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Peter Thompson has been selected as the winner of the 2014 CSCE Hydrotechnical Engineering Award for the best masters’ thesis at a Canadian University related to water resource engineering and water management.  The award, sponsored by Golder Associates Ltd., is in recognition of Thompson's civil engineering thesis work entitled: Event Based Characterization of Hydrologic Change in Urbanizing Southern On

A team of University of Waterloo student researchers has been selected as one of 16 North American teams in the EcoCAR 3 Advanced Vehicle Technologies Competition launched April 24 by the U.S. Department of Energy and General Motors.

Mahsa Shayan, a civil engineering doctoral candidate, was presented with the Katherine Hadley Memorial Scholarship by the Real Property Institute of Canada on April 16 at the Federal Contaminated Sites National Workshop in Ottawa. The scholarship in environmental studies is given to a university graduate-level student undertaking research in environmental issues related to contaminated sites.

John Baker founded D2L in 1999, at the age of twenty-two, while attending the University of Waterloo as a systems design engineering student. Today the approximately 750 employee company is one of the leaders in the burgeoning e-learning market.  The company also has the distinction of having received the largest investment ever for a Canadian software company. 

From Waterloo Stories

Every business, every idea and every product being created right now, is being “born global.”

If you attended the 2013 Teaching and Learning Conference, you may recall noticing an Engineering flavour. The 2014 Teaching and Learning Conference is set to once again offer attendees a good selection of general and Engineering-specific teaching development topics.

From April 15 Daily Bulletin

Tom Duever, a chemical engineering professor and former department chair, has been named dean of Ryerson University's Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science. His five-year appointment begins August 1, 2014. He will also become a tenured professor in Ryerson's chemical engineering department.

Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering, is pleased to announce the appointment of Ila Berman to the position of O’Donovan Director of the University of Waterloo's School of Architecture.

Dean Pearl Sullivan awarded nine student design teams over $30,000 in a first round of funding from the Engineer of the Future Trust, a pool of discretionary micro-seed funding for budding entrepreneurs at Waterloo Engineering.

Local Girl Guide units visited the University of Waterloo and became engineers for a day.