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The top two prizes in this year's University of Waterloo Nicol Entrepreneurial Award Competition were won by Waterloo Engineering undergraduate students. First place and $5,000 went to Philip La, a chemical engineering student, for Kingpin, a time saving service for single men that provides pre-ordered grooming and personal care items through an online subscription-based store. Emily Peat, a civil engineering student, won second place and $2,000 for ItsMyEcoPlace, an online community connecting people to local businesses that provide products and services for sustainable gardening, landscap

John Yeow's research made headlines in both the March 2 special engineering supplement of the Toronto Star and the paper's front page. One of Yeow's main research interests is inventing and developing tools for locating, examining and targeting micro-organisms inside the body. Yeow, a systems design engineering professor and the first Canada chair in micro and nanodevices, and his team of researchers have developed a miniaturized catheter that can  provide medical practitioners with precise internal body imaging.The catheter will likely assist in the early detection of cancer and other dise

Three Waterloo chemical engineering students beat out teams from across the country to win the first  Walmart Green Student Challenge on February 29 at the TMX Broadcast Centre in Toronto.

Yelda Turkan, a civil engineering doctoral candidate, is a recipient of a 2012 FIATECH student scholarship. Turkan, who does research in the area of automation in construction using 3D sensing technologies, has received a number of other honours, including the Irene Marguerite McLeod scholarship last year.

Students from Waterloo Engineering's Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program led the competition in the 2012 RBC Next Great Innovator Challenge, taking home first prize and $20,000 in cash. The winning idea from Waterloo students focussed on mobile banking and the creation of a new platform that will allow young Canadians to set financial goals, seek advice and budget effectively in order to achieve long-term financial security. Waterloo surpassed four finalist teams from other Canadian schools.

This year’s Waterloo Region Record “Forty Under 40” honours included six with direct links to Waterloo Engineering -- four alumni, a professor and a staff member. On the list were engineering graduates David Kroetsch, president of spinoff company Aeryon Labs; Michael Peasgood, vice-president for engineering at Aeryon; Craig Haney, director of marketing for Emergent and a community volunteer; and Andrea Clegg, an engineer at McCormick Rankin Corp.

Waterloo Engineering graduates working for or starting small companies will benefit from $2.3 million in new federal funding announced February 22 at the University of Waterloo. The university's graduate enterprise program, which helps master's and PhD graduates find jobs with small or medium companies, received almost $1.4 million. In addition, FedDev Ontario and the university are jointly sponsoring up to 20 commercialization fellowships to help recent graduates and new alumni commercialize an innovation and start a business.

Ravi Mazumdar and his team of electrical and computer engineering researchers, including Shreyas Sundaram, Hiren Patel and Siddharth Garg, have received over $500,000 in funding from NSERC for cloud computing research they’re undertaking with Research in Motion.

Leading scientists from organizations worldwide, including the University of Waterloo, launched a new report on February 19 that offers real-world strategies for addressing the world’s energy challenges. The Equinox Blueprint: Energy 2030 resulted from a gathering on energy organized by the Waterloo Global Science Initiative that took place in Waterloo in June 2011.

Karim S. Karim of electrical and computer engineering has won a $100,000 grant from Grand Challenges Canada to help improve global health by developing an inexpensive tuberculosis test to combat the disease in developing countries. Karim was one of 15 researchers recognized on February 9 by Grand Challenges Canada’s rising stars awards handed out to the country’s most creative innovators to improve global health.