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April 25, 2025:  Sustainability, Food and AI Conference (9:00am-5:00pm)

Held at the The Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources (ICFAR), this Conference brings together key researchers and business leaders in the agri-food sector to explore opportunities in addressing sustainability challenges through innovation with AI and open source collaboration for a sustainable food system. The conference will include a tour of Western Innovation for Renewable Energy Deployment (WIRED), and a keynote by Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe. For more information, visit: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/tc/research/sustainability_food_and_ai_conference.html 

 

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April 2, 2025: IE Sudent News - 2024-25 Western Engineering Competition (November 8-10, 2024)

Nicholas Crees (Integrated+HBA) and Mike Botelho (Software) won the Consulting category of the 2024-25 Western Engineering Competition. Congratulations! 2024-2025 Winners | WEC. Year 2 and Year 3 students are highly encouraged to plan for WEC participation in 2025-26!

 

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March 12, 2025: Integrated Engineering Career Session

We received valuable insights for students preparing for Co-op and Intership, as well as on preparing for transition into professional roles following graduation.

Speaker: Adam Gasch, Consultant, Corporate Finance & Restructuring at FTI Consulting
BESc Integrated Engineering/HBA '24

Speakers: IE students currently on internship, Maya Archer (McCormick Canada) & Makena Murungi (IPEX Inc.)

Clips from recording will be available soon!

 

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March 11, 2025: Thompson Awards News - Congratulations, 2024-25 Recipients!

John M. Thompson Award for Engineering Leadership and Innovation 2024-2025:

1. Elijah Cook (Civil + AISE)
2. Julianna Quondamatteo (Integrated)
3. Omar Sayyed (Integrated)
4. Anita So (Integrated)
5. Kevin Shang (Integrated)

 

John M. Thompson HBA/BESc Scholarship 2024-2025

1. Simon Hungate (Mechatronics/HBA)
2. Christian Goff (Software/HBA)

 

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March 6, 2025: Integrated Engineering Alumni Session (11:30am-1:30pm)

Speaker: Haida Liu, P.Eng., PMP, M.Eng. - Engineer | Capacity Planning & Grid Innovation | Toronto Hydro
BESc Integrated Engineering '16

Speaker: John Vergeer - Project Manager | Burns & McDonnell
BESc Integrated Engineering/HBA '23

We were privileged to host two sessions with our IE alumni, one with Haida Liu and one with John Vergeer. Highlight recordings will be available soon.

Haida spoke on the complex portfolios she has held in her professional roles as an Integrated Engineering alum. Her insights explain the unique strengths of the IE training in one's early-stage career, and the strengths that become more obvious in later stages of one's career in Engineering. 

John shared his journey of unexpected discoveries and situations requiring resilience. His insights will encourage you to stay open in your Engineering Education journey, reflect on the value of your experiences and articulate the meaning behind the decisions you make in each step. 

 

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February 27, 2025: Integrated Engineering Alumni Session (6:00pm-7:00pm)

Speaking on passion, solution design through inquiry in multi-stakeholder environment, and multidisciplinary collaboration, Usher shares his inspiration for those in the Engineering Education journey. 

Speaker: Usher (Jinse) Li, Consultant, EY-Parthenon
BESc Integrated Engineering/HBA '24

 

Highlights from the recording will be available soon!

 

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February 13, 2025: First Year Discipline Fair

Our second-year and third-year Integrated Engineering students engaged with the first year students who visited the IE table, to learn more about our program as they prepare for their Intent-to-Register (ITR) submissions. It was a busy hour, and we really enjoyed the thoughtful questions from the first year students, and the conversations we had. Thank you volunteers! (In the photo: Shay, Eliza, Jamey, Pravanya, Salim, Minha. Missing from photo: Rachelle, IE YR3 Class Rep)

 

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February 12, 2025: IE Students News - Major League Hacking SheHacks

Congratulations to IE Student Kashish Mehrotra and team for finishing 1st out of 48 Teams at Major League Hacking SheHacks!! The team won First Place and Best Hardware Hack. Click here to read more. 

 

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Feburary 4, 2025: Integrated Engineering Alumni Session (4:45pm-6pm)

Speaker: Natalya Whitla, Bain Associate Consultant | SHAD fellow
BESc Integrated Engineering/HBA '23

 

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January 22, 2025: Integrated Engineering Club (IEC) Event - Toyota Tour (Cambridge, ON)

The IEC team, including the IEC execs and Faculty Advisor (Prof. Laurie Lockington-Wong), organized and delivered a success visit to Toyota Cambridge for an exciting, insightful tour! Many first- and second-year students benefitted from this event, and were able to connect with upper year Integrated Engineering students and faculty. 

 

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January 9, 2025: Thompson Fellow Special Lecture on Applied Ethics of AI (12:30pm-1:30pm, SEB2099)

Robot ethicist and Western alumna, Dr. Aimee van Wynsberghe, is the Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Applied Ethics of AI, the Director of the Institute for Science and Ethics, and will be visiting from the University of Bonn, Germany. She played an important role as part of the European Commission High Level Expert Group on AI.

Dr. van Wynsberghe will address some fascinating topics:

• Trustworthy AI, founded on human rights
• Value-centred design (VSD) and testing
• Care-centred ethics
• Attentiveness, reciprocity, privacy, security
• EU AI Act - risk-based, now ratified, in progress of being enacted
• OECD - big tech principles
• Canadian Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA)

For more information featured on Western News: https://news.westernu.ca/2021/02/robot-ethics-alumna/

For information on her upcoming keynote at the Sustainability, Food and AI Conference (April 25, 2025): https://www.eng.uwo.ca/tc/research/sustainability_food_and_ai_conference.html