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ECE lab instructor, David Bell, was awarded the honorary title "Friend of the Society" by the Waterloo Engineering Society on Monday night. The award recognizes staff and faculty members who have gone out of their way to support the mental health of student.

This award is certainly timely as the mental health of students at post-secondary institutions has become a prominent topic of discussion inside the University of Waterloo and in the general community.

Capstone Design provides Waterloo Engineering students with the unique opportunity to conceptualize and design a project related to their chosen discipline.

Joint effort with Friends of the Earth Canada to support the Great Canadian Bumble Bee Count

Dinah Shi, John Salaveria and Luisa San Martin won first prize at the 2018 Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium for their bumble bee tracking app. 

Sebastian Fischmeister, the executive director of the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Automotive Research and an associate professor of computer engineering, says while automated vehicles have been taught how to handle roads, highways, and traffic signals, they are still lacking dependability when it comes to an element of the road that’s much more unpredictable: humans.

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Richardus (Dick) van Heeswijk, ECE Professor Emeritus, has passed at the age of 92.  Professor van Heeswijk joined the department in 1961 specializing in the area of high voltage.  He will be remembered for the enthusiasm and passion he brought to the classroom.

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ECE's Denny Lee (adjunct professor), Ahmet Camlica (PhD student), Karim S. Karim (professor), and Vieworks' Hyunsuk Jang (R&D Engineer), received an Honorable Mention Poster Award at the 2018 SPIE Medical Imaging meeting for their poster titled "A novel radiation detector with proportional charge gain."

While humans may be able to drive in all kinds of weather, and at night, the sensors that will enable a central-processing unit to do the same – safely – do not yet exist. Krzysztof Czarnecki, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Waterloo, envisions the timeline being eight to 10 years before all-weather autonomous driving is a viable option.

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