A startup backed by the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre at Waterloo Engineering competed recently in the finals of the world’s largest student competition for social enterprises.
Yesterday, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomed a delegation of representatives from Huawei Technologies Co. The delegation was on site to award five students in electrical and computer engineering Huawei Graduate Entrance Awards (valued at $5000.00 each).
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) Aca
demy 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.