Main Speaker(s): Robert Antonishen, David Poirier, Michael Mulvenna, Dave Oosthuizen. Location: classroom. Video contains two MECH 492 groups' final project presentations. First group is Antonishen and Poirier, who created the Telami Corporation. They offer a product that would allow someone to use the internet and the phone within the same household. Second group is Mulvenna and Oothuizen who created Fly by Light, who offer a new variety of insect trap. Each group speaks about their marketting plan for their product, as well as sales predictions and insights on company management.
Main Speaker(s): John Easson, Claude Germain, Alex Walker. Location: classroom. One of the presentations for the 1989 Queen's University Entrepreneur Competition. Easson, Germain, and Walker describe their company Wildertyke and their product the Wilderpen, an outdoor playpen for infants. Easson gives an overview of the product. Afterwards Germain talks about the management of the company and goes further in-depth into the Wilderpen. Then Walker discusses the future business plan of Wildertykes.
Part 1. Main Speaker(s): Peter Trueman, Ruth Grier, Helen Cooper, Dr Tom Barton, Kevin Jardine, Peter Meyboom. Location: Grant Hall. Video begins with Trueman introducing the symposium's panelists. Afterwards Grier begins the discussion with a speech on how she would improve solid waste management with a focus on the three R's. Next Cooper talks on how municipalities can work to reduce solid waste. Dr Barton next proposes incinerating waste which cannot by directly reused. Next Jardine speaks on behalf of Greenpeace. Lastly Meyboom speaks on the benefits of composting.
Part 2. Begins with the continuation and conclusion of Meyboom's speech. Afterwards the panelists discuss each other's speeches amongst themselves. They later take questions from audience members.
Part 1. Main Speaker(s): D.O. Thompson. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. Begins with a man introducing Thompson, who then lectures the audience about the Non-Destructive Testing Program at Ames Lab for the remainder of the video.
Main Speaker(s): Paul Tonner, Paulo Cielo. Location: Donald Gordon Centre. First portion of video is a lecture by Tonner about gamma ray tomagraphy. Once his talk is over he answers questions from the audience. Second portion consists of Cielo talking about thermal techniques for non-destructive evaluation. The end of his lecture is cut off in the video, and resumes in tape 8.
Main Speaker(s): Dr Robert de Pencier. Edited video highlighting the effects of the 1988 Entrepreneurship Initiative Proposal. Begins with Dr de Pencier talking about the proposal. Cuts to clips of the speakers from the Creating New Ventures Speaker Series. Afterwar cuts to the lecture Developing a Market Plan by Ken Wong. Next shows clips from the 1990 MECH 492 class' final presentations, as well as the MECH 892 graduate course's final presentations.
Main Speaker(s): Constance Backhouse. Location: MacDonald Hall. Video is of a lecture by Backhouse on Clara Brett Martin, the first Canadian woman to be granted entrance to a law school. Backhouse talks about her journey to becoming a lawyer, the backlash experienced by Martin, and controversy surrounding her life.