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Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed computer software to detect when drivers are dangerously distracted by texting or other physical activities while they are behind the wheel.

Combining cameras and artificial intelligence, the system could be used to improve safety by alerting drivers to pay attention or trigger even more decisive action as advanced self-driving features are added to vehicles.

Weihua Zhuang of Waterloo's electrical and computer engineering department is a new fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada's (RSC) Academy of Science.

ECE PhD student, Alex Zhengfang Duanmu, has been selected as the 2017/2018 recipient of the Carl A. Pollock Postgraduate Fellowship in Engineering.   Only one fellowship is awarded annually to a student undertaking doctoral research in the Faculty of Engineering.

Congratulations Alex! 

Emma Lozhkin, a new first-year computer engineering student, has won a Schulich Leader Scholarship. Winners are known as Schulich Leaders, and they receive between $80,000 and $100,000 towards their university education.

Professor Raafat Mansour's PhD student, Tejinder Singh, has won a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship for his research project "Miniature Phase-Change Materials-based RF Switch Matrices for Wireless and Satellite Communication Systems".

When delegates gathered in San Francisco for a big annual conference in his field earlier in 2016, Raafat Mansour was eager to find out how many of his former Waterloo Engineering graduate students were among them.

A collaboration between the University of Waterloo's Living Systems Architecture Group and a haute couture design burned up the runways at Paris Fashion Week and Hollywood last month.

Waterloo has placed sixth in the world for telecommunication engineering in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017.

ECE Professor, John Long, has been awarded $100,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's John R. Evans Leaders Fund for his project " Wideband Data Links for the Zettabyte Era."

From August 20 to 24, the University will welcome more than 150 top researchers, graduate students and industry representatives to campus as the Faculties of Engineering and Science host the 18^thCanadian Semiconductor Science and Technology Conference (CSSTC).