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Companies founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni took the top two spots in an annual list of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada.

Heading the Technology Fast 50 list, compiled by professional services firm Deloitte, is Kitchener-based Intellijoint Surgical, which develops smart tools to enhance the accuracy of orthopedic surgery, increase hospital efficiencies and improve the lives of patients.

One of the surest signs that Sam Dugan, 22, is a born entrepreneur might be this: he got the brainwave for his latest business venture, completely out of the blue, when he was on a date.

Two years later, while juggling studies as a third-year mechatronics engineering student at the University of Waterloo, he has turned that idea into a startup technology company to reduce injuries at ski resorts.

A research team led by a Waterloo Engineering professor has developed technology to track and measure environmental degradation in rivers.

Bruce MacVicar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is using synthetic stone tracers to monitor how sediment is transported in rivers during floods.

The movement of sediment has an important impact on the health of rivers and infrastructure such as bridges and pipelines.

A doctoral student at Waterloo Engineering took a top-five spot this week in a global competition organized by the world’s largest engineering design magazine.

Ala Eldin Omer earned an honorable mention in the medical category of the 2020 Create the Future contest staged by Tech Briefs.

This year has been one like no other with the coronavirus upending lives in ways unimaginable at the beginning of 2020.

In October WEAL’s feature story, seven Waterloo Engineering researchers and alumni share their pandemic initiatives and opinions on how different buildings, education, work and everyday activities look now and could look in the future.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering is one step closer to her dream of establishing a world-leading carbon nanotechnology centre after winning a prestigious award for highly promising researchers.

Chemical engineering professor Aiping Yu is one of six nation-wide recipients of 2020 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships announced today by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.

Two startup companies with strong connections to Waterloo Engineering won financial backing at a recent Velocity Fund Pitch Competition.

The big winner of a $100,000 investment through the Velocity Fund and Velocity Health Tech Fund portfolios was PiAndPower, which is developing technology to identify viral structures through their waveform characteristics.

Alan Plumtree, an inventor of a pump that provides clean drinking water to developing countries, died on November 5.

Plumtree, a Waterloo mechanical engineering professor, and Alfred Rudin, a Waterloo chemistry professor, created the hand-operated pump in the late 1970s after being approached by the International Development Research Centre.

Three projects involving researchers at Waterloo Engineering received a combined total of almost $3 million in federal funding this week.

The largest amount, just over $2.6 million, went to professors Ehsan Toyserkani and Mihaela Vlasea of the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Lab.

A research team at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded $800,000 in federal funding to develop compostable personal protective equipment (PPE) and antimicrobial coatings to help fight COVID-19.