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A flame-retardant product inspired by seaweed has earned two recent Waterloo Engineering graduates a spot in the finals of a prestigious international design competition.

Anneke van Heuven (BASc ’21) and Elias Trouyet (BASc ’21), co-founders of startup company AlgoBio, were named today to the global top 20 for the 2021 James Dyson Award, an annual showcase for student inventors.

Dear Colleagues,

It is with the greatest sadness that I share the news of the passing of our colleague Professor Safieddin (Ali) Safavi-Naeini on Sunday, October 10^th after a recent illness. Ali was a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the director of the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS).

Waterloo Engineering remains the top engineering school in Canada in terms of program reputation, according to annual rankings released by Maclean’s magazine for 2022.

Overall, based on survey responses from more than 1,200 faculty members and senior administrators across the country, Waterloo slipped slightly to second place based on both program reputation and research reputation. It tied for the top overall spot last year.

For the second year in a row, a winner of a prestigious national scholarship has chosen to study systems design engineering at Waterloo.

Malik Dahel of Montreal started his academic career this fall as a 2021 Loran Scholar backed by up to $100,000 over four years for living expenses, tuition, summer work opportunities and other benefits.

A company that is co-owned by former classmates at Waterloo Engineering has hit pay dirt with the sale of its cardiology business for US $1.75 billion.

Baylis Medical Company Inc., which is co-owned by Frank Baylis (BASc ’86, electrical engineering) and Kris Shah (BASc ’86, electrical engineering), announced this week that it has reached a deal with Boston Scientific Corp. that is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.

Three first-year students at Waterloo Engineering are starting their studies with support from a technology giant.

Shivam Jindal of Mississauga, Mulei Mao of Scarborough and Sophia Nguyen of Toronto are among the first 10 recipients of $30,000 scholarships from Amazon.

The new Amazon Future Engineer Canada program was created to help graduating high school students in underserved and underrepresented communities cover their university tuition.

Waterloo Engineering is continuing its climb up annual rankings by Times Higher Education of the best engineering schools in the world.

In results released by the United Kingdom publisher today, Waterloo took the 76^th spot for 2022, up from 82^nd last year and 89^th in 2020.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have made a key advancement in the development of technology to automatically analyze video of hockey games using artificial intelligence (AI).

The researchers combined two existing deep-learning AI techniques to identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy.

Decades after graduating from Waterloo Engineering, an alumnus is commemorating the supportive relationship he had with his doctoral supervisor by funding a professorship in both their names.

An architecture professor’s amphibious house research in Vietnam is featured as a Global Best Practice project at Expo 2020 Dubai opening today in the United Arab Emirates.