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Engineers honoured with degrees and awards June 14
Professor Bruce Rittmann was presented with an honorary Doctor of Engineering.
New grad passionate about giving back
Elizabeth Celentano’s advice to a new engineering student is the same that she’s lived by during the past five years: work hard, play hard.
At convocation on June 14, Celentano will graduate with distinction in chemical engineering and she'll take with her hundreds of hours of volunteer experience achieved through being a member of numerous groups, including the Engineering Society and the Engineering Orientation and Ambassador teams.
Waterloo's Empower Health fights disease in urban slums
A group of students and grads is tapping into Waterloo’s entrepreneurial spirit to bridge their passion for business with the desire to help others. The result is Empower Health, an organization committed to providing diagnostic and wellness programs to the world’s slum dwellers.
New partnership to address challenges facing the global economy
Siemens Canada Ltd. and the University of Waterloo will partner on a new youth training and skills development initiative to expand Canada’s capacity and research excellence in advanced manufacturing.
The partnership will address the challenges facing the global economy including digital manufacturing – challenges to which Siemens’ expertise and product portfolio are ideally and uniquely suited.
Waterloo's EV Challenge prepares teens for successful careers
On Saturday, May 31, the Sedra Student Design Centre hosted the third annual Waterloo High School Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, providing young students with the opportunity to not only race, but design an build electric cars as a team. More than that, the teams get experience with hands-on problem solving.
New lab designed for nano to quantum-scaled research
A state-of-the-art lab designed for research programs ranging from photonics to quantum computing to nanoelectronics opened its doors on June 4.
The Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) facility, located in the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre, is a high-end research and development lab with production capabilities.
Computer engineering grad changes the face of storytelling
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Waterloo tire recycling startup wins prestigious tech award
A University of Waterloo startup launched to commercialize an invention by Costas Tzoganakis, a chemical engineering professor, has been named one of the 2014 TiE50 winners. The prestigious TiE Silicon Valley honour is awarded to only 50 companies among thousands competing worldwide.
Best paper award for systems design engineers
Parthipan Siva, a Waterloo systems design engineering alumnus, and Alexander Wong, Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems and co-Director of the Vision and Image Processing Research Group in the systems design engineering department, were honoured with the Best Vision Paper Award at the 11th Conference on Computer and Robot Vision held May 7-9 in Montreal.