From Silos to Synergy


The Conrad School is hosting a lunch hour Speakers' Series as part of the annual Global Entrepreneurship Week 2020 global awareness and celebration. Please join us to hear 30-45-minute presentations covering entrepreneurship topics.
The Conrad School is hosting a Speakers' Series as part of the annual Women Entrepreneurship Week 2020 global awareness and celebration.
Join us virtually on any of the following dates and times:
Tuesday, November 24th, between 12:00 p.m. and 12:45 p.m.
Thursday, November 26th, between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
Friday, November 27th, between 12:30 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Autonomous Driving at Intersections: A Critical-Turning-Point Approach for Decision Making.

Speaker: Prof. Mohamed Bakr
Title: Effective Teaching of Engineering Courses Using Flipped Classrooms
Date: 25 February, 2020
Time: 3pm
Location: EIT-3142
Invited By: Omar Ramahi

Because of massive urban expansion in China during the past three decades, China is confronted with a major challenge on how to wisely manage water within a complex urban system. An integrated water systems approach will be presented for tackling tough urbanization problems, such as waterlogging, black and odorous water, and ecosystem degradation within a large urban region.
Biography: Chunhui Liu is a second year MASc student in MME at University of Waterloo. He is a member of Multi‐Physics Interaction Lab (MPILab) and supervised by Prof. Jean‐Pierre Hickey. He received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Beihang University in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He is interested in the area of multiphase turbulent flow. He is currently working on prediction of ship maneuvering coefficients by numerical simulations.
In the first symposium of the Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society series, Martin Ford explores the ways in which AI and automation (aka, “robots”) are outpacing humans in a range of sectors, from education to law, agriculture to healthcare, management and beyond. He offers a realistic view of what the future of work—and your place in it—will look like.
Come watch the finalists of the 3MT faculty-based heats present their research in the 3MT university-wide final competition.

Dr. John S. Gero
Research Professor
Department of Computer Science and School of Architecture University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Research Professor
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study George Mason University
The talk will cover the following topics: