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A professor at Waterloo Engineering has released a book to help international students improve their formal academic writing in English.

Zhongchao Tan, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, took advantage of time at home during the coronavirus pandemic and drew on his personal experiences as a Chinese-Canadian to write the guide for international engineering students, as well as university faculty members who supervise them.

As economies begin to reopen, Waterloo Engineering researchers are developing technology that will notify users and public health when individuals come in close contact with someone confirmed or suspected to have COVID-19.

Patricia Nieva and William Melek, both Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics engineering professors, and their students are developing contact tracing software for an app called TraceSCAN.

A group of Waterloo Engineering students have contributed to the COVID-19 cause by helping to develop an online dashboard to track and synthesize the results of antibody studies from around the world.

The five students - Nathan Duarte, Jordan Van Wyk, Austin Atmaja, Simona Rocco and Abel Joseph - teamed up with Canadians at universities in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, plus a federal task force of experts, to pull off the ambitious project.

Waterloo Engineering lecturer Nadine Ibrahim posed a compelling question in a recent opinion piece: can we use lessons learned during the COVID-19 crisis to also set our resolve to tackle climate change?

Ibrahim, who holds the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering, argues that the structural and behavioural changes forced by the global pandemic could pave the way towards a truly sustainable - and still prosperous - way of life.

A glowing editorial published today in The Waterloo Region Record highlights the far-reaching mark made by Douglas Wright, the founding dean of Waterloo Engineering.

Wright, who died last week at the age of 92, went on to serve as the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo as it grew into a world-class institution of higher learning and research.

The editorial argues Waterloo Region would be a far different, far poorer place, had it not been for Wright's vision and determination to help bring academia and industry together.

Tarek Hegazi, a civil and environmental engineering professor, has won an award from the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) for a paper published in the CSCE journal.

Hegazi is receiving this year's CSCE Stephen G. Revay Award for his work entitled Multi-dimensional optimization model for schedule fast-tracking without over-stressing construction workers.

Douglas Wright, the founding dean of Waterloo Engineering and the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo, has died at the age of 92.

Wright, who played a major role in the development of both the Faculty and the University, passed away at home Thursday while surrounded by his family.

Engineering professor Zhou Wang will lead a new research partnership between the University of Waterloo and entertainment technology company TiVo.

The partnership is scheduled to begin with a project involving the investigation of methods to enhance user quality-of-experience for 360-degree omnidirectional video on head-mounted devices.

Three students at Waterloo Engineering were recently recognized for finding and analyzing important problems affecting their employers during co-op work terms.

Charvi Choudhary, Samuel Muller and Sharan Dev Shankar were among five campus-wide 2019 Co-op Problem Award recipients honoured by The Problem Lab, a program that fosters disruptive innovation.

Three projects led by Waterloo Engineering professors have each won $250,000 in funding through a federal competition designed to bring disciplines together to explore new research directions.

Parsin Haji Reza, Sushanta Mitra and Valerie Ward all made successful bids to the New Frontiers in Research Fund through the 2019 Exploration program to promote risk-taking and innovation.

They were among eight successful applications campus-wide at the University of Waterloo. Across the country, $46.3 million was awarded over two years to support 186 research projects.