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Student Innovation on Display at the 6th Annual Mechatronics Capstone Design Symposium
The Mechatronics Design Symposium is one of ten Capstone Design symposiums presented by Waterloo Engineering this month.
Graduate student awarded prestigious Vale scholarship
Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate and engineering outreach volunteer, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Master's Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious scholarship of $10,000 is awarded to one woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.
ECE researchers receive best transaction paper award
Electrical and Computer Engineering Researchers Chitral Angammana and Shesha Jayaram have been honoured with the IEEE James R. Melcher Prize Paper Award 2013, for the technical excellence displayed in their work entitled Investigation of the Optimum Electric Field for a Stable Electrospinning Process.
Professors win Google Research Awards
Lin Tan and Wojciech Golab of electrical and computer engineering have been honoured with Google Research Awards. Tan's software engineering project and Golab's systems project were two of the 115 projects to be funded out of the 691 proposals received from researchers working in 46 countries. Their awards each include tuition for a graduate student and the the opportunity to work directly with Google researchers and engineers. This is the second time Tan has won a Google award -- she also received one in 2010.
Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design
The new Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design will be awarded this year to upper year engineering projects.
Fifteen outstanding design projects, shortlisted from all engineering departments during the 2014 Capstone Design Symposia, will be chosen to compete for funding, based on the degree of project innovation and the merit of their business model. The finalists will be announced on March 28.
Announcing the 90sC! A new award for Capstone Design
Capstone challenges you to push your boundaries.
Prestigious design magazine features School of Architecture
Waterloo's School of Architecture is profiled in the February issue of DOMUS, one of the leading design magazines in the world. Published in Milan, the magazine has worldwide distribution.
Former civil engineering grad student honoured for thesis
Mechatronics grad honoured by local Chamber of Commerce
Mike McCauley, co-founder of Buffer Box, has been named the Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the Greater Kitchener Waterloo Chamber of Commerce. He was honoured at the chamber's Business Excellence Awards dinner held February 20 in Kitchener.