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Graduate students at Waterloo Engineering took the top two awards in a competition at the Velocity startup incubator to support research with commercial potential.

Jason Deglint, a PhD candidate in systems design engineering, collected $20,000 to back Blue Lion Labs, a startup that analyzes algae in water samples using a custom microscope and artificial intelligence.

The Ontario Advanced Manufacturing Consortium (AMC), a joint partnership between McMaster University, University of Waterloo, and Western University, is helping to accelerate industry adoption of advanced manufacturing technologies, which will create jobs and strengthen the province’s reputation as a leading manufacturing region.

Since AMC was launched in April 2017, nearly 100 companies have benefited from the advanced manufacturing experts and state-of-the-art facilities at Waterloo. 

Waterloo Engineering student teams will have 90 seconds to win over judges as they pitch their inventive ideas April 2 to compete for $60,000 in funding.

Two Capstone Design teams earned a significant financial boost as winners of this year’s Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund competition created to help transform projects into successful startups post-graduation.  

Waterloo Engineering entrepreneurs made another strong showing today at the main event of the Velocity Fund Finals for winter 2019, taking three of the four $50,000 investments that were on the line.

Investment-ready startups SiteVue, ClearVoxel and Glove Systems had three minutes to distinguish themselves in a field of nine competitors in the pitch event at the Tannery Event Centre in downtown Kitchener.

Paul Fieguth, chair of systems design engineering, is being recognized with a Distinguished Teacher Award for his strong support of students both inside and outside the classroom.

Early stage startup companies with ties to Waterloo Engineering took three of four $5,000 prizes up for grabs today at the first half of the winter edition of the Velocity Fund Finals.

Forsa, Pulse Home and TagBull were among 10 student teams – whittled down from an initial field of 40 - to make three-minute product pitches for a panel of judges and an audience of onlookers at the Student Life Centre.

A doctoral candidate in the department of mechanical and mechatronics engineering has been honoured with an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.

Research led by a Waterloo Engineering professor has demonstrated the enormous potential of quantum-enhanced noise radar to improve radar technology.

Christopher Wilson is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and principal investigator of the Engineered Quantum Systems Lab at the Institute for Quantum Computing.

“We are applying technology developed for quantum computing to immediate, practical situations,” he said in a media release.

Nathan Duarte was honoured today as Waterloo Engineering’s top co-op student, as well as one of the country’s 2018 Co-op Students of the Year as selected by Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning (CEWIL) Canada.

The third-year biomedical engineering student helped develop a novel bio-ink that can be used to decrease the amount of time it takes to 3D-print kidney tissues while he was on a co-op term at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.