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An industry partner of Waterloo Engineering in the fields of crypto currency and blockchain technology is opening a new office in Toronto – its first in Canada – to support growth in North America and the rest of the world.

Ripple, a leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions, has strong ties to Waterloo through the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), a relationship formed in 2018 to support research in several key areas while providing opportunities for students to acquire valuable technical skills.

Gordon Stubley is the 2022 recipient of a lifetime service award from the leading engineering and design education organization in Canada.

Stubley, a retired mechanical engineering professor, Waterloo Engineering alumnus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, becomes the fifth engineering educator honoured with a Lifetime Service Award from the Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA).

A student at Waterloo Engineering has won a $10,000 scholarship through a Hydro One program designed to increase educational and employment opportunities for young Indigenous people.

Callum Perrault, an electrical engineering undergraduate and a member of the Métis Nation of Ontario, is one of 20 winners of 2022 Leonard S. (Tony) Mandamin Scholarships, which also offer the chance to do a paid work term at Hydro One.

A grassroots fundraising and awareness initiative is underway on campus to support humanitarian relief efforts in Ukraine.

Led by faculty, staff and student volunteers, University for Ukraine (U4U) aims to bring together the University of Waterloo community to show solidarity and provide coordinated relief to war victims.

The reception area of a high-rise office in downtown Toronto now features a one-of-a-kind privacy wall thanks to a research team from the Waterloo School of Architecture.

Comprised of 175 unique, interlocking bricks made of clay, the Hive project combined an ancient building material with modern digital design and 3D printing technologies.

“This approach embraces the spirit of traditional ceramic craft with robotic precision, offering new avenues for material expression and geometric complexity within this field,” team members wrote in a project description.

Passionate about sharing his Indigenous background, an adjunct architecture professor named a new course after the ceremony his ancestors have used for thousands of years to welcome visitors to their homeland. 

This semester, William Woodworth, also known as Elder Bill, started teaching At the Woods Edge, a course focused on the relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers from the 16th century to today, and how those associations have affected both engineering and architecture.

After being told by a high school teacher that she wasn’t smart enough to pursue a post-secondary engineering education, Amy Tai has proven him wrong. In a big way.

With a cumulative average of over 98 per cent, the newly minted engineering graduate was the top student in her management engineering program for every term and has already started a master’s degree at Waterloo.

Four professors at the Waterloo School of Architecture are involved in an unprecedented research partnership to increase the equity, social value and sustainability of the built environment.

Three graduating students at Waterloo Engineering are out to protect the environment and help farmers increase profits with technology to optimize the use of pesticides on crops.

Jack Paduchowski, Brandon Chan and Kurtis Eisler, classmates in the mechatronics engineering program, launched Maesos Technologies in 2020 to collect predictive weather and fungal spore data for wine grape farmers in the Niagara Region with custom sensors.

Cooks throughout Asia put moist bamboo chopsticks into hot oil in a frying pan, watching the bubbles that form and listening to the sizzling sound they make as they burst to gauge the perfect cooking temperature.

Now, an international team of researchers, including a professor from Waterloo Engineering, has used the technique as inspiration to learn about the complex physics behind the seemingly simple trick.