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A recent graduate of Waterloo Engineering is taking a big step towards his dream of becoming an astronaut and travelling to Mars.

Jin Sing Sia (BASc ’21, mechanical engineering) is now in the midst of a two-week stay at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, a facility that simulates the Red Planet to help researchers learn how humans could survive there.

A new student at Waterloo Engineering is starting his studies backed by a national scholarship for the Deaf and hard of hearing.

Alexander Loo, of Pickering, is one of 23 winners nationwide of up to $3,000 a year for four years provided by Canadian Hearing Services (CHS).

A longstanding partnership between Waterloo Engineering researchers and a leading projection company has yielded new technology for a state-of-the-art laser projector.

A patented algorithm developed at the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab drives resolution enhancement in the new M 4K25 RBG projector produced by Christie, a global company with engineering headquarters in Kitchener.

A researcher at Waterloo Engineering whose recent work on the effectiveness of masks and ventilation in preventing the spread of COVID-19 indoors received widespread media coverage is stressing that any mask is better than no mask.

A question-and-answer media release with Serhiy Yarusevich, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, was issued after his study with fellow professor Sean Peterson and engineering PhD students Yash Shan and John Kurelek was misrepresented by many media outlets as part of the politicization of mask usage.

This year’s incoming class of systems design engineering students will be navigating their first semester at the University of Waterloo alongside visitors from the far-off planet TsTs.  

Waterloo Engineering researchers have teamed up with the federal government and Magna International to help ensure the safety and security of vehicles as they become increasingly autonomous.

Announced today, a $1.6-million project headed by Sebastian Fischmeister, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, involves the development of theories, methods and tools to produce complex automotive software for connected and automated vehicles.

A student project to reduce plastic waste was recently chosen as the Canadian winner of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s (CEC) Youth Innovation Challenge.

With its present ability to deliver high-value, low-volume parts and components, additive manufacturing (AM) is a perfect fit for the specialized needs and demands of the aeronautics industry.

A pair of undergraduate students at Waterloo Engineering are co-directors of the 2021 edition of Hack the North, which begins today and runs until Sunday.

The largest hackathon in Canada, the student-run, mostly virtual event is expected to draw more than 3,000 student participants from around the world to build technology projects from scratch in just 36 hours.

A startup company with deep roots at Waterloo Engineering won the top prize in a pitch contest focused on the use of nanomaterials to create or improve commercial products.

AquaSensing, which designs battery-free water leak detection systems for healthcare and industrial applications, took home $10,000, plus a spot in a virtual incubator, in the Nanomaterials Virtual Pitch Contest staged by not-for-profit NanoOntario and CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit managing Canada’s National Design Network®.