Career Panel Discussoin

Ever wondered what other non-academic careers are out there beside P.Eng, MD and DDS etc.? WISE is hosting a career panel discussion with four fabulous Carleton alumni! Join us on Oct 2nd from 6-8pm in PA 133! To RSVP visit the Events Page.

Go ENG Girl

Go ENG Girl will be taking place on Saturday October 19th - CU-WISE will once again be helping girls in grades 7-10 discover engineering at Carleton with fun hands-on activities. If you want to volunteer to help during this super fun day you can do so by signing up here.

Throwback Kids Activities

On Saturday September 21th from 10 am to 12 pm CU-WISE is teaming up with Virtual Ventures to run fun hands-on science and engineering activities for kids coming to Throwback at Carleton with their parents. We're looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help run activities. No experience necessary and we'll be hosting two info/training sessions on Thursday and Friday before the event to bring you up to speed. If you want to stay in the loop about details, please sign up here.

Kick Off!

Wednesday September 18th from 4 pm to 6:30 pm stop by to Mike's Place to meet us, meet other CU-WISE members and learn more about how to get involved, including how to become an Officer or Executive member. As always, we'll have snacks! To RSVP visit the Facebook Event.

2013 WISE Annual General Meeting

You are cordially invited to attend the 2013 WISE (Women in Science and Engineering) Annual General Meeting

Guest speaker: Prof. Hanan Anis, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa

Date and Time: May 2, 2013; 6-8 PM
Location: University of Ottawa, Colonel By Building, 161 Louis Pasteur,
Room A707. Parking is available in the Sports Complex parking garage.
RSVP: Please RSVP to banu_ormeci@carleton.ca by April 30th. Light dinner will be served, there is no admission fee.

Title: Women and entrepreneurship
Abstract: Have you ever wondered if you want to be an entrepreneur? If you have the attributes to be one? Based on her background as an entrepreneur as well as recent studies on the topic, Hanan will reflect
on her career path from entrepreneurship to academia and discuss the attributes that makes women particularly suitable to be entrepreneurs as well as those that makes many shy away from even entertaining the thought.

Biography: Hanan is an Associate Professor at the school of electrical engineering and computer science. Prior to joining the university in 2004, Hanan was the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Ceyba, an
optical long-haul networking company that employed 250 people at its peak. Hanan played an integral part in conceiving Ceyba's product architecture, formulating its business plan, and successfully raising over $100M in venture capital to finance operations. From 1994 to 2000, Hanan worked at Nortel Networks in different positions conducting research in various areas of photonics, ranging from device physics to optical networking. Hanan received Nortel's 1998 Innovation award for her work on wavelength locked lasers. Hanan holds a B.Sc from Ain-Shams University (1987), a M.A.Sc (1991) and a Ph.D (1996) from  University of Toronto all in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

CU-WISE Mentoring Year End Event

The CU-WISE Mentoring Team would like to invite you to a year-end event to celebrate eights months of hard work!

We are pleased to have Professor Banu Ormeci speaks about her journey to success. Dr. Ormeci is the Canada Research Chair in Wastewater Treatment Engineering, Associate Professor of The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Carleton University, the Ambassador for Canadian Association on Water Quality, and the Faculty Advisor for CU-WISE. Networking and boardgames time will follow the fantastic talk

Date: Friday April 26, 2013
Time: 5 pm – 7:30 pm
Location: Carleton University
Room: Minto 2014

Please RSVP at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6176904287 by Friday April 19, 2012.

Light dinner will be served so please RSVP for better estimation.

Non mentoring program participants are welcome!

Innovation - The most frustrating and rewarding experience you will EVER have

The process of seeing a problem as an opportunity, gaining a fundamental understanding of the nature of the problem/opportunity, having an idea for a better solution, and then building a business that will deliver that solution is fraught with great challenges and rewards. It is not for everyone. It will always require persistence, creativity, and openness to learning new things regardless of how many times you do it. And it is completely worth it. Successful innovations impact lives. There are ways to understand the value of opportunities and increase the likelihood of success. We will talk about the innovation process and some examples and how to increase your chances of a successful career in innovation.

Speaker: Lynn Leger
After completing a degree in Chemistry and an MBA, Lynn joined DuPont’s Automotive Coatings business where she held a variety of business, marketing and technical positions. Lynn then changed market focus and led new initiatives in Food Safety for DuPont including responsibility for leading major R&D initiatives in breakthrough disinfection technology. Lynn joined GreenCentre Canada in 2010 as a Director of Commercial Development and worked with universities across Canada to commercialize greener technologies. Lynn is a named inventor on 13 patent applications in technologies representing each of the different businesses with which she has been associated. She is a frequent speaker on innovation and green chemistry and will be chairing a session on commercialization of Green Chemistry at the American Chemical Society’s Green Chemistry Institute meeting this summer. Lynn is currently starting a new business, ALCERECO, that will develop and commercialize new Advanced Materials in a number of markets.


Date and Time: March 14, 2013; 4:30-6:30 PM
Location: Boardroom MC 2014, Minto Building, Carleton University Campus
RSVP: banu_ormeci@carleton.ca
This is an Ottawa-WISE event.