Each year, Waterloo Engineering recognizes Faculty members for their outstanding contributions and unwavering dedication to education and research.
The recipients of the Faculty's four faculty and staff awards were recently announced by Mary Wells, dean of engineering, and celebrated virtually.
Chamath Palihapitiya, the outspoken venture capitalist, former social media executive and Waterloo Engineering alumnus, has made an annual list of the 50 most influential Canadians published by Maclean’s magazine.
Palihapitiya, who graduated from the electrical engineering program in 1999 before making his fortune at Facebook and as a founder of Social Capital, holds down the 33rd spot on the 2021 Maclean’s Power List.
The University of Waterloo has joined forces with five other Ontario universities to increase academic and industry diversity by creating new fellowships for Indigenous and Black students pursuing doctoral degrees in engineering.
An online education company co-founded by two Waterloo Engineering alumni announced this week that it has secured $159 million in backing to fuel its expansion.
Prodigy Education, one of the fastest-growing education technology companies in North America, was launched by Rohan Mahimker and Alex Peters, who both graduated in 2011 from the mechatronics engineering program at Waterloo.
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Household appliances and other devices could be operated with simple voice commands using highly efficient new artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
Developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo and explainable AI company DarwinAI, the technology enables the creation of low-cost, low-power, self-contained speech recognition software that is tailored to specific tasks.
I know this is difficult news to hear the first week back from our holiday break and days after hearing about the loss of one of our second-year chemical engineering students. It is with deep sadness that I share that Aidan Walker, a second-year mechatronics engineering student, passed away on Saturday, January 2nd due to a brain aneurysm.
A Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering (MME) professor started as chair of the department at the beginning of 2021.
Experts at Waterloo Engineering are teaming up with counterparts at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to help Canadian companies capitalize on the enormous potential of metal 3D printing technologies.
It is with deep sadness that I share information about the death of one of our students - Mihir Rodrigues, a second-year Chemical Engineering student.
Waterloo Engineering faculty members will advance their work through inaugural Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs.
Catherine Burns, a systems design engineering professor, is the new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Human Factors in Healthcare Systems.