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Kitchener-based startup Ceragen has secured US$2 million in seed funding to expand operations and develop its technology in additional countries.  

The company was co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alum Matthew Rose (BASc ‘21, mechatronics, robotics and automation). The startup optimizes fruit and vegetable production by developing soil microbes that aid produce grown in greenhouses.  

Dr. Jennifer Howcroft received the Ron Britton Engineering Education Vanguard Award at the 2024 Conference of the Canadian Engineering Education Association – Association Canadienne de l’éducation en génie (CEEA-ACÉG).

The award is given annually to a person who, early in their career, has committed to the development of engineering education in Canada through practice and research, and contributed to the field in a way that demonstrates their commitment to innovation, change and improvement in engineering education.

A forensic investigation done in 1945 by the British Army concluded that between 340 and 389 people died on Alderney, an English Channel Island, during the Second World War.

Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, a professor at Waterloo Engineering's School of Architecture, helped review the evidence to determine the most accurate death count possible. The findings, while higher than the original, put to bed conspiracy theories claiming the true death toll was in the thousands.

Three teams of Waterloo Architecture undergraduate students presented papers at the 2024 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference.

The students were the only undergraduates to have papers accepted at the conference, and they received recognition for engaging in research at this early stage of their academic journey.

Waterloo Engineering researchers have paired inexpensive wireless communication antennas with artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how doctors can detect bone fractures.

Led by Dr. Omar Ramahi, an electrical and computer engineering professor, the team has created a new system to detect bone fractures that is fast, accurate and safe.

Dr. Sushanta Mitra, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Executive Director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, has been announced as Fellow of The Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his exceptional contributions in sensor technology for water quality monitoring and deployment of sensors in communities and industries.

Fellows are selected for demonstrating advanced individual technological contributions in electrochemical and solid state science and technology, as well as active membership and involvement in the society.

Dr. David Clausi, a professor in the Department of Systems Design Engineering and Associate Dean - Research and External Partnerships for the Faculty of Engineering, has been appointed as a University Research Chair.

The award recognizes researchers who have a distinguished record of accomplishments and a continued outstanding trajectory of excellence in research and scholarship, as well as research leadership.

An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Waterloo is  working to improve treatment adherence for a children’s eye condition with the help of a social robot.  

Dr. Kerstin Dautenhahn, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ali Yamini (MASc ‘22, electrical and computer engineering) joined colleagues with backgrounds in optometry and psychology to develop this novel treatment for ‘lazy eye’.   

This June, members of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering took home three awards from the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Canada Annual Conference.

There were awards for the University of Waterloo’s ITE student chapter and a scholarship for undergraduate Adriana Ceric (BASc ‘26, civil engineering).

Three women leaders in their chosen fields share with the Waterloo Engineering community how they harnessed the power of their STEM backgrounds to chart exciting life and career paths.  

Waterloo Engineering alumni Inderjit Takk (BASc ‘98, systems design engineering) and Stephanie Thompson (BASc ‘01, chemical engineering) joined Linda Archer Cornfield (LLD ’24), in an inspiring discussion moderated by Dr. Mary Wells, dean of the Faculty of Engineering.