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LaTeX Workshop

LaTeX is a high quality, document preparation system to prepare professional research papers, lab reports and resumes. After this workshop you'll be able to edit and compile documents using LaTeX, learn how to navigate the software, and create:

• Tables, figures and graphs
• Mathematical formulas
• Chemical formulas and structures
• You'll also learn how to integrate useful packages into LaTeX

Watch the video, for an informative workshop on LaTeX (has similar features to Word, but does this in a flexible, intelligent, and aesthetically in pleasing manner)

How to Turn an Idea into a Product

Workshop materials from presentation held October 20, 2021

Have you had an idea that you think can change the world? Are you thinking of turning this into a business? Where do you start? What path should you follow?

Learn from FYELABS, a MacEng company that provides a one-stop shop for product development.

You will learn the many things that you need to do in order to turn an idea into a product or a business, including customer discovery, product development, marketing, sales, scaling the business, and more.

Facilitator: Suvojit Ghosh, Chief Executive Officer, FYELABS 

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Workshop: Amplifying your Research Through Op/Eds

Workshop material from presentation held November 10 and November 17m 2021

Writing op/eds for newspapers and articles for The Conversation can be effective, accessible ways for researchers to share their work with a non-academic audience.

Join Wade Hemsworth, public relations manager in McMaster’s Communications and Public Affairs office and former Spectator journalist as he virtually walks you through the op/ed process: what makes a good topic, elements of an effective op-/d and what supports the central communications team can offer.

The event will be recorded and made available afterwards.

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ACFAM “THRIVE” - Faculty Development Program

THRIVE aims to support the development of colleagues for thriving careers by creating a nurturing environment to advance scholarly, educational, professional and personal goals, and efficiently navigate the academic and professional environment for successful and rewarding careers.

Structuring a Successful NSERC Discovery Grant Workshop

Presentation material from the workshop held September 21, 2021

This workshop included a hands-on examination of a recent successful DG/DAS proposal, DG requirements that are new this round, and an exchange of ideas and questions & answers among the attendees. 

Facilitators: 

Jim Cotton, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering 
Wael El-Dakhakhni, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering