About this Event Professional Development Series: Resume building and LinkedIn profile management workshop. Abstract: With the onset of the pandemic from early March 2020, nearly everything from shopping groceries to job recruitment is being virtualized. It completely changed the landscape for graduating students to get a job. Not just students even organizations are finding it difficult to recruit the perfect candidate for the position. Are you a recent graduate student looking for a job? Are you in your final term of school and wondering how to get your dream job? IEEE WIE Ottawa along with IEEE YP Ottawa brings to you Professional Development Series! Join us in a 2-day workshop to get your doubts cleared about Resume building, Creating a LinkedIn profile, and how to apply for jobs online from a professional. Speaker Biography: Sherin Nilam is an experienced Career Counselor, helping international students with their career journey by offering Resume editing strategies, Cover letter writing, Interview preparation, LinkedIn profile management, and other career-related advice. Her career tactics have been effective for many students to successfully land their dream jobs in Canada. Schedule: March 6, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm : Resume building March 7, 2021 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm : LinkedIn profile management Register

If you are an engineering undergraduate or post-graduate student, or a recent graduate starting out your engineering career, then this seminar might be for you. In it you will learn: What is PEO? What engineering experience is PEO looking for once I graduate? I have international engineering education and experience; how is that evaluated by PEO? How is my engineering experience evaluated by PEO? How do I prepare my Experience Record? What is the PPE? What is the EIT Program and the Student Membership Program? Emphasis of this webinar will be on the P. Eng. licensure process – what PEO is looking for. The webinar will focus on how engineering experience is evaluated and how you can facilitate the process. Learn the dos and don’ts of preparing your licensing application for evaluation. To participate, you will require: internet connection to view the webinar, and/or phone access to dial into the conference for audio. We look forward to speaking with you! This event is organized by IEEE Young Professionals Ottawa in partnership with Professional Engineers Ontario, IEEE Women in Engineering and IEEE Youn Professionals Montreal. Register Now: https://bit.ly/YPPEO21  

About this Event Environmental Entrepreneurship: Bridging Gap between Innovation and Function Abstract: Environmental challenges of the current century are systemic threats to the fabric of our civilization. In this context, environmental entrepreneurship has emerged as a key mitigation concept that combines economic and environmental dimensions by leveraging state-of-the-art technology innovations. Seeing entrepreneurship through the lens of engineering innovation is crucial to produce actionable theory for sustainable technology. But what are the environmental entrepreneurship elements, challenges, and success factors? How can researchers, technology innovators, and entrepreneurs connect to this emerging field? This seminar introduces environmental entrepreneurship as the process of discovering, evaluating, and exploiting market forces that allow to have effective and fast business cases in environmentally-relevant markets. The seminar will also discuss views on bridging academic innovation and technology productization to deliver pragmatic solutions to environmental challenges of the planet.   Speaker Biography Dr. Mostafa Farrokhabadi is the Senior Director of Technology at BluWave-ai, an internationally award-winning startup offering data-driven control and optimization solutions for smart grids. He has 10 years of experience in designing mission-critical grid solutions for industry and academia, including technical leadership of a $6M international consortium in Electric Grid Modernization, and Smart Grid projects with Hatch and Canadian Solar. Mostafa has authored/co-authored several high-impact technical papers and patents on intelligent control and optimization of renewable-penetrated grids. Mostafa obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He has also studied and performed research in Sweden at KTH and Germany at KIT. Mostafa has received multiple business, research, and teaching awards, including the prestigious University of Waterloo Doctoral Thesis Completion Award and Ottawa's Forty Under 40. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid and IEEE DataPort, and Secretary of IEEE Ottawa Section. Register now! https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/enviropreneurship-bridging-the-gap-between-innovation-and-function-tickets-130139118607