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Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) has collaborated with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks to use the Student Design Competition (SDC) to promote emerging topics within the water industry such as resource recovery and sustainable infrastructure. The topic of the 2019-20 WEAO Student Design Competition was stormwater management at Mill Pond Park in the Town of Richmond Hill.

This year's CEE Capstone Design Symposium stepped it up a notch with a record 53 teams taking part in the event.

Teams from Civil, Environmental and Geological Engineering vied for the coveted positions of winning MTE's Best Poster Award or GM Canada's Innovation Award for Best Poster. Additionally this year, Stantec generously donated two prizes of $750 and $250 for 2nd and 4th, respectively.

Linebacker decides to play for hometown team instead of pursuing opportunities in U.S.

WATERLOO — James Hinsperger has been weighing his options for months, trying to determine the best fit for a standout football player who's every bit as good in the classroom.

In the end, the place he'd been looking for was under his nose all along.

Team BuCKeT will be competing this year at the 2020 Student Design Compitition at Ryerson University. This Competition takes place on Sunday March 29 at 10:00am. They will also be showcasing their work at the CEE Capstone on Mar 24 under the Project Title: Innovative Stormwater Management in the City of Richmond Hill, Mill Pond.

The Student Design Competition (SDC) is an annual challenge that provides an opportunity for student teams to apply their knowledge to a current real world problem.

An engineering master’s candidate has been awarded one of two scholarships awarded to civil engineering students in Ontario. Michelle Liu was honoured with a $2,500 Manuel Fine scholarship from the Deep Foundations Institute’s (DFI’s) educational trust. While working on her undergraduate degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo, Liu became interested in the environmental challenges faced in northern communities.

Calvin Veenkamp, a second-year environmental engineering student spent four months wading in and out of the inter-tidal zone of the Oosterschelde near the Yerseke, a small town where the main industry is shellfish cultivation.

Future of transit is integration, not competition

Waterloo pilot project shows residents in even poorly serviced suburbs will use subsidized ridesharing to connect with municipal transit networks

By Brian Caldwell

Faculty of Engineering

Integrating ridesharing with transit in poorly serviced suburban neighbourhoods is an effective way to get people out of their cars and boost ridership.

Our department suffered a grievous loss on Wednesday January 8, 2020. Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani, one of our doctoral students, was onboard flight PS725 that crashed in Iran resulting in the tragic deaths of all those aboard. Our thoughts are with his family, his recent bride, Hanieh, and his friends. We mourn his passing.

Managing reservoirs for water quality, not just flood control, could be part of the solution to the growth of toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes, especially Lake Erie, every summer. 

In a major study involving data from Canada and the United States, researchers at the University of Waterloo identified reservoirs on streams and rivers as sources of food for algae at the worst possible time.

Susan Tighe, a civil and environmental engineering professor, has been named a member of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) for her "exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada."

She will be formally inducted as an EIC member in April 2020 at the institute’s annual awards gala.