Six decades after he was bitten by an environmental bug as a boy, Waterloo Engineering professor Keith Hipel added another honour to his distinguished academic career when he was awarded a 2019 Killam Prize today.
Already an Officer of the Order of Canada, Hipel collects a $100,000 prize and is the first Killam winner from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo since the program was established in 1981.
A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering earned a spot in the top five today at the provincial finals of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Haya Almutairi, a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Pavement and Transportation Technology, represented the University of Waterloo at the Ontario event after winning a campus-wide contest last month.
Three students from Waterloo Engineering are in Australia to pitch their fourth-year design project – a panelized housing system for Indigenous communities – at a major social entrepreneurship competition.
Emman Haider, Paula Przybylski and Sara Turner make up one of six teams from the University of Waterloo to qualify for regional Hult Prize events being staged around the world.
Their startup, Pulse Home, took first place at a Hult contest on campus, as well as prizes at pitch competitions including the Velocity Fund Finals.
A startup company with strong ties to Waterloo Engineering won more than $140,000 in backing this week at a prestigious pitch event in Texas.
CataLight, which aims to make safe drinking water accessible to everyone, was among seven finalists at the Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest and richest student startup contest in the world.
