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

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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March 12, 2025, 4:30pm-5:30pm - Integrated Engineering Career Session

• Conversation with IE Alum (4:30 pm): Adam Gasch, Consultant, Corporate Finance & Restructuring at FTI Consulting
• Networking with IE team (5:30 pm)
• Tips on preparing for internships and Co-op, with IE students currently on internship (5:45 pm): Maya Archer (McCormick Canada) & Makena Murungi (IPEX Inc.)
• Coaching and feedback on student resumes, with IE interns (6:15 pm)
• Registration required (one registration for the entire event). Alumni session is virtual; Internship session is in-person (space limited): 

 

 

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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, 11:30am-1:30pm - Integrated Engineering Alumni Session

Haida Liu & John Vergeer

Information TBA

 

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

Usher (Jinse) Li, Consultant, EY-Parthenon

 

 

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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 4:45pm-6pm - Integrated Engineering Alumni Session

Guest Speaker, Natalya Whitla BESc Integrated Engineering & HBA Bain Associate Consultant | SHAD fellow  

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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, 12:30pm-1:30pm, SEB2099 - Thompson Fellow Special Lecture on Applied Ethics of AI

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