An unexpected meeting leads Peter Golem (BASc ’74, MASc ’76) to the home of celebrated professor Park Reilly.
Peter Golem shares details of his visit with Park and Veva Reilly with some interesting personal connections and life intersections.
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Waterloo Engineering Dean Pearl Sullivan was on hand in Montreal today for the announcement of the first four projects backed by a supercluster created to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to supply chains.
Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence AI (scale ai), a consortium of almost 120 companies, universities, research institutions and other organizations, is a five-year effort supported by $230 million in federal funding, $30 million from the Quebec government and matching industry money.
A researcher at Waterloo Engineering has been appointed to an expert panel to help inform public policy on issues involving connected and automated vehicles.
Krzysztof Czarnecki, an electrical and computer engineering professor who co-leads an autonomous vehicle pilot program at Waterloo, joins 12 other people on the Expert Panel on Connected and Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility.
Two Waterloo Engineering faculty members and an alumnus are new members of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Five researchers at Waterloo Engineering have had Canada Research Chairs for world-class scientists and scholars awarded or renewed by the federal government through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
Waterloo Engineering is the winner of a prestigious gold award from the international Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for its Engineering 7 official opening and campaign close event held last October.
The gold Circle of Excellence award was captured in CASE's Special Events|Single-Day Events category.
A venture capital company is donating $1 million to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo to support research and education initiatives involving partners in the Greater China area.
GCI Ventures Ltd., which is based in Toronto and focuses on investing in technology and innovation, will provide funding over five years for international partnerships with institutes and corporations, and to hire a manager at Waterloo to oversee the activities.
A laboratory at Waterloo Engineering is part of a consortium that recently won up to $49 million in federal funding to accelerate the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning technologies in health care.
The Knowledge Inference in Medical Image Analysis (KIMIA) lab is headed by Hamid Tizhoosh, a systems design engineering professor and expert in medical image analysis.
A mechanical and mechatronics professorhas recently published her first collection of poems in English and Persian titled Tales of Existence, A Collection of Poems.
Shahrzad Esmaeili, pictured on the right, credits the University of Waterloo, where she began teaching in 2004, for providing 
inspiration for some of her poems.
Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have combined new artificial intelligence (AI) software with low-cost testing tools to enable communities in the developing world to routinely monitor water quality.
The technology builds on work previously done by Sushanta Mitra, an engineering professor who heads the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, and post-doctoral fellow Naga Siva Kumar Gunda on inexpensive kits to test for potentially deadly E. coli bacteria.