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Sunday, January 31, 2016

ECE grad student and professor receive best paper award

Talal Alharbi, an electrical engineering doctoral candidate, and his supervisor Kankar Bhattacharya, an electrical and computer engineering professor, were honoured with a Best Conference Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference held last October in London, ON. The paper they co-authored is entitled Optimal Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids.

Friday, January 29, 2016

Dropping in on California alumni: Two nights of networking and knowledge sharing

What Waterloo Engineering Outreach is doing to attract more women into the profession is one of the issues that will be discussed in California next week as Waterloo Engineering takes to the road for their annual California Alumni events. Two events will host up to 300 alumni allowing them to catch up on what is happening at Waterloo Engineering and listen to outstanding professors share their engineering insights and expertise.

Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Alumni founders at Vidyard announce $35M raised

Vidyard, a video platform company founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni has announced the successful raise of $35 million (USD) in their Series C financing round today.

Led by Battery Ventures out of Boston, the Series C also includes backing from existing investors, like Bessemer Ventures who led Kitchener-based Vidyard’s Series B just last year. Adding more fuel to power the business, the company is now valued at about $350 million (USD) according to a Wall Street Journal report.

Thursday, January 21, 2016

McPhee honoured as new EIC fellow

John McPhee, a systems design engineer professor, will be inducted as a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) on March 12 in Ottawa at the institute’s annual awards banquet.

Thursday, January 21, 2016