University of Waterloo

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The University of Waterloo (UW ) is a public research university in the city of Waterloo, Canada, about 100 km west of Toronto. The University was founded in 1957. 2010, it had 26,451 students and 3,505 graduate students and 1,047 faculty members.

Particularly well known is the University of Waterloo for their co - op program, a sort of part-time study, and for their mathematical and engineering disciplines.

Divisions

  • Faculty of Applied Health Sciences
  • University of Waterloo Faculty of Arts
  • University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering
  • University of Waterloo Faculty of Environment
  • University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics
  • University of Waterloo Faculty of Science

Cooperations

Exchange programs consist, among others, the University of Mannheim, Otto-Friedrich - University of Bamberg and the Technical University of Hamburg -Harburg. Together with the University of Mannheim Master's program " Intercultural German Studies" (Joint Degree) is offered. The oldest exchange program in the Faculty of Engineering will entertain the TU Braunschweig.

As part of the program since 2010 CANEU.Coop European students Canadian interns come to Waterloo and received in return in their home country. The Cooperative State University Baden -Württemberg, thereby allowing Canadian interns to work with their German exchange partners in their training company.

Famous alumni and professors

Lecturers

  • Rozena Maart (born 1962 ), South African lecturer in English literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis, and feminist writer

Graduates

  • Gail Bowen, Canadian writer, high school teacher and playwright
  • David Cheriton, mathematician and Stanford University professor and co-founder of Granite system.
  • Jonathan Dursi, physicist and researcher at the University of Toronto
  • Brad Goddard, actor
  • J. Alan George, Computer
  • Craig Eisler, mathematician and vice-president of Microsoft
  • Chris Hadfield, engineer, and astronaut of the CSA
  • Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion and Chancellor of the University of Waterloo
  • Manas K. Mandal, a biologist and director of the Defence Institute of Psychological Research
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