Young women with a passion for computer science, physics and engineering have received $12,000 scholarships under the University of Waterloo’s HeForShe IMPACT scholarship program.
More and more robots are definitely coming to the commercial world and a Waterloo Engineering researcher hopes to speed their arrival by developing cheaper, general-purpose control systems.
At the moment, the high cost of customized robotics applications in workplaces such as warehouses and manufacturing plants largely limits them to huge companies with plenty of money to invest.
Twenty-one researchers at the University of Waterloo, including ECE Professors Vijay Ganesh and Stephen Smith, will receive $2.3 million from the provincial government to build Ontario’s knowledge-based economy in Waterloo Region,
Kathryn McGarry, MPP for Cambridge, and Daiene Vernile, MPP for Kitchener Centre, made the announcement of 11 Early Researcher Awards (ERA) and 10 Ontario Research Fund-Research Infrastructure (ORF-RI) awards today as part of an investment in Waterloo region worth $3.6 million.
Four incoming first-year students at the University of Waterloo are recipients of Schulich Leader Scholarships, which encourage high school graduates to embrace science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in their future careers.
Colin Daly, from Hamilton, Ontario, has received $80,000 from the scholarship program towards his education in ECE's software engineering program.
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At least seven Waterloo Engineering alumni are in the running for prestigious Ontario entrepreneur awards sponsored by professional services firm Ernst & Young.
Dave Kroetsch of Aeryon Labs is one of seven Waterloo Engineering finalists for prestigious entrepreneur award.
Six Canadian innovations (including Waterloo's spin-off company KA Imaging), showing evidence of early promise for improving global health will "transition-to-scale" thanks to new support from Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Government of Canada. Read the full story.
Lin Tan is among 10 winners to be honoured in Mississauga on Nov. 19 at the 2016 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards gala. She has been cited for recognition by her peers at the event that will bring together industry innovators, business leaders and policy makers in November. Read the full story.
A Waterloo company has created the world's first microscopic atomic force microscope (AFM) and has big plans for the device.
"These instruments are normally really big, like, they would fill up a tabletop," said Duncan Strathearn, co-founder of nGauge. "They cost upwards of $500,000, you pretty much need a PhD to operate them because they're kind of complex."
A University of Waterloo team received the third Best Design Award in the 2016 IEEE AP-S/URSI design competition (IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium AP-S has been held annually since 1949). Fifty international teams competed with designs on electromagnetic energy harvesters. The work will be featured in a special issue of the IEEE Antenna and Propagation Magazine.
ECE Professors Manoj Sachdev and Zhou Wang were inducted as new Fellows into the Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 27, 2016. The Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) is the national institution through which Canada's most distinguished and experienced engineers provide strategic advice on matters of critical importance to Canada. See the full news release here.