Engineering researchers have some simple advice for people learning to ride hoverboards: it’s all in the ankles.
An experiment using sophisticated cameras and sensors attached to first-time riders revealed that ankle movements, not knee or hip movements, are the key to catching on to the increasingly popular devices.
A former student at Waterloo Engineering is a co-founder of a Toronto-based startup company that recently secured $10 million in funding to help fuel its growth.
Kevin Kim, who dropped out of the civil engineering program in his fourth year in 2011, launched Stadium Live Studios in 2020 to develop a digital playground for young sports fans.
Students from the Waterloo School of Architecture swept the top three spots in a national contest to design a pedestrian bridge.
Owen Melisek and Silas Clusiau finished first in the Architectural Student Design Competition staged by the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. They were sponsored by Professor Terri Meyer Boake.
An innovative new program that provides financial support, mentorship and networking to Black and Indigenous PhD students has been chosen to represent the University of Waterloo in a federal competition for bold and potentially game-changing projects to address persistent systemic barriers in the research ecosystem and academia.
The Indigenous Black Engineering Technology (IBET) PhD Project, led by chemical engineering professor Tizazu Mekonnen, is aimed at rapidly increasing the presence of Indigenous and Black academics in engineering and computer science across Canada. Launched only 18 months ago, the program has expanded to 15 universities across Canada with 28 Momentum Fellows in the 2021 and 2022 cohorts.
Rithu Muthalathu gained a lot more than insight into the subject at hand when he recently took part in his first academic research study exploring ammonia as a green energy carrier.
A fourth-year chemical engineering student, Muthalathu also learned that research is a journey with a way of taking you in unexpected directions.
"It was a unique experience as an undergraduate student," he said.
Waterloo Engineering alumnus Sabrina Li (BASc ’15, environmental engineering) has been named as one of Forbes’ 2022 picks for Europe’s Top 30 under 30 list in science and health care.
She is among 300 honourees cited for their accomplishments in 10 categories.
Waterloo Engineering placed three subject areas in the top 20 and a total of six in the top 50 in world rankings released this week by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
University of Waterloo students may soon be able to order pizza or a burger from a nearby plaza and have it brought to campus by Canada’s first all-weather autonomous delivery robot.
LoopX, a Waterloo Engineering startup company that is developing the technology to do just that, received a $30,000 funding boost recently when it took top prize in the 5G Transportation Challenge sponsored by Rogers and the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network.
A professor at Waterloo Engineering helped develop a map showing which regions and population centres of Western Canada are likely to experience earthquakes induced by underground energy extraction.
The Department of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Koncay Huseyin on June 2, 2022, at the age of 85.