Tuesday, April 23, 2013

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.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

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!