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Alumnus sparks creativity as a firmware architect at the LEGO Group in Denmark

Ralph Hempel’s beloved hobby as a child has turned into his dream career as an adult.

The 1986 electrical engineering alumnus who spent countless hours playing with LEGO growing up is now employed by the popular building toy company’s home office in Billund, Denmark. 

Engineering's Elder in Residence offers courses and counselling grounded in his Indigenous background

Passionate about sharing his Indigenous heritage, an adjunct architecture professor named a new course after the ceremony his ancestors have used for thousands of years to welcome visitors to their homeland — At the Woods Edge.

Hive is an interlocking masonry wall composed of 175 unique 3D-printed clay bricks. Combining traditional ceramics, smart geometry and robotic precision, the design embraces the natural material properties of clay, allowing its malleability and fluidity to shape the clay units’ form and surface quality.

Associate Professor Jane Mah Hutton to speak at two upcoming international keynote talks.

Cradle (2022) is a new short film created by the Canadian artist Philip Beesley from the University of Waterloo, London-based Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, and Amsterdam-based Salvador Breed. See the film on @philip.beesley Instagram IGTV and YouTube, premiering June 13, 2022 at noon. 

Congratulations to Elisia Neves, a Waterloo Architecture Alum, who won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the 2022 Cambridge Chamber of Commerce's Business Excellence Awards for Fabrik Architects Inc. after establishing her business in 2017. 

Architecture alumnus honoured for innovative tech to reduce fashion's environmental impact.

A graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture has been recognized by a national organization for young entrepreneurs for her work to make fashion greener.

LeiLei Zhao is one of two winners of the American Galvanizers Association's (AGA) 2022 Galvanize the Future Scholarship. He participated in an essay contest with applicants throughout North America enrolled in architecture, construction or engineering programs. Two scholarships are awarded annually ($2,500 each) for the top essays submitted. He is currently working on his Architectural Studies Degree with a major in Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Student designers and builders of the tiny house: Jennifer Chen, Nini Chen, Johannah-Gwyneth Del Rosario, Marc Eugenio, Anita Hu, Ernest Lee, Lauren Mok, Max Perry, Kenneth Siu, Niara Alexandra van Gaalen, LeiLei Zhao, Catherine Zheng. Studio faculty: Adrian Blackwell, John McMinn.

The OAA announced the winners of its 2022 Design Excellence Awards, as well as the recipients of this year’s OAA Service Awards.