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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Barry Wills remembered

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 Barry Willsafter 42 years with the Faculty of Engineering.


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.
 

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.
 

Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate and engineering outreach volunteer, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Master's Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious scholarship of $10,000 is awarded to one woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.Alison Scott