Exceptional students and alumni were honoured at the 2014 Waterloo Engineering Awards Dinner held November 25.
Raafat Mansour, an electrical and computer engineering professor, was honoured with an engineering medal for research and development by the 
Ontario Society of Professional Engineers at its annual awards gala held November 22.
Salam Gabran, a post-doctoral fellow with the Centre for Integrated RF Engineering, has been chosen to participate in the Ontario Brain Institute's Entrepreneurs program.
The University's iGEM team won the best model award at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Giant Jamboree competition for its synthetic bacterium that has the potential to prevent the spread of infections in hospitals.
Faizul Mohee, a civil engineering doctoral candidate, has been awarded the 2014 Canadian Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (CPCI) Scholarship.
Each year, the $1,500 scholarship is awarded to just one graduate student in the province for graduate or post graduate studies in the field of precast prestressed concrete.
The 2014 IBM Conference Best Technology Showcase Award was recently awarded to three electrical and computer engineers for their work entitled A Dynamic Markov Game for Decision Making in Self-Protecting Software.
When it comes to teaching, a small change can make a big difference.
2014 Norman Edmund Inspiration Award for his research on handheld imaging to test blood glucose levels.The international award is from Edmund Optics.
A team of second year chemical engineering students brought home top prize in this year's National Mining Competition hosted by the University of Saskatchewan from October 30 to November 2.