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A company launched by former Waterloo Engineering students has switched gears from self-driving shuttles to long-haul trucks.

Embark, which grew out of student startup Varden Labs, emerged from stealth mode last week after quietly working since the summer of 2016 to develop technology that allows trucks to go from one highway exit to another without intervention by a driver.

Angus Bruneau, the founding dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University, died February 19 at the age of 81.

Bruneau is remembered as an extraordinary visionary who made many significant contributions to Memorial during his tenure as dean from 1969 to 1974.

Leah Kristufek had an “aha moment” when Gordon Stubley briefly spoke to her first-year engineering class. Later, when she became one of his students, Kristufek discovered that inspiring moments would be an everyday occurrence in the engineering professor’s class.

Three researchers at Waterloo Engineering are receiving a total of almost $1.7 million in federal funding for strategic projects in collaboration with industry partners and other organizations.

Zhongwei Chen, Dana Kulić and Norman Zhou are among five University of Waterloo researchers in line for more than $3 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Two graduates of Waterloo Engineering are among 72 candidates still in the running to become Canada’s next astronauts.

Martha Lenio and Jesse Zroback have been shortlisted by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) after 3,772 people from across the country initially applied for two jobs last year.

Waterloo Engineering undergraduate students captured four top awards at the Ontario Engineering Competition held January 27-31 at Carleton University in Ottawa.

The huge potential of artificial intelligence got much of the attention Friday as a University of Waterloo researcher joined other academics and business leaders for a wide-ranging panel discussion on growing the Waterloo-Toronto technology corridor into a global supercluster.

Alex Wong, a professor of systems design engineering who specializes in AI, was one of seven panelists at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who explored why the idea should be aggressively pursued and how to make it a reality.

The 2016 recipients of the Waterloo Engineering Faculty and Staff awards for outstanding contributions to education and research were celebrated by Engineering Dean Pearl Sullivan and colleagues at a dinner held January 25.    

The Outstanding Staff Performance Award administrative categorywinner is Emily Stafford of the School of Architecture. She was recognized for her unwavering commitment to its graduate program and for her dedication to the graduate student experience.

A company founded by two former Waterloo Engineering students has joined forces with a smaller startup in Israel to add video to its hugely popular chat platform.

Kik Interactive, which began as a mobile chat app at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity incubator in 2009, announced the addition of the 35-employee company, Rounds, in a press release today.

A startup company co-founded by a master’s student at Waterloo Engineering has been selected to join a high-profile San Francisco accelerator that focuses on the water sector.

EMAGIN Clean Technologies Inc., which is based at the University of Waterloo’s Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, earned one of 12 spots at Imagine H2O in a competition featuring more than 180 applicants from 20 countries.