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A graduate of Waterloo Engineering is a step closer to his “life’s dream” after making the list of finalists to become one of Canada’s next two astronauts.

Jesse Zroback, who earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Waterloo in 2008, was announced today as one of 17 remaining candidates in a search by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) that began last June with almost 4,000 applicants.

A prominent venture capitalist challenged entrepreneurs to think big this week as he announced the first three startups to receive funding through a three-year, $2-million program to provide guidance and financial support to promising University of Waterloo ventures.

“I’m hoping to find the next global company to emerge from here,” said Lyon Wong, a co-founder and general partner of Spectrum 28, a US $170-million fund based in Silicon Valley.

Elementary school children voted on designs for a new playground structure this week in a novel process involving first-year civil engineering students at the University of Waterloo.

Ten teams of Waterloo Engineering students pitched their ideas for the project during an assembly at Keatsway Public School in Waterloo, with themes ranging from space to under the sea.

A mechatronics engineering student who wrote code that displayed live election results on Facebook during the 2016 presidential race is Waterloo Engineering's co-op student of the year.

Baraa Hamodi's work reached millions of people worldwide during theBaraa Hamodi, engineering's 2017 co-op student of the year American election held last November.

Two professors at Waterloo Engineering will be the recipients at convocation ceremonies this spring of awards for exceptional teaching.

Sanjeev Bedi, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, and Dan Davison, an electrical and computer engineering professor, will each be honoured with a Distinguished Teaching Award. The prestigious awards come with $1,500 to pursue teaching excellence.

An endoscope for arteries and a wearable oxygen device are the goals of two Waterloo Engineering student teams that have won $50,000 each to turn their fourth-year design projects into business startups.