight dementia: exercise.
Studies show that people who are physically active have 40 per cent lower risk of dementia, possibly due to the growth of new neurons and blood vessels in the brain.
Matt Rose figures he learned more in high school as a member of the prize-winning electric car team than he did in a lot of his academic classes.
But as he starts the mechatronics engineering program at the University of Waterloo this fall, the lasting lesson he brings with him has as much to do with repeated failure as it does with eventual success.
“Nothing works the first time,” said Rose, 17. “You’ve always got to figure out a solution to a problem that you didn’t see coming.”
The University of Waterloo is appointing Jay Shah, a former startup co-founder and Waterloo alumnus, as director of its flagship entrepreneurship program, Velocity – the largest free startup incubator in the World.
Shah joins Velocity from Google where the entrepreneur has worked since the tech-giant acquired the company he co-founded in 2012.
That problem, he says, is your best bet at a great fourth-year design project or even a future business.
What does it mean to say a quantum system is in superposition? And more important: Why should we care?
The reality is - from highly secure communications to ultra-sensitive devices and super-powerful computers - quantum mechanics will change the way we live, work and play. And while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau grabbed media attention recently when he delivered a one-minute quantum lecture, many of us don’t have even a basic understanding of the science that’s driving this technological revolution.