Frank Baylis, a Waterloo electrical engineering alumnus, is the new Liberal MP in the western-Montreal Pierrefonds-Dollard riding, winning the seat from NDP incumbent Lysane Blanchette-Lamothe.
Researchers at National Taiwan University have recognized the University of Waterloo as an impressive force among Canada’s engineering institutions. Waterloo Engineering ranked second in Canada in the 2015 Taiwan Ranking’s engineering field, and first for Chemical Engineering. The University of Waterloo also ranked in Canada’s top five for the Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering subjects.
The University of Waterloo’s International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Team won a gold medal for the third consecutive year as well as Best Poster and Best Software Tool in this year’s Giant Jamboree competition held in Boston. It was also nominated for Best Foundational Advance Project.
The University of Waterloo, Canada’s leading innovation university, and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, one of the world’s top engineering schools, will introduce dual doctoral degrees in engineering that will allow select students to simultaneously earn a PhD from each institution.
Electrical and computer engineering professor Zhou Wang has won an Engineering Emmy® Award for his co-creators of Structural Similarity (SSIM), a mathematical formula and computer algorithm that is now widely used throughout the television industry.
The concepts of a quantum vacuum and quantum vacuum fluctuations are still not accepted by everyone. However, a group of researchers including the Institute of Quantum Computer's Christopher Wilson, a Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor, has found further evidence that the two concepts are a reality.
Two Waterloo Engineering professors are panelists at this year’s RAPID Canada Conference taking place this week in Mississauga.
Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering, and Ehsan Toyserkani, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, are participating in the conference, an industry-leading forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest developments, trends and techniques specific to additive manufacturing, rapid technologies, and 3D printing.
Nafeesa Mahboob, an electrical and computer engineering doctoral canadiate, received the Basil Papadias Student Paper Award for the best student paper at the biannual IEEE PowerTech 2015 Conference held in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
The paper was co-authored by her two doctoral supervisors Claudio Canizares and Catherine Rosenberg, both electrical and computer engineering professors. The award was presented with a plaque and 1000 euros.
Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor Zhou Wang is one of the new cohort of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. The 48 new members, who were nominated by 51 Canadian universities and the National Research Council, represent the emerging generation of scholarly, scientific and artistic leadership in Canada.
Tyromer Inc, a company established by the University of Waterloo to commercialize a greener way to recycle scrap tire rubber and manage scrap tire waste has opened a new facility housed inside the AirBoss Rubber Compounding building on Glasgow Street in Kitchener.