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Three student teams featuring members from Waterloo Engineering took home $5,000 each from the recent Concept $5k pitch competition for fall 2021.

MicroBuild Masonry, Learnlist and Hydro House were among eight finalists competing for four prizes at the virtual event, which is staged three times a year.

MicroBuild (Adrian Simone, third-year civil engineering) is developing a sustainable, biological method to manufacture masonry units.

A professor at the School of Architecture at Waterloo is racking up awards as a member of the design team for an innovative project in China.

David Correa, a design partner at architecture studio LLLab, worked with the team on a canopy and a group of pod-like pavilions mainly made of woven bamboo.

Shoukry Saleh, a retired faculty member who helped build a Waterloo Engineering department, died on August 9 at the age of 91.

In 1968, he was one of four professors recruited by Archibald Sherburne, then dean of Waterloo Engineering, to establish the Faculty’s management sciences department.

Instrumental to its launch the following year, Saleh served as department chair from September 1974 to August 1978.

Enormous challenges presented by COVID-19 have been no match for many Waterloo Engineering students, professors and alumni who started or advanced their research during the pandemic.

For most, restrictions made them even more determined to tackle problems head-on and come up with innovative and life-enhancing solutions, some of which address coronavirus-related medical issues. 

A company with strong ties to Waterloo Engineering was recently recognized by an organization dedicated to bringing technology communities together.

DarwinAI, which has developed technology to explain how and why artificial intelligence makes decisions, was named Best Tech Startup at the virtual North American Timmy Awards.

It was one of six awards handed out by Tech in Motion, which was created by IT staffing firm Motion Recruitment, to honour top technology employers.

Two students at Waterloo Engineering took the top prize in a national contest for social entrepreneurs.

Peter Cornelisse and Lucas Godkin, both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, received $25,000 as the winners of the NU National Student Award for Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship.

Cornelisse and Godkin are developing an off-grid, renewable energy generation and storage system as an affordable alternative to fossil fuel generators.

A leading biotechnologist who earned his engineering degree at Waterloo is one of this year’s Top 40 Under 40 for the country.

Vikramaditya G. Yadav (BASc '07, chemical engineering) is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he directs its Master of Engineering Leadership program in sustainable process engineering.

Waterloo Engineering moved into the top 50 worldwide - and took the number one spot in Canada - in rankings that were recently released for 2022 by digital media company U.S. News and World Report.

In an evaluation of more than 2,000 universities based on research performance and reputation, Waterloo was rated the 49^th best engineering school in the world, up eight spots from last year, and first overall in the country.

Keith Hipel, a systems design engineering professor, has been appointed a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The Chinese Academy of Sciences provides advisory and appraisal services on issues stemming from the national economy, social development, and science and technology progress. It is the world's largest research organization with approximately 60,000 researchers working in 114 institutes.

Three engineering graduate candidates won top honours in the inaugural Waterloo.AI GRADflix Competition hosted by Waterloo's Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Zaid Al-Sabbag took first place with Ramashish Gaurav and Ali Nasr capturing second and third places, respectively.