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Waterloo Engineering has ranked an impressive second in Canada in the 2011 Taiwan Ranking’s engineering field. In the ranking’s engineering subjects Waterloo’s chemical engineering was ranked first and electrical engineering was ranked second. The rankings are conducted by researchers at National Taiwan University and sponsored by the Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT).

Do you know an engineering faculty member, graduate, student or someone else under the age of 40 who is making a difference? If you do, consider nominating that person for Waterloo Region Record’s 40 Under 40 awards. Submissions for possible canadidates will be accepted until December 2. Selections will be made by a panel of judges from the Record and the community. 

The University of Toronto is offering an Advanced Skills in Journalism for Engineers program for engineering alumni and engineering graduate students who wish to work in media. The program will provide up to 10 engineers with eight months of mentored experience as freelance business correspondents to major news organizations in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. including: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Postmedia Network , the Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Financial Times, the BBC and The Washington Post.

About 2,900 potential Waterloo Engineering students, family members and others checked out our Waterloo and Cambridge campuses on November 5 as part of the campus-wide annual fall open house. The day offered tours of engineering buildings and the School of Architecture, residence viewing, demonstrations, including a dissection of a car engine, and even a “Parents’ Lounge” to answer questions.

Engineering graduate students and alumni are invited to attend Engineering Connections on November 8, 2011 from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at the Best Western hotel in Orangeville. The free networking event for engineers of all disciplines, experience levels, and graduate students exploring employment opportunities is sponored by the Workforce Planning Board of Waterloo Wellington Dufferin.

Waterloo Engineering is tied for the 48th spot in the Times Higher Education Top 50 Engineering and Technology Universities for 2011-2012 released this month. THE’s rankings of the top 200 universities in the world use 13 performance indicators designed to capture the full range of university activities, from teaching to research to knowledge transfer. The top 50 institutions by subject are based on criteria and weightings that are selected after extensive consultation.

To help receive financial assistance for a new innovative medical device the associate director of Waterloo’s Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology is requesting that people check out his online video proposal and give it a thumbs up. Karim Karim, also an electrical and computer engineering professor, says that approval of his research team’s inexpensive ($1000) tuberculosis X-Ray imager intended to save lives in developing countries will play a large part in whether the proposal receives the funding from Grand Challenges Canada, funded by the Bill Gates Foundation.

Engineering researchers will benefit from the use of the new, state-of-the-art CANMET Materials Technology Laboratory that is part of the collaborative research agreement the University of Waterloo signed with the federal government October 12 in Engineering 5.