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Teachers in Pakistan have an extensive online resource to draw on during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to hundreds of graduate students at Waterloo Engineering.

The students have spent more than three years building an online library of over 15,000 videos, assignments and exercises that follow the national curriculum by grade and subject.

With children forced to stay home because of the COVID-19 crisis, teachers are now using the library to prepare lessons they can send to their students by email.

A health care startup company founded by two Waterloo Engineering graduate students took first place and the US $25,000 top prize in a recent pitch contest in Africa.

Folake Owodunni and Maame Yaa Afriyie Poku launched Emergency Response Africa (ERA) after meeting in the master of business, entrepreneurship and technology (MBET) program at Waterloo.

The University of Waterloo announced today that it will take a combined approach to the upcoming fall term in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That means all large classes will be held online, with in-person delivery of some small classes and supports if conditions allow and with strict adherence to social distancing guidelines.

Two startup companies with ties to Waterloo Engineering were among the recipients this week of $30,000 in seed funding and mentorship for their efforts related to COVID-19.

In all, eight companies won backing through the AC Jumpstart program at the Accelerator Centre and FedDev Ontario in a 10-month program to drive innovative business growth in southern Ontario to support outbreak recovery and enable expansion following the pandemic.

A fourth-year biomedical engineering student has been recognized as the top Waterloo Engineering co-op student for his work with an organization dedicated to improving health care in East Africa.

Eric Jihoon Song worked as a software developer during spring term last year at Maisha Meds on an application to allow customers in Kenya to buy needed pharmaceuticals.

Park Reilly, a long-time Waterloo chemical engineering professor, died earlier this month, just 12 days shy of turning 100.

Reilly, who joined the University in 1967, was a respected scholar engaged in research and teaching on the application of statistics in engineering.

As she prepares to take the helm as the new dean of Waterloo Engineering in July, Mary Wells paused to consider the importance of the profession while the world continues its battle with the coronavirus pandemic.

"What would our shelter-in-place COVID-19 experiences be like in Canada without engineering technology advancements such as smart phones, Zoom, Amazon or Netflix?" she asked in an opinion piece that has appeared in several publications.

Waterloo Engineering researchers are working on personalized 3D-printed mask components for front line health-care providers as well as patients who regularly visit medical facilities for treatments such as dialysis,  chemotherapy and radiation.

To help stop the spread of COVID-19, members of the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Laboratory have produced several prototypes based on approved design guidelines from Health Canada and the National Institutes for Health.

A company that was co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alumnus Martin Basiri has achieved unicorn status after securing $100 million in new investment.

ApplyBoard, which was launched in 2015 and now has more than 400 employees in 20 countries, is an online platform that helps students apply for universities, colleges and high schools in Canada, the United and the United Kingdom.

A cross-appointed professor of chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo has been named a fellow of the Royal Society, the world’s oldest independent scientific academy.

Linda Nazar was recognized for her research on electrochemical energy storage with topics that span Li-ion batteries and ‘beyond Li-ion,’ and solid state ionics.