This year the University of Ottawa will launch the inaugural Spring Alumni Weekend,an event you won’t want to miss! All sorts of activities are in store for Engineering and Science alumni and their families.

This is your chance to come back to your alma mater and reminisce about your “glory days” on campus. 

Presented by Dr. Catherine Mavriplis, the NSERC Chair in Women in Science and Engineering Leadership (Ontario).

“The engineering profession is going through exceptional change. It requires an increasingly broad range of skills and know-how to solve increasingly complex problems in a rapidly changing economic environment. Companies are looking for engineers with a harmonious balance of sophisticated technical competencies and refined intra- and interpersonal skills in communication, teamwork, management, creativity, social responsibility, and sensitivity to ethics and sustainable development.

The advent of fiber optics in the 1960s has led to the most rapid development of high speed telecommunication networks. Nowadays the uses of optical fibers are extending into diverse fields ranging from sensorial applications to spectroscopic measurements, from illuminating sources to biomedical images. In this talk I will describe fabrication techniques for several optical fiber devices, such as polymer-coated fiber Bragg gratings, tapered fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometers, femtosecond laser inscribed long period fiber gratings, fiber core mode attenuators, and fiber bandpass filters.