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Naveen Chandrashekar is developing a method of simulating career-ending injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) located in the knee. The mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor has designed a  simulator that is capable of accurately replicating high-speed knee movements, such as those resulting from intense athletic activity.

According to Chandrashekar, around 100,000 athletes in North America tear their ACL every year, resulting in more than $2 billion in treatment costs annually.

An electrical and computer engineering professor is creating a novel terahertz frequency laser that can operate closer to room temperature than any other previously developed.

Three Waterloo Engineering graduates are the first recipients of the new Scientists and Engineers in Business Fellowship, created to help turn innovations into businesses. Armen Bakirtzian, JS Rancourt, and Ryan Denomme each received $60,000 in the first round of fellowships. Two more rounds of fellowships will be awarded in the next eight months.
 

Thanks to groundbreaking research being undertaken by civil engineering master's student Andrew Northmore we could one day be driving on glass  instead of asphalt or concrete. With solar panels embedded below the glass much-needed electricity would be generated.

Reinhold Schuster, a Waterloo civil engineering professor emeritus, has been awarded the 2012 CAN-AM Civil Engineering Amity award by the Technical Council on Cold Regions Engineering. Schuster was recognized for his research in cold-formed steel structures in both Canada and the U.S. His award will be presented to him during the International Cold Regions Engineering Conference taking place August 19-22 in Quebec City.

Crouton Labs, a team made up of third-year mechatronics engineering students Drew Gross, Akash Vaswani and Jake Nielsen and computer science student Christophe Biocca, took first place in the Brainstem Build-a-thon. The competition was held as part of the June 25-27 BrainSTEM "unconference" at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. The Build-a-thon included 10 teams of university and college students that worked for 48 hours to create a digital media product.

According to a recent survey conducted by Business Insider, a respected U.S. based online news source, Waterloo Engineering is the best engineering school in Canada.

The same survey placed Waterloo 29th in the world, with two other Canadian universities included in the top 50. The University of Toronto ranked 35th and the University of Ottawa took the 44th spot.

A recent theoretical study by a doctoral candidate in nanotechnology engineering suggests that manufacturers may one day make lasers and LEDs out of silicon, with the potential to significantly lower their price.

Two Waterloo Engineering graduate students have received prestigious NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships that will help them pursue and complete doctoral degrees and conduct significant engineering research. The recipients are Ahmed Abdel Aziz of electrical and computer engineering and Mohit Verma of chemical engineering. 

Kyrylo Cyril Rewa, a Waterloo civil engineering master’s student, has challenged some beliefs about cyclists in a study by the University of Waterloo and Waterloo Region that was presented June 26 among the opening sessions of Velo-city Global 2012 in Vancouver.