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Two first-year Waterloo Engineering students are among six campus-wide winners of HeForShe IMPACT scholarships for exceptional young women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.

The $12,000 scholarships are part of the University of Waterloo’s ongoing effort to achieve gender equality in academic programs long dominated by men.

Marks north of 90 and a passion for computer programming have earned a Waterloo Engineering student a national scholarship worth up to $22,500 over three years.

Corbin McElhanney, 19, now in his second year of the software engineering program, topped candidates nominated by engineering deans across Canada to win a National Engineering Scholarship for 2017.

Two Waterloo Engineering professors are receiving medals from the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) for their outstanding research achievements.

A startup backed by the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business at Waterloo Engineering competed recently in the finals of the world’s largest student competition for social enterprises.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brought equal amounts of enthusiasm and inspiration Friday as he helped kick off Hack the North with a brief but rousing speech to a packed house at Hagey Hall.

Trudeau admitted he once “sort of dropped out” of an engineering program, but said he envied about 1,000 students from top universities in 22 countries who gathered in Waterloo for the weekend hackathon.

Endless possibilities on the open road make it extremely challenging to build and train an artificial brain that is nimble and sophisticated enough to safely deal with everything it encounters.

The new executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology has been elected as a foreign fellow of a prestigious engineering body in India.

Sushanta Mitra, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor at Waterloo, formally begins his fellowship in the Indian National Academy of Engineering in November.

Frank Gu, a Waterloo chemical engineering professor, is part of the 2017 cohort of the Royal Society of Canada's (RSC) prestigious College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed computer software to detect when drivers are dangerously distracted by texting or other physical activities while they are behind the wheel.

Combining cameras and artificial intelligence, the system could be used to improve safety by alerting drivers to pay attention or trigger even more decisive action as advanced self-driving features are added to vehicles.

More than 63 researchers at Waterloo Engineering are receiving funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to help them continue making discoveries that improve the quality of life of Canadians.

Over $8.6 million for Waterloo Engineering research was announced by NSERC today at the University of Victoria.