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Engineering students successful at Velocity Fund Finals
With only three minutes to pitch their company to a panel of judges, contestants at the Velocity Fund Finals (VFF) must be articulate and engaging, condensing complex ideas into understandable information.
And stakes are high.
Waterloo wins big with tiny power device
A device that harvests ambient emissions from smartphones and converts them into power to run smart contact lenses has earned a team of Waterloo Engineering students a third-place finish and a $4,500 US prize in an international design competition.
Fifty student teams vied for honours at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in Puerto Rico after being challenged to design and build power-harvesting devices capable of turning radio-frequency emissions into useful DC power.
Professors honoured as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering
Two electrical and computer engineering faculty members were named fellows of the prestigious Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 27.