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Electrical and computer engineering’s Colton Pankhurst, has been selected to receive the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Outstanding Student Scholarship for 2021! Recipients of the award are chosen based on their significant academic achievements, contributions to meeting community and humanitarian needs, and leadership in advancing student engagement within PES.

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering professor, Weihua Zhuang, winner of the 2021 IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Award. 

The Waterloo Undergraduate Association (WUSA) announced today, the winners of the 2019 and 2020 WUSA Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. WUSA’s Teaching Award is a yearly award that celebrates professors who have displayed quality teaching, shown commitment to student success, and looked beyond the classroom. This is also the only award presented by the University of Waterloo Senate selected entirely by undergraduate students.

Waterloo Engineering alumnus helps build online initiative to get more Canadians vaccinated

By Brian Caldwell Faculty of Engineering

Josh Kalpin started out just trying to protect his own friends and family from COVID-19.

A month later, the Waterloo Engineering alumnus has helped thousands of people across the country get shots in the arm as a core volunteer for a Twitter account that spreads the word on available vaccine appointments.

The Amit and Meena Chakma Awards for Exceptional Teaching by a Student for 2021 will be presented to four student teachers this year, including one from electrical and computer engineering. Jeff Casello, associate vice-president, graduate studies and postdoctoral affairs, and chair of the selection committee provided the report to the University's Senate on Monday this week. 

WATORACE, including ECE’s own Andy Li, Ben Zhang, and Rollen D’Souza, won 4th place in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) virtual race #3, also capturing the Rising Star Award. The IAC brings together 18 university teams from 11 countries on 4 continents in the world’s first head-to-head, high-speed autonomous race at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).

An expert panel that features a Waterloo Engineering professor released its report on the potential impact and key issues surrounding connected, autonomous, shared and electric (CASE) vehicles.

Convened in the summer of 2019 by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA), the panel stressed there are pressing decisions required to achieve potential benefits from CASE vehicles including economic growth and cleaner, safer, more accessible transportation.

The University of Waterloo has been named one of the world’s top universities for the study of several subjects, according to the latest edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) worldwide university subject rankings, released on Wednesday, March 3.

Waterloo is ranked in the top 100 for the broad faculty areas of Engineering & Technology (38th) and Natural Sciences (79th).