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Chemical engineering grad honoured for PhD thesis
Pouyan Sardashti was recently honoured with the 2014 Borealis Student Innovation Award for his doctoral thesis in the field of environmental stress cracking resistance of pol
Waterloo engineers chosen for prestigious Next 36
Three entrepreneurs from Waterloo Engineering are members of the new class of The Next 36 (N36), a Canadian program that provides academic instruction, business mentorship and venture building.
Smart infrastructure research receives funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
Sriram Narasimhan, Canada Research Chair in Smart Infrastructure and professor cross-appointed to the departments of civil and environmental engineering and mechanical and mechatronics engineering, is the recipient of $100,000 in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI).
Safavi-Naeini honoured with IEEE fellowship
Civil engineers win best paper award
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.
Engineering students gain access to student portal
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.
Company started as a Capstone Design project receives $18 million in funding
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.
Alumni startup wins TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield competition
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.
Clean potable water research receives Grand Challenges Canada funding
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.