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Collaboration between an architecture professor and an avant-garde fashion designer could influence how cities of the future might look. Phillip Beesley of the School of Architecture is working with Iris van Herpen, a fashion designer based in Amsterdam who has created work worn by Lady Gaga. Two exhibits are on display in France through the summer. The unconventional collaboration sees the introduction of architectural elements to Van Herpen's clothes. [home page story]

Raising the Waterloo brand in Asia

A third-year Waterloo electrical engineering student is developing a smartphone app to connect New Delhi women to women-driven taxis.

Carl Haas, a civil and environmental engineering professor, has been elected to the National Academy of Construction. Haas was one of 25 out of 250 qualified individuals elected this year and the only Canadian to receive the honour. He was recognized for his "outstanding long-term contributions in the practice and science of construction technology, productivity and workforce improvement through research and professional leadership." The new academy members' induction will take place this October in Scottsdale, Arizona.
 

The Conrad Centre is running an eight-week challenge for incoming Master of Business Entrepreneurship and Technology students to win  scholarship money for their upcoming year and to also encourage community participation. The Innovator Challenge consists of three questions that will be asked every two weeks until the end of August.

When Armen Bakirtzian was a fourth-year mechatronics engineering student at the University Waterloo, he began work on a tool that would help orthopedic surgeons like his own father align joints more accurately. 

Matt Rendall (BASc '08, Mtron; MBET '09), co-founder and CEO of Clearpath Robotics, is a finalist in the Young Entrepreneur category of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, which honours Canada's leading entrepreneurs from all areas of business.  Rendall's company develops and manufactures unmanned vehicles used for autonomous vehicle research and data collection on land and sea.

Three members of Waterloo's electrical and computer engineering department received the best paper award at the 2013 Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2013) conference held June 20-21 in Seattle, Washington.  The paper was authored by Sebastian Fischmeister and Anwar Hasan, both professors in the department, and  Carlos Moreno, who was a doctoral candidate when the paper was submitted. Their winning entry is entitled Non-Intrusive Program Tracing and Debugging of Deployed Embedded Systems Through Side-Channel Analysis. 

Susan Tighe, a civil engineering professor and the Canada Research Chair in Pavement and Infrastructure Management, was interviewed July 4 on CBC radio about the latest research taking place by Waterloo engineers to improve the quality of concrete and asphalt pavement roads.