Nobel Prize winner Professor Donna Strickland (bottom right) from the University of Waterloo was the keynote speaker at ESEC 2021. She is seen answering student questions during the Q&A.
What is ESEC?
The Engineering Science Education Conference, or ESEC, is a unique annual conference held every January just for Engineering Science students. The goal of ESEC is for you to expand your horizons: you will start to see the many opportunities open to you with an EngSci degree. You’ll hear firsthand from professionals who’ve taken a wide range of (sometimes surprising!) career paths broadly related to the subjects you study in our program.
In the past, we have had highly accomplished speakers like Donna Strickland (Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018), Anna Goldenberg (AI Canadian Institute For advance Research (CIFAR) Chair and Senior Scientist in Genetics and Genome Biology program at SickKids Research Institute), and Geoffrey Hinton (Vector Institute, U of T).
On top of attending remarkable talks, EngSci students are given the unique opportunity to chat one-on-one with the speakers and ask them anything in informal settings. And there’s a festive reception at the end of the day and you are invited!
While ESEC has been held online for the past two years, we hope to be able to run the conference in-person this year!
Fireside Chats at ESEC[Source]
Who Runs ESEC?
One of the most amazing things about ESEC is that it is run in part by upper-year EngScis for younger EngScis. This student exec team works hard to find speakers for the conference and bring the student perspective to the event’s planning.
Your ESEC 2024 student executive team is
Stephanie Lu, Co-Chair | EngSci 2T5 Aerospace
Sneha Balaji, Co-Chair | EngSci 2T5 Machine Intelligence
Esther Zhou, Operations Director | EngSci 2T5 Math, Statistics, and Finance
Shahd Abu Gharbieh, Communications Director | EngSci 2T6
