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Friday, November 28, 2014

Waterloo Engineering startup wins big

EyeCheck, a startup that brings eye exams to impoverished and remote communities, was the big winner at the fall Velocity Fund Finals (VFF). The team is one of four Waterloo-based startups to win a $25,000 grant from Velocity, an entrepreneurship program at the University of Waterloo. EyeCheck also won an additional $10,000 as the competition’s top hardware startup.

Raafat Mansour, an electrical and computer engineering professor, was honoured with an engineering medal for research and development by the Raafat MansourOntario Society of Professional Engineers at its annual awards gala held November 22.

Faizul Mohee, a civil engineering doctoral candidate, has been awarded the 2014 Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (CPCI) Scholarship.

Each year, the  $1,500 scholarship is awarded to just one graduate student in the province for graduate or post graduate studies in the field of precast prestressed concrete. 

The 2014 IBM Conference Best Technology Showcase Award was recently awarded to three electrical and computer engineers for their work entitled A Dynamic Markov Game for Decision Making in Self-Protecting Software.