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Two young women at Waterloo Engineering have won $12,000 scholarships designed to help improve the gender balance in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) programs.

Isemi Ekundayo of computer engineering and Megan Lai of mechatronics engineering are among six campus-wide winners of HeForShe IMPACT scholarships awarded by the University of Waterloo.

Students who competed in last weekend’s Hack the North at the University of Waterloo received a piece of sage advice from engineering alumnus Chamath Palihapitiya: go fix the hard stuff.  

Two new students at Waterloo Engineering began their university careers this month with more than $100,000 each in backing from a national scholarship program.

Dhruv Patel and Lauren Prophet were among 34 young Canadians selected as Loran Scholars for 2018 from an initial pool of over 5,000 candidates.

Dhruv Patel is in the mechatronics engineering program.

Feridun Hamdullahpur leads a group of four Waterloo Engineering faculty members named today to a prestigious national organization for scholars, artists and scientists.

A mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor who has served as president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo since 2010, Hamdullahpur joins the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) as a specially elected fellow.

Keith Hipel, a longtime professor at Waterloo Engineering, was formally invested today into the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours.

Hipel was made an officer of the Order, a rank that recognizes national service or achievement, by Governor General Julie Payette during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.

A blog post, written by a visually impaired person about the challenges she faced trying to use the office’s new touch screen coffee maker, was the inspiration behind a recent Waterloo Engineering Capstone Design project that captured top honours in the Canadian leg of this year’s James Dyson Award.

A self-powered sensor developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers could allow doctors to remotely monitor the recovery of surgical patients.

The small, tube-like device is designed to be fitted to braces after joint surgery to wirelessly send information to computers, smartphones or smartwatches to track range of motion and other indicators of improvement.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have reached an important milestone by logging their 100^th kilometre on public roads in a self-driving car.

Achieved last week in an industrial area of Waterloo, it is the culmination of almost two years of work since the research team won approval from the Ontario government to do on-road testing in an autonomous vehicle pilot program.

Waterloo Engineering is continuing its relationship with Amazon through the Alexa Fellowship, a growing program to support research, education and entrepreneurship around conversational artificial intelligence (AI).

Waterloo was one of just four universities – along with Carnegie Melon University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Southern California - to participate in the program when it launched last year.

Sriram Narasimhan, a Waterloo civil and environmental engineering & mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, was interviewed by Ben Mulroney on CTV's Your Morning about the state of the country's bridges.

His insight into Canada's infrastructure comes two days after a bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy killing at least 39 people. The tragedy has prompted a year-long state of emergency to be declared in the region.