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It has been a long but rewarding journey since Sebastian Fischmeister first hit on the concept of using involuntary emissions such as power consumption as a window into the workings of computer systems.

Early work on the idea as a means of debugging programs without shutting them down earned the electrical and computer engineering professor a best paper award soon after he came to the University of Waterloo.

Seven professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded a total of almost $1.1 million in federal funding this week through a program designed to help attract and retain top researchers.

The backing from the John R. Evans Leaders Fund, a program of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, is earmarked for infrastructure to ensure labs are equipped for world-class research and technology development.

The recipients at Waterloo Engineering are:

A consortium co-founded by the University of Waterloo will receive up to $80 million in federal funding to further research and development, increase commercialization opportunities and develop talent in the field of cybersecurity.

Waterloo is one of five founding universities of the National Cybersecurity Consortium, which was named by the Canadian government today to lead the Cyber Security Innovation Network.

The lead research body at Waterloo, the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute, features more than 10 engineering professors.

A new study led by a Waterloo Engineering professor provides a roadmap to overcome the challenges associated with nitrogen that persists in ecosystems from excess fertilizer use in agriculture.

Nandita Basu, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and earth and environmental sciences, and other researchers make six recommendations to improve water quality by addressing nitrogen pollution.

A doctoral alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has won an international award to continue her research on crop stress in her native Jordan.

Heba Alzaben, who earned a PhD in mechanical engineering in 2020, received the equivalent of about $15,000 through the L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Young Talents Program in a region that includes Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and the Syrian Arab Republic.

A company headed by a graduate of Waterloo Engineering will also have its moment in the spotlight when the Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals meet Sunday in Super Bowl LVI.

Ross Video is providing the state-of-the-art technology to power a gigantic, 360-degree screen hovering over the playing field in the new, $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded $100,000 for research on predictive tools to improve outcomes in invasive spine surgery.

Stewart McLachlin, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, received the one-year grant through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), a federal funding agency.

Two students from Waterloo Engineering took home the top prize from a recent international real estate case competition hosted by Ryerson University in Toronto.

Nathan Lee, a third-year civil engineering student, and Samantha Kerry, a third-year architectural engineering student, teamed up two students from other University of Waterloo faculties at the Expand Your Empire conference.

Waterloo students had a strong showing at this year’s remote Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) with 6 teams moving on to next month's national contest.

Hosted by the University of Toronto, undergraduate engineering students won nine of the top prizes awarded. The first and second-place teams in their categories will compete in the Canadian Engineering Competition to be held online by the University of New Brunswick March 11 to 13.   

Perseverance is paying off for two Waterloo Engineering graduates who co-founded an ambitious medical hardware company.

Five years after launching Vena Medical to commercialize their fourth-year design project, Michael Phillips and Phil Cooper announced their first government approval this week for a device to remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients.