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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).

A spin-off company with deep roots at Waterloo Engineering has won a second Emmy Award for its work to improve the quality and reduce the costs of video.

SSIMWAVE, based in Waterloo, was founded in 2013 by Zhou Wang, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Abdul Rehman and Kai Zeng, who both earned their doctorates at Waterloo Engineering the same year.

Canadian online story-sharing company Wattpad Corp is to be acquired by Korean internet company Naver Corp. in an estimated $754-million CAD cash and stock deal later this year.  

Electrical and computer engineering alumnus, Tejinder Singh, has won the Young Engineer Prize for his paper "Reconfigurable PCM GeTe-Based Latching 6Bit Digital Switched Capacitor Bank" at the 2020 European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC). 

Electrical and computer engineering professor, Zhou Wang, has been selected to be a recipient of the Faculty of Engineering Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision.

Electrical and Computer Engineering professor, Karim S. Karim, has been selected by the Engineering Institute of Canada’s Honours, Awards and Fellowships Committee to be named 2021 EIC Fellow (FEIC) for his “excellence in engineering and services to the profession and to society”.

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