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A company headed by a graduate of Waterloo Engineering will also have its moment in the spotlight when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet Sunday in Super Bowl LVI.

Ross Video is providing the state-of-the-art technology to power a gigantic, 360-degree screen hovering over the playing field in the new, $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded $100,000 for research on predictive tools to improve outcomes in invasive spine surgery.

Stewart McLachlin, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, received the one-year grant through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), a federal funding agency.

Two students from Waterloo Engineering took home the top prize from a recent international real estate case competition hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto.

Nathan Lee, a third-year civil engineering student, and Samantha Kerry, a third-year architectural engineering student, teamed up two students from other University of Waterloo faculties at the Expand Your Empire conference.

Waterloo students had a strong showing at this year’s remote Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) with 6 teams moving on to next month's national contest.

Hosted by the University of Toronto, undergraduate engineering students won nine of the top prizes awarded. The first and second-place teams in their categories will compete in the Canadian Engineering Competition to be held online by the University of New Brunswick March 11 to 13.   

Perseverance is paying off for two Waterloo Engineering graduates who co-founded an ambitious medical hardware company.

Five years after launching Vena Medical to commercialize their fourth-year design project, Michael Phillips and Phil Cooper announced their first government approval this week for a device to remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients.

The University of Waterloo has partnered with the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) to help engineers remain agile as the world of work changes.

WatSPEED, the Faculty of Engineering and OSPE have launched an innovative new series of professional development courses designed to help engineering professionals compete in an increasingly digital landscape.

The courses will enable engineers, technicians, technologists, leaders and managers to navigate industry disruption and adapt to rapid changes in technology.

A startup company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus to help people manage their cryptocurrency investments has joined the ranks of unicorns.

CoinTracker, an online service based in San Francisco, recently announced a US $100-million funding round that gives it a valuation of US $1.3 billion.

Company co-founder and chief executive officer Jon Lerner, who was born in Russia and grew up in Ottawa, graduated from Waterloo in 2010 with a degree in computer engineering.

New technology could help reduce malnutrition and improve overall health in long-term care (LTC) homes by automatically recording and tracking how much food residents consume.

The smart system, developed by engineering and health researchers at the University of Waterloo, the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and the University Health Network (UHN), uses artificial intelligence (AI) software to analyze photos of plates of food after residents have eaten.

Dear Colleagues,

It is with the deepest sadness that I share the news of the untimely passing of Apostolos Marinakos, a University of Waterloo third-year mechanical engineering student, on Tuesday, January 25.

One of the largest financial institutions in Canada is contributing more than $1 million to help increase diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields at the University of Waterloo.

Scotiabank is using the money to create a variety of scholarships to support students from underrepresented groups as they pursue STEM studies.

Also included in the Scotiabank Future of Talent and Innovation Initiative is support for engineering outreach to racialized students in Grades 1 to 12, as well as the existing Women in Engineering program.