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Dear Electrical and Computer Engineering Class of 2020,

The Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology (WIN) has partnered with Japanese accelerator Landing Pad Tokyo (LPT) to bring University of Waterloo developed technologies to the Japanese market.

“The goal of this partnership is to help Waterloo companies enter the Asian market, and to accelerate the research and development of new technologies through partnerships with Japanese businesses,” said Sushanta Mitra, Executive Director of WIN.

It is with great sadness the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering announces the sudden passing of Jason Arbour, a second year computer engineering student. His family states "Jason was a loving, thoughtful soul and his life ended far too soon.  We are grateful for the friendships he made at UW and the communities he was a part of.”   

Today, the University offers its sincere congratulations to its members who are being honoured with the President’s Excellence in Teaching and Research awards.

Typically, the celebration takes the form of an in-person reception event, but this year the University is celebrating the achievements of the award winners virtually with the entire campus. To see the full list of recipients, visit the Excellence in Teaching and Research website.

A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering is the inaugural winner of a new scholarship for women in the field of quantum information science.

Cindy Yang, who is doing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, has had a passion for acoustic and superconducting waves since learning how to make photonic devices.

Digital X-ray technology developed by a Waterloo Engineering spinoff company has won approval from Health Canada.

A medical device licence issued for Reveal 35C, a dual-energy X-ray detector created by KA Imaging, follows clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States earlier this month.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed a palm-sized device to monitor glucose levels in people with diabetes using radar and artificial intelligence (AI), not painful finger pricks to draw blood.

The new technology is safe, fast and accurate, and works by sending radio waves through the skin and into blood vessels when users place the tip of their finger on a touchpad.

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.

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.