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The Trust in Research Undertaken in Science and Technology scholarly network (TRuST), was launched to address the declining levels of trust in science and academic institutions.  

Dr. Mary Wells, dean of Waterloo Engineering and founding member of TRuST, speaks to the importance of strengthening trust in science and technology to positively advance society. 

The growing field of hockey analytics currently relies on the manual analysis of video footage from games. But the speed of hockey makes manually tracking and analyzing each player during a game very difficult and prone to human error.

Dr. David Clausi and Dr. John Zelek, both professors in the Department of Systems Design Engineering, with research assistant professor Yuhao Chen and a team of graduate students, have developed an AI tool that uses deep learning techniques to automate and improve player tracking analysis.

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is “inspire inclusion.” Dr. Vivek Goel, president of the University of Waterloo, asked a few of the many inspiring female leaders at Waterloo to share the significance of mentorship within their personal and academic success.

Dr. Mary Wells, dean of Waterloo Engineering, recalls the mentors who inspired her and pushed her to succeed. 

This International Women's Day, Waterloo Engineering celebrates Dr. Nadine Ibrahim’s commitment to preparing all her students for a complex world.   

Ibrahim, a professor in the University of Waterloo’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, inspires all her students to think about how the application of their knowledge could create solutions that improve and sustain our humanity and prosperity.    

Waterloo Engineering alum CT Murphy (BASc ’23, nanotechnology engineering) recently launched CELLECT to improve women’s access to cervical cancer and HPV screening.

CELLECT's innovative technology uses nanomaterials in menstrual products to diagnose HPV and cervical cancer using menstrual blood, potentially eliminating the need for Pap smears.

Waterloo Engineering graduating students were treated to an inspirational talk on success inside and outside the classroom. They received advice on next steps as they approach graduation by Dr. Jenny Howcroft, a continuing lecturer in the Department of Systems Design Engineering and recipient of the inaugural Boyce Family Teaching Award.

Howcroft stressed the importance of lifelong learning and continually building a wide range of skills, not just the technical skills traditionally associated with engineering. She highlighted the need for engineers to cultivate soft skills alongside their technical prowess to set themselves apart and build on the base of technical skills they learn at Waterloo. In particular, she emphasized the importance of emotional intelligence skills like empathy, building relationships with stakeholders both within and outside of engineering, and seriously considering their own social responsibility in the work they will do in their future careers.

University of Waterloo engineers have invented a powerful antenna small enough to fit in a ring and capable of transmitting critical medical data to healthcare workers and individual patients.

Lead researcher Dr. Omar Ramahi, a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, worked with Rania Rabhi, a visiting scholar from Tunisia, to build an antenna that is small enough to be worn like a piece of jewelry and powerful enough to safely send medical-related information to smartphones or a health clinic over long distances through airwaves. 

Toronto-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup Ideogram has raised $80 million in Series A funding to accelerate the company’s growth in generative AI.

Waterloo Engineering alum William Chan (BASc ’11, computer engineering) co-founded Ideogram in 2022 “to help people become more creative”. The company officially launched just six months ago with $22.3 million in seed funding.