Safavi-Naeini honoured with IEEE fellowship
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Bill B. Anderson and Peter Huck, both civil and environmental engineering professors, and Barbara Siembida-Lösch, a former post-doctoral fellow, are the recipients of the American Water Works Association's 2015 Membrane Treatment Best Paper Award.
Portal is launching in the Faculty of Engineering this month. All students in Engineering programs, both undergraduate and graduate, will receive an email invitation to access the student portal starting this month.
Vidyard, a video platform company started as a Waterloo systems design engineering Capstone Design project, announced January 14 that it has raised $18 million in funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from existing investors iNovia Capital, OMERS Ventures, Salesforce Ventures and SoftTech VC.
Voltera, a startup founded by mechatronics engineering graduates, took first place and a $50,000 cash prize during TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield competition at the 2015 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas.
An engineering research project to deliver clean potable water to the developing world received $112,000 in funding last month through the federal government's Grand Challenges Canada.
Mohamed Kamel, an electrical and computer engineering professor, has been selected as the 2015 recipient of the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal.
Kyle Daun, a mechanical and mechatronics faculty member and member of the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship to support his upcoming sabbatical.
The Southern Rockies Watershed Project co-led by Monica Emelko, a civil and environmental engineering professor, was awarded the 2014 Council of the Federation Excellence in Water Stewardship Award for the province of Alberta.