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EyeCheck, a startup that brings eye exams to impoverished and remote communities, was the big winner at the fall Velocity Fund Finals (VFF). The team is one of four Waterloo-based startups to win a $25,000 grant from Velocity, an entrepreneurship program at the University of Waterloo. EyeCheck also won an additional $10,000 as the competition’s top hardware startup.

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.

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