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.

Navigating Career Success

The Ottawa Chapter of WISE is proud to present an excellent event for young scientists and engineers that are going into the job market. The 2013 Event Series: Navigating Career Success is a discussion of four professional women who will share their advice and experiences as well as take questions from the audience to help them as they enter the job market. The event is Thursday January 17 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. and I highly recommend it! 

Panel Speakers:
Margaret McKay, M.Sc., LL.B., National Research Council of Canada
Josephine Davidson, Environment Canada
Mia Batchelor, Environment Canada
Michelle Illing, Ph. D., Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Date and Time: January 17, 2013; 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: Boardroom MC 2014, Minto Building, Carleton University Campus.
RSVP: Please RSVP to banu_ormeci@carleton.ca.
There is no admission fee!

CU-WISE Women in Research

CU-WISE cordially invites you to the upcoming CU-WISE Women in Research event that is set to take place on December 6th, 2012 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in room C264 of the Loeb building at Carleton! This event aim’s to highlight the diverse research that the female undergraduate, graduate and faculty of Carleton University are actively involved in, in the hopes of inspiring a budding scientist or engineer. 

The event is open to high school students, undergraduate students and anyone else who might be interested. A schedule of the speakers is soon to come! If you would like to attend, please let us know by filling our our RSVP form by clicking here. 

Tentative Schedule for CU-WISE Women in Research

Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon in honour of Ada Lovelace Day

The Wikimedia Foundation and the Royal Society in the UK are holding a Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon in honour of Ada Lovelace Day and have invited CUWISE to join in remotely.

Ada Lovelace is frequently cited as having been the first computer programmer, even though there were no computers during her lifetime (1815-1852), because she was a mathematician and worked with algorithms which have since been recognized as computer programs. Ada Lovelace day is an annual event to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering, and math. So as a tribute to past scientists, mathematicians, and engineers, we will be dusting off the Wikipedia editing skills we learned last month and putting them to work again.

Both new and experienced editors are welcome.
Please bring a laptop (if you have one).

Date: Friday, October 19
Time: 1:30-3 pm
Location: 3444 ME

For more information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Royal_Society#Online_participants

Go ENG Girl

Go ENG Girl is a half day event for Grade 7-10 girls across Ontario to visit their local university to learn about the wonderful world of engineering: "A Caring Profession." Go ENG Girl is scheduled for Saturday October 13, 2012 at Carleton University.

To sign up as a volunteer please click here.

For more information about Go ENG Girl, including a list of participating universities please visit www.ospe.on.ca/gognggirl.