Waterloo Engineering women were honoured during March's National Engineering Month with a faculty member, two graduate students, and an alumna included as part of #30in30, an initiative that featured 30 outstanding women in engineering over 30 days.
Critical research into health care operations, medical imaging systems, micro-nano devices for cancer detection and smart energy distribution received a boost with four Waterloo Engineering professors receiving new and renewed appointments as Canada Research Chairs on March 28.
The appointments add more than $2 million in funding to the Faculty.
Palette, Petro Predict, SparkGig and TrendRadius, four passionate startups with strong collaborators, solid business models and great pitches walked away with funding of $25,000 each and coveted spots in the Velocity’s business incubation hub.
Three graduate students from the Faculty of Engineering competed in Waterloo’s second annual university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
From March 26th's Daily Bulletin
Barry Wills, a member of the University of Waterloo's first graduating class of engineers and one of the University's longest-serving faculty members, died March 18 at the age of 74.
Wills, who was a systems design engineering professor, retired in 2006 
after 42 years with the Faculty of Engineering.
Rania Al-Hammoud is one of three University of Waterloo students to be awarded the 2014 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
PiinPoint, a location analytics company, co-founded by Jim Robeson, a graduate of Waterloo Engineering's Master in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program, and Adam Saunders, a current Waterloo Environment student, is the latest company from University of Waterloo incubator VeloCity, to participate in the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley.
Josh Bradshaw, a second-year systems design engineering student, has been chosen by the University of Waterloo as Engineering's 2013 co-op student of the year.
High school students with a passion for designing, building and programming robots will compete from March 20 to 22 at the University of Waterloo in the qualifying round for FIRST, an international robotics competition.
Thirty teams with names such as SWAT, Warp7, Simbotics, Ice Cubed, BeaverworX, REBotics and Ram-ferno will vie for an invitation to the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, where they will compete with teams from all over the world for the title of 2014 FRC World Champions.
Adrian Gerlich, a University of Waterloo Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor, has been named the NSERC/TransCanada Industrial Research Chair in Welding for Energy Infrastructure.