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A unique analysis by engineering and mathematics researchers at the University of Waterloo showed that speeding is the riskiest kind of aggressive driving.

Data for the study – the first of its kind - was provided by insurance companies with clients in Ontario and Texas whose vehicles had been fitted with on-board devices. It covered 28 million trips.

Waterloo Engineering alumnus Michael Litt was recently selected as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 business leaders for 2019, an honour based on contributions to both their industries and their communities.

Litt, who earned a systems design engineering degree in 2011, is a co-founder and CEO of Vidyard, a Kitchener-based company with an analytics platform that helps businesses develop effective video strategies.

Humanoid robots in an Engineering 7 maze and a self-driving car being developed by a University of Waterloo student design team were featured last night in an episode of CTV’s The Amazing Race Canada.

Filmed on campus in early May, the events showcased the state-of-the-art RoboHub and work by WATonomous, and were broadcast in an episode that also included several other locations in Kitchener and Waterloo.

During a visit to Waterloo Region on Friday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford came to campus to see Professor Michael Worswick’s Waterloo Forming and Crash Lab and experience first-hand one of the largest academic laboratories for such research.

Worswick is co-Principal Investigator for the $35-million Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (OAMC), a joint initiative involving the University of Waterloo, McMaster University and Western University.