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This week the CivE 204 class were put to the test designing, constructing, and testing their own wooden stir-stick bridges. The requirements of this project were simple: using only stir-sticks, thread and glue, the groups had to create a structure that weighed at least 200 grams and spanned between 400-750 millimetres. 

The score for winning was based on the following criteria:

As residents try to resume their lives more than a month after a ferocious wildfire forced the evacuation of Fort McMurray, crucial questions about its impact on their water supply still have no clear answers.

It’s why Monica Emelko, a University of Waterloo expert in water quality and water treatment, left for the devastated Alberta city last week after spending countless hours on the phone with government officials since the crisis escalated in early May.

Every term a professor, lecturer, or laboratory instructor who has done an exceptional job of going above and beyond for their classes is selected to receive the Waterloo Engineering Society’s Teaching Excellence Award.

Three professors from Waterloo Engineering - Susan L.

EMAGIN is Canada’s first artificial intelligence company for the water sector, and co-founded and jointly run by CEE and other UW students.

Muhammad Irfan, a PhD student with CEE, has claimed first prize at the National Graduate Student Speaker Competition hosted by the Canadian Geotechnical Society (CGS).

Established in 1988, the Graduate Student Presentation Award encourages, recognizes and rewards excellence in presentations of papers by geotechnical graduate students from universities across Canada every year. The purpose of the award is to encourage graduate students to make formal technical presentations to peer and professional audiences.

We are pleased to announce that at the CSCE (Canadian Society of Civil Engineers) Annual Congress in London, ON last week, the Capstone project team representing the University of Waterloo’s Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) Department came in 3^rd place nationally!

Earlier in the year, our undergraduate student chapter produced an annual report for the CSCE (Canadian Society of Civil Engineers) and amidst fierce competition, their report took home one of the coveted awards!

The CSCE Student Affairs Committee evaluated final annual reports (2015-2016) from 24 schools and awarded Waterloo the Most Improved Student Chapter.

The competition was very keen with many outstanding reports, but the committee was extremely impressed with the professionalism and the quality of our report.

Congratulations to the 2016 CEE 3MT competition winners!

First Prize: Chris Rausch, MASc Candidate

Supervisor(s): Jeffrey West and Carl Haas

Presentation title: Strategic Management of Dimensional Variability in Modular Construction

This year's Capstone Design posters stepped it up a notch with projects ranging from technology that reduces agricultural water waste, through intelligent irrigation systems, to a roller coaster that would thrill even the toughest adrenalin junkie.