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Congratulations Zaid Al-Sabbag, a 2025 Civil and Environmental Engineering student from the Faculty of Engineering (co-supervised by Chul Min Yeum and Sriram Narasimhan), won first place in Waterloo.AI GRADflix Competition with his research on augmented reality and it’s uses in infrastructure maintenance. Watch the video to see the use of Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 and image processing in “interactive segmentation”. Click here to continue reading this article.

Congratulations to Doug Hirst and Liping Fu from Civil and Environmental Engineering on your outstanding accomplishments.

The winners of the Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award were recently announced along with the honorees of other major Faculty awards.

We would like to Congratulate the following graduate students on their exceptional teaching evaluations from the Spring 2021 semester.

Spring 2021 CEE TA Award recipients:

• Fook Yee Yang - MASc
• Maxime Cleroux - MASc
• Rui Wang - PhD
• Tina Lin - MASc
• Tyler Hull - PhD

Congratulations

The chair of civil and environmental engineering has been honoured for his significant contributions to the construction industry. Carl Haas received the Construction Industry Institue's (CII) 2021 James B. Porter, Jr.

Our CEAGES (Civil, Environmental, Architectural and Geological Engineering Society) student chapter also serves as our CSCE (Canadian Society for Civil Engineering) student chapter and produces an annual report. The report was found to be the second best nationally. Congratulations CEAGES Team!

Congratulations to:

Thiruni Thirimanne, A-Society President                                               Jessica Elias, B-Society President

Who would have imagined that structural engineering videos made at UW would reach more than 5 million people around the world? But that is exactly what happened when Prof. Brodland (now retired) and his team made a series of videos that featured classroom models they had built.

Alumni feel new role will make a difference to Waterloo Engineering 2SLGBTQ+ community

By Carol Truemner

Faculty of Engineering

Michelle Liu and Allie Kennington were thrilled when Waterloo Engineering introduced a senior position intended to ensure all students feel respected and empowered to pursue their aspirations. 

They both feel the new role of associate dean of outreach, equity and diversity will make a difference to the Faculty’s 2SLGBTQ+ and other marginalized communities. 

Spring 2021 saw another online edition of the MTE CivE Design Pitch Competition and the CIVE400 capstone teams put on a good show. A very impressive performance by all.  Congratulations! The winning teams are:

1st Place: Team 10: EMBODY Consulting 

The class of CIVE230: Engineering and Sustainable Development have been at it again, learning remotely in Spring 2021. This is the second COVID-19 edition of the course!

Learning about sustainability requires systems-thinking and a curiosity to explore. When learning opportunities are created for students so that they may go beyond the course content by learning from the world around us and from each other, they get so much more out of the course.

The most harmful air pollutant worldwide is fine particular matter. In Canada, the biggest natural source of this pollutant is wildfires. Winds can spread wildfire smoke over a wide area, affecting areas hundreds of kilometres downwind.