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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.

Ladan Tahvildari, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, here at the University of Waterloo, was elected to lead the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) for a two-year term.  The IEEE Computer Society is the world’s largest professional organizatio

A video security and data analytics software firm started by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus has secured $23 million in funding to help fuel its growth.

Solink, which is based in Ottawa and has about 80 employees, was co-founded in 2009 by electrical engineering graduate Mike Matta, now the chief executive officer.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been named the executive director of a campus-wide centre dedicated to advancing bioengineering and biotechnology research and innovation through industry collaborations and partnerships.

An incoming student at Waterloo Engineering will start his studies this fall with $70,000 in backing from a national, four-year scholarship.

Aneesh Sridhar, undergraduate student in electrical engineering, has been awarded a prestigious 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for his potential contributions to the field.

The 2019 Outstanding Performance Award recipients have been named.

“I am very pleased to announce the award recipients for 2019, and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo,” writes Vice-President, Academic & Provost Jim Rush.