The University of Waterloo’s Department of Systems Design Engineering has received a $10.5M gift from alumni David J Cornfield and Linda Archer Cornfield for the establishment of the George Soulis Chair in Systems Design Engineering. Dr Katherine Sellen will serve as the inaugural chair. The gift has also been used to fund several other initiatives including facility upgrades, a Clinician-in-Residence mentorship program, a new NGO and charity-focused co-op program for Systems Design Engineering students, and new courses. “This gift is directly elevating our students’ learning by embedding ethics and societal context into engineering education and expanding hands-on opportunities,” said UWaterloo Systems Design Engineering Chair Dr Lisa Aultman-Hall.
