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Expanding upon its long legacy of excellence, the Department of Management Sciences at Waterloo Engineering has undergone an official name change to better encapsulate the unit’s distinctive, interdisciplinary approach to education within the engineering field.

The introduction of the department’s new name – Management Science and Engineering (MSE) – follows more than a year of discussions, meetings and town halls with students, faculty, staff, alumni and senior engineering faculty leadership.

Seven Waterloo Engineering faculty members will receive a combined total of $900,000 from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to carry out world-class research that will help solve real-world problems.

Their research projects range from collaborative robots for human support, solutions to improve indoor air quality, magnetic microrobots for specific medical applications and an infrared hyperspectral camera to quantify greenhouse gas emissions.

A team of researchers is designing novel systems to capture water vapour in the air and turn it into liquid.

University of Waterloo professor Dr. Michael Tam and his PhD students Yi Wang and Weinan Zhao have developed sponges or membranes with a large surface area that continually capture moisture from their surrounding environment.

An electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professor has won an international prize for women that recognizes excellence in science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design.

Dr. Mahla Poudineh, who serves as director for ECE’s IDEATION lab, is one of six recipients of the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award for Science. 

Enerza, a robotics engineering company, is creating a beetle-like robot that can predict power outages and mitigate wildfires.

Co-founded by Anson Maitland (PhD ’19, systems design engineering) and James Aein, Enerza's technology provides autonomous on-wire robots that will transform utility inspection processes to reduce the risk of conflagration from power line issues. 

A Waterloo Engineering professor was awarded $1.2 million in federal funding to protect Canada’s critical energy infrastructure and energy sector supply chains from cyber threats.

Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister and his research team will use the grant to develop an enhanced cybersecurity system, using a checkpoint technology, that can identify the threats to the supply chains serving the country’s energy sector.

The University of Waterloo’s new Trust in Research Undertaken in Science and Technology Scholarly Network (TRuST) brings together researchers and practitioners from across disciplines to improve communication with the public and build trust in science and technology.

Dr. Mary Wells, dean of Waterloo Engineering, Dr. Donna Strickland, recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Dr. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Canada Research Chair in Science, Health and Technology Communication, will host the inaugural speaker series event on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. 

Waterloo Engineering professor advances UN Sustainable Development Goals in the areas of affordable and clean energy and water.

Working with Canadian and international partners, Dr. David Simakov's research focuses on the conversion of CO2 into renewable synthetic fuels and sustainable hydrogen generation.  

Health-tech startup Vital Bio secured a total of US$48 million from investors including Sam Altman, 8VC and Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings to advance its medical diagnostics technology.  

Two of the company’s co-founders are Waterloo Engineering alumni Dr. Iman Khodadad (PhD ‘16) and Dr. Farnoud Kazemzadeh (PhD ‘15).

University of Waterloo researchers have developed a way to reduce bias in machine learning-generated decision-making and knowledge organization.

Led by Dr. Andrew Wong, a distinguished professor emeritus of systems design engineering at Waterloo, the research team has built an innovative  model that aims to enhance trust and reliability in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).