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A student design team from Waterloo Engineering recently took first place in its class for the second year in a row at an international rocketry competition in New Mexico.

Waterloo Rocketry, which is comprised primarily of engineering undergraduates, successfully launched its new rocket, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), to an altitude of 13,412 feet to top 14 teams in the hybrid and liquid rocket category.

Ric Soulis, a longtime Waterloo civil and environmental engineering professor, died June 21 after a brief illness.

Born in Toronto in 1949, Ric was raised in Kitchener where he attended Eastwood Collegiate Institute.  He received his BASc in civil engineering in 1972 from the University of Waterloo and then attended Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Waterloo Engineering professors and graduates were inducted into the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) on June 18.

Two incoming Waterloo Engineering students who have already ventured into the business world will start their studies backed by $100,000 each from the Schulich Leader Scholarships program.

David Gu of Richmond Hill and Atif Mahmud of Waterloo, both software engineering students, are among four campus-wide winners of the prestigious entrance scholarships for high school graduates pursuing interests in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Despite having a bright future as an engineering graduate student, Hannah Gautreau became increasingly depressed and unable to cope with many daily situations earlier this year. 

But instead of struggling on her own as she has done in the past, Gautreau knew what to do this time around. She reached out for help.

One of the first things Gautreau did was meet with the on-campus engineering counsellor she’s been seeing on a regular basis since her undergraduate years.    

Mary Robinson, Waterloo’s associate director of first-year engineering, is the first recipient of a new Canadian Engineering Education Association award.

The Ron Britton Engineering Education Vanguard Award recognizes someone early in his/her career who is making significant contributions to engineering education through practice and/or research.

Gregory Lui’s three-minute explanation of how beer and other wastewater can be turned into clean water and also produce electricity captured the People’s Choice Award and second-place finish overall in the Canadian Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

The University of Waterloo will join top universities across the globe on an initiative designed to advance research and innovation in blockchain, cryptography and digital payment systems.

A real-world project got a lot more real – and rewarding – when Waterloo civil engineering students returned to an elementary school for the recent grand opening of a new playground structure.

The engineering students were part of a novel, competitive process to design the $75,000 structure last year after twice meeting with pupils at Keatsway Public School in Waterloo to listen to their ideas and feedback.

Alex Cattran was up for anything when 17 student teams gathered on the weekend to race against each other - and test themselves in the process - in electric cars they had spent months designing and building.

In addition to sharing driving duties for the entry from Guelph Collegiate and Vocational Institute, he worked in the pits furiously pumping up a leaky tire and scrambling to find replacements for a part that kept falling off.