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Seven professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded a total of almost $1.1 million in federal funding this week through a program designed to help attract and retain top researchers.

The backing from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, is earmarked for infrastructure to ensure labs are equipped for world-class research and technology development.

The Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change's (IC3) Board of Directors has appointed Juan Moreno-Cruz from School of Environment, Enterprise and Development, Monica Emelko from Civil and Environmental Engineering, and 

During the days of Jan. 28-29, a team composed of four undergraduate students from the Faculty of Engineering, Planning, and Accounting & Financial Management Students at the University of Waterloo competed in the 8^th edition of the Annual Ryerson Real Estate Case Competition “Expand Your Empire (EYE)” where they won both the First Place Grand Prize and the Most Feasible Design for a total cash prize of $11,500.

Nominated by current CEE graduate student, Soosan Bahramian, Monica Emelko was selected to receive one of the Faculty of Engineering’s Awards of Excellence in Graduate Supervision for 2021 and is being considered for the University-wide Award to be announced next month.

A civil and environmental engineering professor at Waterloo Engineering has had his research chair renewed for another five years by the federal government.

James Craig, the Canada Research Chair in Hydrological Modelling and Analysis, will receive $500,000 over five years to continue his work. Click here to continue reading this story.

Congratulations Adrian Simone on your win from the fall 2021 Concept $5k pitch competition.

Three student teams featuring members from Waterloo Engineering took home $5,000 each from the recent Concept $5k pitch competition for fall 2021.

MicroBuild Masonry, Learnlist and Hydro House were among eight finalists competing for four prizes at the virtual event, which is staged three times a year.

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.

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