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The UW Alumni Women in Technology Entrance Scholarship was established by the Elliott family with an initial donation of $10,000 in 2020. Andrew Elliott (BASc ‘85, chemical engineering) and his wife Donna Elliott (BA ’85) met when they were students at Waterloo. Their two daughters, Sarah Elliott (BASc ‘14, systems design engineering) and Carolyn Elliott (BAFM, ‘18), are alumni too.

So far, the scholarship has benefitted six women students including Rachel Wormald. 

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering are harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) and wireless technology to unobtrusively monitor elderly people in their living spaces and provide early detection of emerging health problems.

The new system follows an individual’s activities accurately and continuously as it gathers vital information without the need for a wearable device and alerts medical experts to the need to step in and provide help.

An all-Canadian electric vehicle caused a sensation when it was unveiled at the Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto last month. People raved about the Arrow’s sleek, 3D-printed chassis, or gushed over its solar-panel roof and a steering wheel that can tell if a driver is in a medical emergency.

But what they couldn’t see beneath those cutting-edge wonders was what makes the one-of-a-kind SUV go — something made possible by more than a year of work by engineers at the University of Waterloo.

Waterloo Engineering made a big move in world rankings for 2023 released by global education analyst Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).

The faculty was rated 37^th in the broad category of engineering and technology, up from 49^th spot last year, based on academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations and research impact in a field of more than 1,500 universities.

A new professor at Waterloo Engineering is using biology to produce a green ingredient that is in demand in the cosmetics and personal care industry.

Dr. Christian Euler, a chemical engineering professor, is co-founder of a company that makes the first bio-based glycolic acid from carbon dioxide using a fermentation process. Traditionally,  glycolic acid is made from a byproduct of refining oil.

Five graduates of Waterloo Engineering are featured on an annual list published by Macleans magazine of the top 100 people shaping Canada.

The Maclean’s Power list for 2023 includes the brains behind a local robotics startup, as well as alumni in the fields of architecture, artificial intelligence (AI) and healthcare.

The release of ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) created by OpenAI, has refreshed debates on the ethical creation and use of new technologies.

Dr. Alexander Wong, a systems design engineering professor and Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Medical Imaging at the University of Waterloo, describes the tech as a “very big engineering achievement that needs to mature.”

The next big breakthrough in Canadian technology could be among the engineering student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia running until March 30 at the University of Waterloo.

Final-year engineering students will showcase their range of projects including a performance-enhanced lithium battery for colder climates (Nanotechnology Engineering – March 17) and a proposed design for a green long-haul freight corridor along Highway 401 (Environmental Engineering – March 23).

A contingent of University of Waterloo students representing three design teams had a strong showing at an artificial intelligence (AI) conference in Kingston this week.

Nineteen students from WAT.ai, Watonomous and WATOLink attended the Canadian Undergraduate Conference on AI at Queen’s University along with groups from across the country.

A third-year undergraduate student has been selected as the Co-op Student of the Year for the Faculty of Engineering in 2022.

Jennifer Tsai, who is studying biomedical engineering, has received this award in recognition of her work at the University of British Columbia's Cembrowski Lab, where she investigated the anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN), a region of the brain critical to short-term memory.