As construction of Engineering 7 continued right next door, cabinet minister Bardish Chagger announced $32.6 million in federal funding Thursday for the seven-storey building that will be the future home of both expanding student enrolment and ground-breaking research.
Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini has been immersed for more than 15 years in the complex technical details of his work on intelligent antenna systems for Internet connectivity.
A fourth-year Waterloo Engineering student took the bus home from Toronto today with the $10,000 top prize in a contest for undergraduate biomedical research.
Nidhi Juthani was recognized by the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) for her work on a cheaper, easier way to make cell sheets for use in areas including the repair of damaged heart tissue, corneal transplants and rebuilding cartilage.
A local startup company with ties to Waterloo Engineering went public this week with a new home security system that uses wireless signals, not traditional cameras and motion detectors.
Cognitive Systems Corp., which was founded in 2014 and has offices at the headquarters of Quantum Valley Investments in Waterloo, unveiled the system, called Aura, at the huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Kankar Bhattacharya of electrical and computer engineering has been named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to electricity markets 
and reactive power ancillary services. Bhattacharya, a member of Waterloo Engineering's Power and Energy Systems Group, became a fellow on January 1.
Expertise in autonomous vehicles has taken a team led by three Waterloo Engineering professors from a snow-covered parking lot in Stratford to a demonstration course in sunny Las Vegas.
More than 25 researchers from Waterloo are at the high-profile Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week to help showcase a highly automated car developed by Renesas Electronics America in collaboration with numerous partners.
Two students from Waterloo Engineering are among six finalists for a $10,000 award for excellence in undergraduate research in the biomedical field.
Nidhi Juthani and Wesley Walker are scheduled to outline their research projects to a panel of judges and answer questions Jan. 6 at the Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) in Toronto.
As a “guy who likes to solve puzzles,” James Craig is certainly in an appropriate field.
There is no end of tough ones to tackle as the University of Waterloo civil and environmental engineering professor pursues the development and refinement of computer models to predict what will happen in watersheds.
Mahsa Emami-Taba, an electrical and computer engineering PhD student, won the CASCON 2016 Best Student Paper Award for her work entitled A Bayesian Game Decision-Making Model for Uncertain Adversary Types.
The award was presented at CASCON 2016, the 26th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering sponsored by IBM Canada Lab Centre for Advanced Studies.
Emami-Taba is supervised by Ladan Tahvildari, a Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor.
An artificial intelligence (AI) paper written by Waterloo systems design engineering researchers edged out work by 21 other leading research institutions and companies at a prestigious AI conference.