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A Waterloo Engineering research team has achieved a historic breakthrough in transforming the carbon dioxide emissions driving climate change into clean fuels.

Led by Dr. Yimin Wu, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the team has refined a process over a two-year period that could play a significant role in helping decarbonize industrial emissions and boost both the environment and national economies.

A Waterloo Engineering team will compete in the Battery Workforce Challenge, a three-year student competition run by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to advance electric vehicle (EV) power. 

Led by Dr. Yverick Rangom, a chemical engineering professor, the team will design, build, test and integrate an advanced electric vehicle (EV) battery pack into a Stellantis vehicle.

The dean of engineering and a professor in chemical engineering have been named to a high-profile list of Canada's 100 most powerful women.

Dean Mary Wells and Dr. Aiping Yu are listed among the leaders in education, business and the community who have made the grade and have campus-wide ties to the University of Waterloo.

The recipients of Waterloo Engineering's 2023 teaching, research and staff excellence awards were announced today by Dean Mary Wells.

In a memo to engineering faculty and staff, Wells said she would like to "thank all our award recipients for their inspiring work and ongoing dedication to the faculty." The winners will be recognized officially at the Engineering Faculty & Staff Awards Dinner in January 2024.

An outreach program aiming to significantly increase enrollment and improve the experience of young women in engineering programs was named first runner-up by a global group of engineering deans for a prestigious diversity award.

The Hydro One Women in Engineering University Partnership (HOWEUP), led by a university group featuring the University of Waterloo, received second place out of three shortlisted projects for the Global Engineering Deans Council’s (GEDC) Diversity Award.

Kitchener-based startup Coastal Carbon has received $1.6 million in funding from Canada’s Ocean Supercluster (OSC) to undertake the AI-Driven Sensors for Seaweed Measurement Project. 

Co-founded in 2022 by Waterloo Engineering alumni and PhD candidate Kelly Zheng (BASc '19, chemical engineering) and Thomas Storwick (BASc ‘19, nanotechnology engineering and MASc ‘21, chemical engineering), the company’s mission is to tap the ocean for valuable data.

Waterloo Engineering alum Jagdeep Singh Bachher (BASc ‘93, mechanical engineering, MASc '94, management sciences and PhD '00, management sciences) has been named the University of Waterloo’s 12th chancellor. 

In his new role as chancellor, the titular head of the University, he will be a key ambassador for the institution, building and nurturing relationships across the broader Waterloo community and advancing its mission provincially, nationally, and internationally in keeping with the Vision for Waterloo at 100. 

A team of University of Waterloo Engineering researchers has created smart, advanced materials that will be the building blocks for a future generation of soft medical microrobots.

Led by Dr. Hamed Shahsavan, a chemical engineering professor, the research team has developed tiny robots that have the potential to conduct medical procedures, such as biopsy, and cell and tissue transport, in a minimally invasive fashion.

Ten Key Labs, a Toronto-based software startup, has launched a new equity management platform called Mantle and secured $10.5 million in seed funding.  

Ten Key Labs was co-founded in 2022 by Waterloo Engineering alum Amar Varma (BASc ‘99, electrical and computer engineering), son of Nityanand Varma who helped establish the Varma Family Professorship in Robotics in the Faculty’s electrical and computer engineering department.

Hundreds of graduating engineering and architecture students recently celebrated the end of their current academic journey as they received their University of Waterloo degrees at convocation.

With family, friends and the Faculty of Engineering and School of Architecture community in attendance, 102 undergraduate, 224 Master's and 66 PhD students crossed the stage during their Saturday afternoon convocation ceremony on campus.