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A team of Waterloo Engineering students has been selected as a finalist in the IEEE AP-S 2016 student competition out of 50 international participating teams.

The Waterloo team is the only one from North America among the six competing for the best design of an energy harvesting system. The students' video describes an energy harvester for a smart contact lens that monitors the glucose level of a user.

The University of Waterloo is one of three Canadian universities to join a year-long research project to teach IBM’s Watson cognitive computing platform how to comb through unstructured data to improve cyber security.

A research partnership between C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., and the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems (CIARS) in 4×4 sub-array antenna module technology should have a significant impact on the global satellite antenna business. This transformative concept will significantly reduce the cost and complexity of phased array systems and expand the phased array market for flat panel mobile antennas.

Baylis Medical is donating $300,000 to support future innovations by University of Waterloo systems design and biomedical engineering students. The funding will be used for the Baylis Medical Student Garage to be located in University of Waterloo’s Engineering 7 building currently under construction.

Three companies launched by Waterloo Engineering students were the winners of the California Pitch Alumni Event held April 14 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

Lumotune, Varden Labs and Voltera each won $5,000 at the event attended by hundreds of University of Waterloo alumni, students, and guests to provide insight into how Waterloo brings innovative and world-changing ideas to the global marketplace.

Waterloo Engineering faculty members Lan Wei and Aiping Yu were two of four researchers campus-wide who received funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) John R. Evans Leaders Fund April 15.

Three electrical and computer engineering faculty members are recipients of the Engineering Society's Teaching Award.

The winner of the award is Derek Wright, a lecturer in the ECE department who focuses on bringing hands-on learning to the classroom, in addition to industry exposure and independent decision making.

A robot designed to safely defuse landmines without an explosion was one of six major winners at the Norman Esch Capstone Design Awards competition for senior Waterloo Engineering students held March 30.

A systems design engineering professor and team of graduate students are the recipients of two Magna Cum Laude awards presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Imaging Network of Ontario held in Toronto at the end of March.

Bob McKillop of civil and environmental engineering and Mark Pritzker of chemical engineering are two of four faculty members campus-wide to be recognized with the 2016 University of Waterloo Distinguished Teaching Award.