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A group of six Waterloo Engineering students is building on a successful aid project in Bangladesh by launching a not-for-profit organization to make even more of a difference in the developing world.

Engineers For Hope began two years ago as a student design team made up of civil engineering classmates Adnan Abu Atiya, Tariq Hasan, Rumman Rahman, Shihab Saadeldeen, Nirbhay Singh and Youssef Zaki.

Waterloo Engineering professor William Melek was featured in a recent story in the Financial Post about the slow but increasing adoption of automation and robotics in Canada’s energy sector.

“Repetitive, tedious tasks can be given to robots, but skilled labour will still be needed,” said Melek, the director of mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Steven Waslander, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, shared his insights on the near future of autonomous and connected cars in a recent article in the Report on Business in the Globe and Mail. 

With a father who is an architect and a mother who is a designer, it seems only fitting that Piper Bernbaum would follow a similar career path.

And the School of Architecture graduate has done just that, while breaking new ground along the way with her award-winning thesis research into the spatial practice of the Jewish Eruv. An Eruv is an area marked by wire that extends Orthodox Jewish households and the leniencies of private space into public areas.

More accessible and affordable disease diagnosis may soon be possible thanks to work by Waterloo Engineering researchers Farnoud Kazemzadeh and Alexander Wong on a new form of microscope for use in pathology.

A team of Waterloo chemical engineering students captured first place in the seventh annual Electric Mobility Canada (EMC) Student competition held during the Electric Mobility National Conference in Toronto.

This year, students were challenged with the task of creating a short-term plan to make their campus accessible for electric vehicles (EVs). The plan needed to include all aspects of transportation electrification, such as charging infrastructure, electrification of campus fleet, grid load management, and EV outreach to students, professors, and staff.

Mariko Shimoda, a second-year mechanical engineering student at the University of Waterloo, is the winner of a scholarship from the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) for the Ontario region. She is one of five remarkable women from regions across the country to receive the 2017 CEMF Undergraduate Women in Engineering Scholarship.

Smart meters and time-of-use electricity pricing have only modestly reduced residential demand during the most expensive peak periods, a new study suggests.

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo compared data for nine months before and nine months after time-of-use rates were introduced in November 2011 by an unidentified distribution company with more than 20,000 household customers in southwestern Ontario.

Susan Tighe will break new ground when she takes over next month as president of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering for an elected one-year term.

A professor of civil and environmental engineering, Tighe is the first person from the University of Waterloo and just the second woman ever to lead the 5,000-member organization in its 117-year history.

The University of Waterloo is building one of the largest university-based facilities in the world to advance additive manufacturing (AM) and help companies adopt AM processes for innovative and customized products.

Backed by nearly $27 million in cash and in-kind support, the lab will enable Canadian companies to tap the enormous potential of AM, commonly known as industrial 3D printing, while also further developing the technology through research.