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"I am very pleased to announce the award recipients for 2018, and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo," writes Vice-President, Academic & Provost Jim Rush.

Effective May 1, 2005, in accordance with the 2003 Faculty Salary Settlement, the University of Waterloo established an Outstanding Performance Fund to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.

The 2018 winners from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are:

The Spring 2019 issue of Waterloo Magazine is now available online. Urbanization is the focus of the latest issue of the magazine. Feature story topics include urban mobility, intelligent intersections, and neighbourhood revitalization.

Wasted food can be affordably turned into a clean substitute for fossil fuels.

New technology developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo engineers natural fermentation to produce a biodegradable chemical that can be refined as a source of energy. 

Congratulations to the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) UW Chapter, placed 2^nd out of 26 schools for the 2019 Presidents Best Chapter Award. This award will be given out at the Student Chapter Leaders Workshop during the CSCE annual conference in Laval, Montreal on Friday, June 14, 2019. Once again Congratulations to Grant Mitchell, Sehrish Ahmad and Team Waterloo!!!

The 3MT challenges competitors to use 1 static slide and 3 minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their graduate research to a non-specialist audience.Haya Almutairi, a PhD Candidate in Civil & Environmental Engineering, was chosen to represent Waterloo at the Ontario Provincial 3MT finals. Haya advanced from the provincial finals to become one of twelve Canadian National 3MT finalists.To read more and to vote click here

Michelle Liu carefully plans each hour of each day three weeks in advance to figure out where she needs to be and when.

Between volunteering up to 40 hours a month in several different roles on and off campus and keeping on top of her graduate studies, she constantly checks her changing calendar.

“I call it 80 productive hours a week, divided between volunteering and my studies,” Liu says with a laugh.

Professor Emeritus G. Wayne Brodland and his students created a video last summer (2018) that has gone viral and has been viewed a half a million times. 

For further information click here.

Bruce MacVicar an Associate Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department speaks with CTV News about the recent flooding in Bracebridge and New Brunswick. See the full interview here.