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Waterloo Engineering Alumni E-Letter Feature 

The November issue of the Waterloo Engineering Alumni E-Letter (eWEAL) had two features on Engineering Ideas Clinic and the exciting hands-on activities we are bringing to our students.  The articles on Architectural Engineering and their implementation of Engineering Design Days, and on Engineering 7

Monday, October 29, 2018

A place where robots rule

by Terry Pender Waterloo Region Record

University of Waterloo’s new engineering building is home to human-centred robotics research

WATERLOO — Pearl Sullivan is standing inside a room where robots will float above the ground thanks to magnetic levitation technology.

Engineering Design Days

Pitsco, the manufacturers of Tetrix and Tetrix Prime building systems, has featured the Engineering Ideas Clinic in its newsletter for the innovative use of Tetrix Prime kits in Engineering Design Days.

Waterloo Engineering expands programming for students with $3 million for more team projects and experiential learning outside the lecture hall

By Brian Caldwell
Faculty of Engineering

James Smith knelt at the foot of a mechanical contraption and slowly turned its crank to test the strength of a blue Styrofoam bridge he built with teammates at the University of Waterloo.

Educating engineers at the University of Waterloo got a major boost today with the announcement of more than $3 million in funding over five years for a variety of immersive, hands-on programs.

Activities organized by the Engineering IDEAs Clinic will range from two-hour, in-class projects such as taking apart internal combustion engines, to two-day, open-ended problems requiring students to work in teams and draw on all of their academic lessons to find solutions.