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The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.

Google Research Award:  Fall 2015

ECE's Professor Werner Dietl is the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award.  Google Faculty Research Awards are one-year awards structured as unrestricted gifts to support the research of world-class permanent faculty members at top universities around the world.  For more information please visit: https://ai.googleblog.com/2016/02/google-research-awards-fall-2015.html

ECE researchers receive over $1.8 million to partner with industry

Three electrical and computer engineering researchers are receiving more than $1.8 million to partner with Canadian-based companies and government organizations on strategic research projects.

The funding for Strategic Partnership Grants announced March 1 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) brings expertise from academia and industry together to collaborate on research that will lead to innovation and commercialization.

Waterloo students capture top awards at OEC

Waterloo Engineering teams won a number of the top awards at the Ontario Engineering Competition hosted on campus from January 29 to 31. The 37th annual competition attracted about 300 competitors from 16 Ontario universities and colleges as well as judges, sponsors and guests.

Second year Waterloo mechatronics engineering students Colin Cooke, Michael Jonas, Jackson Fishe and Mitchell Catoen took first prize in the Junior Design contest.