The University of Waterloo broke ground today on an innovative engineering building that will feature facilities designed to expand student-driven innovation and advanced research labs to develop emerging technologies that will help to boost Canada’s global competitiveness.
Nafeesa Mahboob, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral canadiate, received the Basil Papadias Student Paper Award for the best student paper at the biannual IEEE PowerTech 2015 Conference held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The paper was co-authored by her two doctoral supervisors Claudio Canizares and Catherine Rosenberg, both electrical and computer engineering professors. The award was presented with a plaque and 1000 euros.
Two women entering Waterloo Engineering programs are among six campus-wide to receive the first University of Waterloo HeForShe IMPACT Scholarships.
For the second time in two years, two Waterloo Engineering startups have been chosen out of hundreds of others as contenders for the 2015 James Dyson Award.
Grasp and Voltera V-One, both founded as Capstone Design projects, are among five Canadian finalists for the award.
Two management engineering teams won the top two awards in the undergraduate category at this year's Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) 2015 Student Paper Competition held in Montreal. A third team placed in the competition's top five. All the students' papers were also their 2015 Waterloo Engineering Capstone Design projects.
A Waterloo Engineering Team won the 2015 Electric Mobility Canada Student Competition, an event co-sponsored by AddÉnergie and Electric Mobility Canada. The award came with a $4,500 charging station for Waterloo.
At the competition held in Halifax teams were presented with an electric vehicle (EV) power train configuration and battery charging issue to resolve. Each team prepared a presentation of its issue, a solution and a plan for adoption. The Waterloo team proposed a Metal/Air – LiIon Hybrid vehicle as the technical solution:
Making shared accommodation spaces more private and secure is the goal behind winning Capstone Design project, Boogaloo Bunks. The team, comprised of students from mechanical, mechatronics and systems design engineering, designed a solution that transforms hostel beds into private and secure personal pods.
Two graduate students will represent the Faculty of Engineering on April 2, 2015 at the University of Waterloo's 3rd annual Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Competitors have 1 static slide and 3 minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research to a non-specialist audience.
Kitematic, a software startup dedicated to making the Docker development environment accessible to a wider range of developers, has been acquired by Docker Inc. Founded by engineering alumni Jeffrey Morgan and Sean Li (both BASc 2013, Software), and electrical engineering student Michael Chiang, Kitematic sold for an undisclosed amount last week.
Portal is launching in the Faculty of Engineering this month. All students in Engineering programs, both undergraduate and graduate, will receive an email invitation to access the student portal starting this month.