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Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Student inventions win national honours

One of three top spots for the national James Dyson Award goes to an entry by nanotechnology engineering students.

Projects by students from Waterloo Engineering took both runner-up prizes in the Canadian leg of the James Dyson Award competition for student inventors.

SmartPatrol, which uses computer vision to prevent injuries at ski resorts, and Scope, which is developing a better zoom function for smartphone cameras, now move on to the international portion of the 27-country competition.

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Schulich Leader Award winners named

A group of high school students headed to the University of Waterloo this September have been named 2020 Schulich Leaders. 

The prestigious award comes with an $80,000 or $100,000 scholarship made possible by businessman and philanthropist Seymour Schulich.  

This year, the Schulich Leader Scholarship program supports 100 young Canadians pursing a STEM degree. 

Four local companies with roots at Waterloo Engineering will receive a total of more than $10 million in federal funding to help grow and expand around the world.

Intellijoint Surgical, SSIMWAVE, KA Imaging and TeTechS are among eight Waterloo Region companies in all named for backing in an announcement by Mélanie Joly, the minister of economic development.

The money comes as no-interest, repayable loans from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, or FedDev Ontario.

A nanotechnology engineering doctoral student is a recipient of this year’s prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Asif Abdullah Khan was awarded the scholarship for his research that focuses on developing next-generation sustainable power sources for designing self-powered micro/nanosystems for aerospace applications.

First-year engineering students collaborate remotely on an IDEAs Clinic spaceship challenge

Md. Abdul Chowdhury and his teammates never did get their virtual spaceship safely to Kepler-438b, an exoplanet situated hundreds of light years from Earth.

But all the hours they spent trying certainly weren’t wasted.

A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering has won the campus-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition at the University of Waterloo for the third straight year.

Jasdeep Multani of the School of Architecture was joined on the podium by third-place finisher Robert Bennett, a master’s student in electrical and computer engineering, to give the Faculty two of the top three spots.