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Dr. Mary Wells, the dean of Waterloo Engineering, argued in a recent opinion piece published by The Hill Times that Canada should make its mark in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution by producing leaders who understand the importance of responsibly embedding trust in the technology.

“For the past decade, Canada has rightly celebrated its role in inventing modern artificial intelligence (AI),” she wrote. “Canadian researchers helped lay the scientific foundations for today’s AI revolution, and those investments continue to pay dividends.

Simantic, a hardware simulation startup founded by two Waterloo Engineering students, has raised roughly $600,000 USD and won spots in both the Velocity incubator and Y Combinator's Fall 2026 cohort.

Seungmin Hong (BASc '26) launched Simantic in 2025 with Ahnaf Shahriar (BASc in progress) joining as a co-founder in 2026. The company builds simulation technology that lets engineers and AI systems build, test and validate firmware in virtual environments before physical hardware exists.

Five companies co-founded by alumni of Waterloo Engineering have made a list of the top education technology companies in the world.

The list was published by Time Magazine based on a statistical analysis of thousands of companies in terms of their financial performance and industry impact.

A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering is helping property owners, municipalities, engineers, planners, insurers and developers better understand climate-related risks so they can make informed decisions early in the development process.

Hasti Shwan, a doctoral candidate in civil engineering as well as a fellow in the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program, created a platform called GeoSafe after identifying a need to pull together and simplify available information.

A researcher at Waterloo Engineering is working to better understand how fires can start and spread when lithium-ion batteries fail, a critical problem as the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution drives the proliferation of power-hungry data centres.

Dr. Vinny Gupta, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, works in conjunction with fellow engineering professors including Dr. Michael Pope and Dr. Kyle Daun at the Fire Research Facility on campus.

Two professors from Waterloo Engineering’s Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business have received federal funding to support new research into global business and innovation.  

Dr. Victor Cui and Dr. Felix Arndt are among 37 University of Waterloo researchers who received more than $8 million in new funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), announced in a media release earlier this week. 

An alumnus of Waterloo Engineering cites the wealth and variety of expertise on campus as a significant factor in the success of a robotics company he co-founded with three classmates from the mechatronics engineering program.

Ryan Gariepy (BASc ’09, MASc ’12) launched Clearpath Robotics in Kitchener in 2009 with fellow graduates Patrick Martinson, Matt Rendall and Bryan Webb. It was acquired by Rockwell Automation, a U.S.-based industrial automation company, in 2023.

The University of Waterloo’s Pearl Sullivan Engineering IDEAs Clinic ran the inaugural Brookfield Renewable Innovation Challenge, tasking students with designing solutions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and strengthen climate resilience across campus.

The three-day event marked the launch of a new partnership between the Faculty of Engineering and Brookfield Renewable, a core business of Brookfield Corporation and one of the world's largest owners, operators and developers of renewable power.

Researchers from the faculties of engineering and mathematics at the University of Waterloo are working on a joint project that could lead to a new cancer treatment involving the use of engineered bacteria to essentially eat tumours from the inside out.

Dr. Marc Aucoin, a professor of chemical engineering, and Dr. Brian Ingalls, a professor of applied mathematics, outlined their research and the history behind their promising approach in an article recently published by the website The Conversation Canada.

A University of Waterloo adjunct professor and staff member has been recognized on a national list celebrating some of the country's top rising engineering talent.

Dr. Brandon DeHart, manager of Waterloo's RoboHub, was among a group of rising Canadian engineers profiled in Design Engineering magazine's June 2026 feature, "Geared for Success," which highlights engineering professionals up to age 40 who are making their mark in the field.