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Six decades after travelling halfway around the world to take a chance on a new university in Canada, a proud alumnus is helping it grow in a way he would never have imagined possible.

Nityan and Varma was the proverbial immigrant with eight dollars in his pocket when he left his native India in the early 1960s to do a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo.

ECE alumna, Pirathayini Srikantha, has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal in the Young Engineer category by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE).  Now an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at York University, Srikantha received both her BASc degree in systems design engineering (2009) and MASc degree in electrical and computer engineering (2013) from the University of Waterloo.

Waterloo Engineering improved its standing in three subjects in world rankings released today by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) for 2022.

The faculty was rated 33^rd globally in electrical engineering, 49^th in mechanical engineering and 75^th in chemical engineering, all improvements on the 2021 results released by the influential United Kingdom company.

Congratulations to electrical and computer engineering's Ali Noormohammadi and Abhinav Dahiya (PhD students), Alexander Mois Aroyo (postdoctoral fellow), and professors Kerstin Dautenhahn and Stephen Smith - recipients of a Best Poster Award at HAI 2021 conference for their work "the Effect of Robot Decision Making on Human Perception o

Claudio Canizares, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected to receive the prestigious Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.

A company headed by a graduate of Waterloo Engineering will also have its moment in the spotlight when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet Sunday in Super Bowl LVI.

Ross Video is providing the state-of-the-art technology to power a gigantic, 360-degree screen hovering over the playing field in the new, $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.