Outstanding graduate students are vital to our success as a research-intensive
university!
Graduate Students at Waterloo graduate with the knowledge, skills, and
practical experience required to solve today’s complex and pressing
problems and to embrace future challenges. Our eminent Faculty help to make
that possible.
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Graduate Student Research Conference
The annual Graduate Student Research
Conference provides an opportunity to:
- profile and promote graduate studies at Waterloo
- highlight the types of research currently taking place
- facilitate the sharing of that information
- encourage and foster more interdisciplinary research on campus
About Research at Waterloo
- Waterloo is the national leader in the transfer of ideas and technology
to the private sector. More Canadian high-tech and knowledge-based spin-off
companies, such as those listed below, trace their roots to the University
of Waterloo than to any other school.
| Biorem Technologies |
Certicom |
| Dalsa |
Dantec Systems |
| EnviroMetal Technologies |
Ice Biotech |
| Open Text |
EnviroMetal Technologies Inc. |
| Intelligent Mechatronic Systems |
Mercator Robotec |
| Open Text |
Research in Motion |
| Senesco Technologies |
SiRiFIC Wireless |
| TurboSonic Technologies |
Virtek Visions International |
| VMP Technologies |
Wastewater Science |
| Waterloo Barrier |
Waterloo Maple |
- External research funding in 2008/09 was $141.1 million
- Number of Canada Research Chairs - 60
- Number of Industry Research Chairs - 13
- Participate in 17 National Centres of Excellence
- Formal international connections include 250 linkage agreements in
56 countries
- The recently established David
Johnston Research + Technology Park on Waterloo’s North Campus
strengthens Waterloo’s position as a leader in the transfer of technology
and ideas to the private sector.
- Nora Doerr-MacEwen, Planning, research in water contamination by pharmaceuticals
earned her a 2004 Trudeau Foundation Doctoral Scholarship.
- Karim S. Karim, PhD '03, ECE, received one of four national NSERC doctoral
prizes awarded in 2004 for his work in diagnostic medical imaging.
- Since 1991, eight NSERC doctoral prizes have gone to Waterloo graduate
students.
See the Office
of Research for a comprehensive list of research Centres, Institutes
and Groups at Waterloo.
View the Full Spectrum of Research Brochures.
Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) -Canadian Graduate Student
Research Mobility Agreement (CGSRMA)
The Canadian Graduate Student Research Mobility Agreement allows graduate
students to complete or enhance their research by spending time at another
university within Canada. It is hoped that this experience will foster an
exchange of ideas, provide specialized training, research collaboration, and
interdisciplinarity. For more information on this agreement, please refer
to the
CAGS website.
