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Two Waterloo professors in civil and environmental engineering, Dr. Chul Min Yeum and Dr. Sriram Narasimhan, have created a smart city infrastructure monitoring and alerting system.

The Remote Inspection Platform (RIP) uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide an alternative approach to the typically costly, difficult and tedious process of manually inspecting bridges. 

Dr. Maya Przybylski is dropping the ‘interim’ from her title as she begins a new appointment as the O’Donovan Director of Waterloo’s School of Architecture in September.

Przybylski has served as Waterloo Architecture’s director in an interim capacity since July 2022 after previous director Dr. Anne Bordeleau’s departure. A professor at the school since 2011, she held the associate director of undergraduate studies role before her elevation to interim director and is a past recipient of the Faculty of Engineering’s Teaching Excellence Award.

Ottawa-based video surveillance software company Solink has raised US$60 million to fuel its global growth plans.

Co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alumnus Michael Matta (BASc ‘07, electrical and computer engineering), the company helps organizations improve their physical security by identifying and mitigating operational risk.

Jack Farlow, a second-year biomedical engineering student, has achieved a remarkable feat by qualifying for the 2023 CrossFit Games - a multi-day competition that brings together elite athletes from around the world to compete for the title of Fittest on Earth.

After two previous attempts, making it to the semifinals each time, Farlow secured his spot in to compete in this years’ finals taking place August 3 to 6 in Madison, Wisconsin. He stands out as the only student participant and the second youngest contender among the 40 competitors in the finals.

One of the greatest threats to the health of the Great Lakes is the increasing frequency of algal blooms, occurring in response to excess nutrients in the water due to a warming climate.

In response to the urgent need to better understand and mitigate human impacts on water quality, Dr. Nandita Basu, a civil and environmental engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Water Sustainability and Ecohydrology, has been awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alliance grant for one such approach.

Dr. Michael Tam, a chemical engineering professor and University Research Chair, was announced as the inaugural deputy editor of a cutting-edge new journal that will publish novel and globally relevant original research dedicated to advancing the United Nations' sustainable development goals. 

Tam will lead the American Chemical Society's (ACS) new journal Sustainable Resource Management, which will feature emerging technologies that close the loop using various processes to convert natural and waste resources into useful intermediates and products. The journal begins accepting submissions on July 12, 2023, and aims to publish its first edition in January 2024.

Systems design engineering professor Dr. Alexander Wong was recently announced as a new Royal Society of Medicine fellow.

Wong’s introduction as a fellow allows him to join a prestigious group of healthcare professionals who are passionate about advancing health through education and innovation.

Waterloo Engineering alumnus Stephanie Holko (BASc ’04, chemical engineering) experienced the trip of a lifetime on an all-women research expedition that took her to explore Norway's Arctic fjords.

The Sea Women Expeditions' mission is to scout, record and document a warming Arctic, as well as to provide opportunities for Indigenous women, non-Indigenous women and gender diverse people to gain leadership skills and field experience.

Waterloo Engineering’s fourth-grade outreach program has won a CASE Circle of Excellence Award.

The “Kids on Campus: Imagining Your Future Self in STEM" program extends engineering education to younger audiences in an equitable fashion. Through on-campus experiences, diverse groups of young school children are immersed in a variety of STEM-focused activities that inspire them to envision themselves as future professionals in the field.

The University of Waterloo has secured $345,000 from the Ontario government to run three outreach projects designed to connect the next generation of workers to the province’s growing automotive sector.

Delivered by the University’s Faculty of Engineering, these projects form part of the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network’s (OVIN) Regional Future Workforce (RFW) program. The projects will engage young and underrepresented students from diverse backgrounds with activities focused on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects and introduce them to potential career paths in the automotive industry.