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May 21 2013 Prestigious branding award won by architecture student

School of Architecture student Sam Vickars won the 2013 Best of the Year in the Branding Category of the Student Design Awards by D&AD Awards in London England. The annual awards are regarded as a major event in the world of design and advertising. [D&AD website]

May 21 2013 Students victorious at microrobotics challenge in Germany

A team of undergraduate students comprised mainly of Waterloo Engineering students won an international microrobotics competition, and did so in less than one second.

The Mobile Microrobotics Challenge took place at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Waterloo team won the Autonomous Mobility Challenge, where the microrobots must autonomously navigate a track in the shape of a figure eight.

May 21 2013 Architecture grad student wins international film award

James Anthony Usas, a School of Architecture master's student, has been honoured with a Gold Remi for Experimental Drama for his film House of the Gathering, by the 2013 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, based in Houston. House of the Gathering is based on the history of Kitchener, starting from when the city was known as Berlin. It was an official selection at the 2012 Grand River Film Festival and a feature-length version will go into production next April as part of the Multicultural Cinema Club's P3 Program.

May 16 2013 Management engineering grads win upcoming engineers contest

May 15 2013 Systems design engineering chair reappointed

May 10 2013 Engineering student research presentations captured on video at 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition

May 6 2013 New grad fellowships launched for energy research

May 6 2013 Long-serving associate dean reappointed

May 3 2013 Student team captures first in LaunchPad competition

May 1 2013 New director for WatPD-Engineering

Apr 30 2013 Crash sled lab featured on Daily Planet

Apr 19 2013 Engineering students win top prize in national sustainable contest

Apr 18 2013 Environmental engineering students take first place at WERC

Apr 16 2013 Recent civil grad student honoured with top paper prize

Mar 27 2013 ECE student wins exceptional teaching award

Mar 27 2013 Civil engineering student captures first in national entrepreneurial contest

Mar 26 2013 Engineering students help sweep university to curling gold

Mar 26 2013 Ng receives green chemistry and engineering award

Mar 26 2013 Professors honoured for distinguished teaching

Mar 22 2013 Alumna named Woman Architect of the Year

Mar 8 2013 Hydro One announces Women in Engineering Partnership

Mar 5 2013 Chemical engineering student swings to gold

Feb 26 2013 Engineering entrepreneurs take top Nicol competition awards

Feb 25 2013 Wired article features alumni startup

Feb 25 2013 Engineering alumni in the 2013 Waterloo Region 40 Under 40

Feb 22 2013 Engineering research for a safer, greener vehicle receives financial support

Feb 11 2013 Innovative engineering projects awarded NSERC funding

Feb 5 2013 New chair and director for mechanical and mechatronics engineering

Feb 4 2013 Waterloo Engineering start-ups featured in New York Times

Jan 24 2013 Architecture professor a finalist in national book contest

Jan 23 2013 New partnership will drive electric vehicle performance

Jan 15 2013 Intelligent automotive research receives federal funding

Jan 9 2013 Management Sciences professor quoted in article about Facebook

Dec 21 2012 Change in leadership for WatCAR

Dec 14 2012 CEE professor and students win water distribution design challenge

Dec 14 2012 Researchers receive Carbon Management Canada funding for projects

Dec 10 2012 ECE PhD student wins best paper award

Dec 7 2012 Associate dean of outreach recalls memories of Dec. 6 1989

Dec 6 2012 Engineering students take home gold in Facebook competition

Dec 6 2012 Architecture alumna wins top British honours

Dec 4 2012 Waterloo nanotechnology students develop innovative solutions for the 21st century

Dec 3 2012 Google purchases Waterloo Engineering start-up

Nov 28 2012 Embedded systems research gets real-time boost

Nov 23 2012 Engineering honours its own

Nov 6 2012 Dean addresses the future of engineering education

Nov 6 2012 MME professor's biofuel research receives a boost

Nov 5 2012 Medical conference's keynote address features Waterloo Engineering research

Nov 5 2012 Grad student wins polymer research paper award

Nov 2 2012 ECE professor's work highlighted in Laser World magazine

Nov 1 2012 Students enter the den to pitch deals to dragons

Oct 29 2012 School of Architecture country's only design school ranked in top by Azure

Oct 26 2012 First-place honours for paper authored by grad students and professor

Oct 26 2012 It's full steam ahead for engineering start-up

Oct 18 2012 Grad student takes first place in wind energy competition

Oct 12 2012 Gu named Canada Research Chair

Oct 11 2012 PhD student captures terrain-vehicle systems award

Oct 10 2012 Engineering launches new Ambassador Team

Oct 9 2012 New associate dean appointed for research and external partnerships

Oct 5 2012 Engineering awards celebrate staff and faculty

Oct 1 2012 Fall convocation honours

Sep 28 2012 Best poster award for PhD student

Sep 19 2012 Management Sciences professor wins best paper award

Sep 17 2012 Biotechnology week recognizes Canada as a global leader

Sep 10 2012 Collaborative effort captures 3M Nano paper award

Sep 10 2012 High school student's research featured in Premier's blog

Sep 10 2012 Cañizares honoured as Royal Society Fellow

Aug 14 2012 Waterloo Engineering ranks with best in world!

Aug 8 2012 Engineering-designed simulator could prevent knee injuries

Aug 2 2012 Laser research promises to lead to next-generation imaging systems

Aug 1 2012 Alumni receive scientists and engineers fellowships

Jul 30 2012 Grad student's research spotlights solar roads

Jul 26 2012 Professor emeritus honoured with civil engineering award

Jul 24 2012 Engineering students win BrainSTEM Build-a-thon

Jul 13 2012 Survey ranks Waterloo top engineering school in Canada

Jul 11 2012 Engineering research may lead to less expensive consumer lasers and LEDs

Jul 3 2012 Graduate students honoured with Vanier scholarships

Jun 29 2012 ECE professor and grad honoured with best paper award

Jun 29 2012 Grad student's study puts brakes on cycling myths

Jun 27 2012 ACCN, Canadian Chemical News: Going Viral

Jun 25 2012 Incoming student one of first winners of prestigious scholarship

Jun 18 2012 Engineering degrees awarded, faculty and students honoured

Jun 15 2012 Civil engineering students, faculty and alumni honoured with best paper awards

Jun 14 2012 Two-way wireless breakthrough unveiled by research team

Jun 14 2012 First management engineering class to convocate June 16

Jun 7 2012 Faculty members rewarded for outstanding performance

Jun 6 2012 Chemical engineering team wins safety design award

Jun 4 2012 Auto researchers receive federal funding

Jun 1 2012 Alumnus honoured with Canada's next generation award

Jun 1 2012 Management engineering student swings to golf title

May 29 2012 ECE chair to serve a second term

May 28 2012 SSHRC grant will assist research into experimental architecture construction

May 22 2012 Engineering science promoter wins NSERC award

May 14 2012 ECE professor wins IEEE technical achievement award