News

A project inspired by a co-op work term on a construction crew has put a Waterloo Engineering student in the running for an international invention prize.

Adrian Simone, who is in his fourth year of the civil engineering program, was announced today as a national runner-up in the 2022 James Dyson Award competition for a proposal to make bricks using bacteria. 

Carl Haas, a Waterloo Engineering professor and department chair for civil and environmental engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

A former student at Waterloo Engineering is a co-founder of a Toronto-based startup company that recently secured $10 million in funding to help fuel its growth.

Kevin Kim, who dropped out of the civil engineering program in his fourth year in 2011, launched Stadium Live Studios in 2020 to develop a digital playground for young sports fans. To continue reading this article please click here.

This term, Spring 2022, the Civil Engineering Capstone Design Project was back in-person (though we’ve kept the progress meetings online!) and created this collage of teams. It’s been a very busy and productive term for all the CIVE400 capstone teams that produced excellent conceptual and preliminary designs in their Phase 1.

Three recent graduates from the Water Science, Technology & Policy group (WaterSTP) in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo have received three of four top international awards for best Master’s thesis research, marking the first time so many awards have been secured from the two associations by one group in a competition year. To continue reading this story please click here.

Celebrate Waterloo Engineering!

Come show your spirit and get your purple on! 

The tradition continued on Friday, July 8, 2022 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm we celebrated Engineering Day with our incredible community of students, alumni, professors and staff. 

A project led by a Waterloo Engineering lecturer has received almost $55,000 in backing from a provincial program created to grow and advance virtual learning in post-secondary education.

Alumni scholarship supports diversity and inclusion

THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2022

Looking back on their undergraduate years, Michelle Liu (she/her) and Allie Kennington (they/them) wish there had been more on-campus support and mentorship for them as 2SLGBTQ+ engineering students.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been granted almost $91,000 for a research project under a federal program to improve rail safety.

The proposal by Liping Fu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, was one of 147 projects across the country announced today by Transport Canada.

Professor Bruce Hellinga was featured on Thursday May 19, 2022 in a radio interview with Newstalk 1010 and a CBC article on fuel demands and transportation changes.