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An online education company co-founded by two Waterloo Engineering alumni announced this week that it has secured $159 million in backing to fuel its expansion.

Prodigy Education, one of the fastest-growing education technology companies in North America, was launched by Rohan Mahimker and Alex Peters, who both graduated in 2011 from the mechatronics engineering program at Waterloo.

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Household appliances and other devices could be operated with simple voice commands using highly efficient new artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo and explainable AI company DarwinAI, the technology enables the creation of low-cost, low-power, self-contained speech recognition software that is tailored to specific tasks.

I know this is difficult news to hear the first week back from our holiday break and days after hearing about the loss of one of our second-year chemical engineering students. It is with deep sadness that I share that Aidan Walker, a second-year mechatronics engineering student, passed away on Saturday, January 2^nd due to a brain aneurysm.

A Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering (MME) professor started as chair of the department at the beginning of 2021.

Experts at Waterloo Engineering are teaming up with counterparts at the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to help Canadian companies capitalize on the enormous potential of metal 3D printing technologies.

It is with deep sadness that I share information about the death of one of our students - Mihir Rodrigues, a second-year Chemical Engineering student.

Waterloo Engineering faculty members will advance their work through inaugural Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs.  

Catherine Burns, a systems design engineering professor, is the new Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Human Factors in Healthcare Systems. 

More than a year after publishing a paper that attracted worldwide attention, a Waterloo Engineering researcher is working towards commercialization of technology to tackle climate change.

Yimin Wu, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, was inspired by nature to create an “artificial leaf” that converts harmful carbon dioxide into an alternative fuel.

A new study by Waterloo Engineering researchers found that targeting wetland restoration in heavily farmed areas would dramatically reduce the amount of nitrogen polluting rivers, lakes and coastal areas.

The researchers, who collaborated with a University of Waterloo alumnus who is now a professor at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), examined detailed data on wetland locations and nitrogen loads from fertilizer on farm fields throughout the United States.

A faculty member of Waterloo’s electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department has been named a 2021 fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the country’s longest-standing engineering society.