A startup company with strong ties to Waterloo Engineering won more than $140,000 in backing this week at a prestigious pitch event in Texas.
CataLight, which aims to make safe drinking water accessible to everyone, was among seven finalists at the Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest and richest student startup contest in the world.
Sherman Shen, an electrical and computer engineering professor, is the 2019 recipient of the IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal.
Established in 2000, the medal is awarded to outstanding Canadian engineers for their important contributions 
to the field of telecommunications engineering.
Hackers at the University of Waterloo topped counterparts at more than 2,000 other schools to take first-place honours in a North American league for the popular invention competitions.
The result reflected the fact over 3,200 Waterloo students took part in more than 150 events supported by Major League Hacking (MLH) during the 2017-2018 season and finished in the top three at 30 of them.
Six teams of graduating Waterloo Engineering students won financial backing this week as they work to develop their fourth-year design projects into businesses.
The winners were picked by a panel of judges from 15 finalists at the Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design, an annual pitch competition with more than $60,000 in prize money.
Graduate students at Waterloo Engineering took the top two awards in a competition at the Velocity startup incubator to support research with commercial potential.
Jason Deglint, a PhD candidate in systems design engineering, collected $20,000 to back Blue Lion Labs, a startup that analyzes algae in water samples using a custom microscope and artificial intelligence.
The Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (AMC), a joint partnership between McMaster University, University of Waterloo, and Western University, is helping to accelerate industry adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies, which will create jobs and strengthen the province’s reputation as a leading manufacturing region.
Since AMC was launched in April 2017, nearly 100 companies have benefited from the advanced manufacturing experts and state-of-the-art facilities at Waterloo.
Waterloo Engineering student teams will have 90 seconds to win over judges as they pitch their inventive ideas April 2 to compete for $60,000 in funding.
Two Capstone Design teams earned a significant financial boost as winners of this year’s Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund competition created to help transform projects into successful startups post-graduation.
Waterloo Engineering entrepreneurs made another strong showing today at the main event of the Velocity Fund Finals for winter 2019, taking three of the four $50,000 investments that were on the line.
Investment-ready startups SiteVue, ClearVoxel and Glove Systems had three minutes to distinguish themselves in a field of nine competitors in the pitch event at the Tannery Event Centre in downtown Kitchener.
Paul Fieguth, chair of systems design engineering, is being recognized with a Distinguished Teacher Award for his strong support of students both inside and outside the classroom.