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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.

Mary Wells, Waterloo Engineering's associate dean of outreach, takes a look at the many reasons women are under-represented in “tech-sector” engineering disciplines in a TechCrunch article published March 15 entitled Engineers bridge the divide between technology and society.

By Victoria Van Cappellen

Faculty of Science

Research conducted by University of Waterloo researchers shows nitrogen is accumulating in soil - creating health risks like “blue baby syndrome” and environmental dead zones in rivers and oceans.

​Nitrogen fertilizer applied to farmers’ fields has been contaminating rivers and lakes and leaching into drinking water wells for more than 80 years. Now, a new study shows that fertilizer applied today will continue to pollute water for decades because it’s building up in the soil.

Jordan Grant is Waterloo Engineering's co-op student of the year.

The University of Waterloo honoured the management engineering student and five others at a ceremony on March 15 with the University’s top award for students in a co-op program for their contributions to co-operative education and their community.

The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.