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Two undergraduates at Waterloo Engineering recently completed co-op placements through an initiative led by Communitech to pair students with local businesses to work on artificial intelligence (AI) projects.

Bilal Alberzreh, who is studying systems design engineering, gained invaluable experience working for a construction company that files utility locates.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have teamed up with doctors in the local community to help identify and reduce critical treatment delays in stroke cases.

The partnership involved experts in the Department of Management Science and members of the research and stroke teams at Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN), and an analysis of 218 acute stroke cases over a three-year period.

A testing tool built by researchers at Waterloo Engineering shows that leading open-weight artificial intelligence (AI) models are alarmingly vulnerable to malicious tampering.

The researchers collaborated with experts at FAR.AI, a non-profit AI security research group, to rigorously test 21 of the most popular open-weight large language models (LLMs) and found their built-in safeguards could all be defeated.

A study of wildfires by researchers at Waterloo Engineering reveals a risk of costly over-reaction by emergency responders who monitor social media posts.

While posts by the public have been shown to help firefighters spring into action faster, a detailed analysis of wildfires in California suggests social media signals can be a double-edged sword.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed a much faster, more efficient training method to help put powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the hands of many more people.

Their approach to large language models (LLMs) – advanced AI systems designed to understand and generate human language by learning patterns in how words and ideas are connected – reduces both the cost and environmental impact of building them.

Young entrepreneurs who studied at Waterloo Engineering and launched companies to fill a void in the marketplace are part of Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2021.

A management engineering Capstone Design project that explored the need for pay-and-display parking machines in Toronto took top prize in an international competition.    

Jordan Grant is Waterloo Engineering's co-op student of the year.

The University of Waterloo honoured the management engineering student and five others at a ceremony on March 15 with the University’s top award for students in a co-op program for their contributions to co-operative education and their community.

The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.

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.