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The University of Waterloo is awarding Entrepreneurial Ph.D. Fellowships to support outstanding, business-minded Waterloo doctoral students who are interested in commercializing their research.

The Department of Systems Design Engineering is delighted to announce that we will be holding our annual Graduate Symposium again in 2022! The symposium will take place on Thursday, June 23, 2022 in Faculty Hall (PSE 7th floor room 7363).

The deadline to register for the Symposium is June 17, 2022.

Abstract

In 2019, Africa accounted for only 5% of global energy demand and 3.7% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions. However, global projections show that Africa’s rapid urbanisation will contribute to rising energy use and emissions, both regionally and globally.

Women’s pelvic floor disorders: half of all women will suffer from them and little is said about this silent epidemic. How breakthroughs in technology are making a difference.

This session seeks to share lessons learned regarding embedding EDII into grant applications. Dr. Trevor Charles will discuss his experience embedding EDI principles to his research group and in a recent NSERC grant application.

Join for a special seminar presentation with Austin Roorda, Professor, UC Berkeley, Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision. 

Are you interested in quantum mechanics or cryptography?

Then check out CPI's next event on Feb 28th from 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Learn how quantum computers can create security risks and how we can mitigate them!

CPI's Michele Mosca and Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh discuss why it is important to act now, even though cryptographically-relevant quantum computers are not available.

Research seminar 

Research seminar 

Robotic teammates have the unique advantage and challenge that we have the ability to design them, and while we may know what we desire in a teammate, actually manifesting those characteristics is difficult.  In order to achieve the goal of creating our desired teammate it requires a greater understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the design elements as well as ourselves.  In this presentation Paul Stegall will present prior work on the use of exoskeleton devices for rehabilitation and pathology identification, current work on human abi