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A company founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus was recently awarded $3.5 million in startup funding through a federal agency that invests in new clean technologies.

Pulse Industrial, a $25,000 winner in 2018 at the Velocity Fund Finals pitch competition at the University of Waterloo, was one of 16 companies across the country to receive investments from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

A recent graduate who earned financial backing through entrepreneurial programs at Waterloo Engineering is one of three alumni to make a national list of emerging leaders in business and academia.

Hannah Sennik (BASc ’19, systems design engineering) is a co-founder and CEO of Rekammend, a startup with a word-retrieval application to give patients who’ve suffered strokes or traumatic brain injuries their voices back.

Ning Jiang has an early memory of visiting the hospital where his parents worked in China and seeing someone walking with the aid of a prosthetic. This experience and others he had as the son of two physicians led Jiang to begin thinking how technology could be used for good.

A systems design engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, Jiang is fascinated with devices and technology that can enhance human health and the way people experience the world around them.

Zhongchao Tan has been selected as a 2022 fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) for his “significant contributions” to the field of mechanical engineering.

In recent years, factories have been steadily modernizing their facilities with more automation and manufacturing capabilities. With faster and better additive manufacturing solutions that can custom-make durable parts in one piece without the expense of the tooling, a new and exciting chapter in digital manufacturing has begun. This shift has attracted a new generation of engineers back to the shop floor.

It has been a long but rewarding journey since Sebastian Fischmeister first hit on the concept of using involuntary emissions such as power consumption as a window into the workings of computer systems.

Early work on the idea as a means of debugging programs without shutting them down earned the electrical and computer engineering professor a best paper award soon after he came to the University of Waterloo.

Seven professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded a total of almost $1.1 million in federal funding this week through a program designed to help attract and retain top researchers.

The backing from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, is earmarked for infrastructure to ensure labs are equipped for world-class research and technology development.

The recipients at Waterloo Engineering are:

A consortium co-founded by the University of Waterloo will receive up to $80 million in federal funding to further research and development, increase commercialization opportunities and develop talent in the field of cybersecurity.

Waterloo is one of five founding universities of the National Cybersecurity Consortium, which was named by the Canadian government today to lead the Cyber Security Innovation Network.

The lead research body at Waterloo, the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, features more than 10 engineering professors.

A new study led by a Waterloo Engineering professor provides a roadmap to overcome the challenges associated with nitrogen that persists in ecosystems from excess fertilizer use in agriculture.

Nandita Basu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth and environmental sciences, and other researchers make six recommendations to improve water quality by addressing nitrogen pollution.

A doctoral alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has won an international award to continue her research on crop stress in her native Jordan.

Heba Alzaben, who earned a PhD in mechanical engineering in 2020, received the equivalent of about $15,000 through the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talents Program in a region that includes Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and the Syrian Arab Republic.