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Three of the top research-intensive and industrially collaborative universities in Ontario – McMaster University, University of Waterloo and Western University – received $35 million in funding over five years from the Government of Ontario today as part of a $50 million project aimed at combining existing strengths in the heart of Ontario’s manufacturing region to create an Advanced Manufacturing Consortium.

A Waterloo Engineering researcher is the recipient of an E.W.R Steacie Memorial Fellowship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for his work in developing new materials that make batteries and fuel cells smaller, lighter and longer-lasting.

Three engineering professors are among those named to the Order of Canada today. 

His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, announced 100 new appointments to the Order of Canada on July 1, 2015. 

The Order has three levels: Companion, Officer and Member.

Keith Hipel, a systems design engineering professor, has been recognized with one of the highest professional engineering distinctions: election to the National Academy of Engineering. 

Amir Khajepour's Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Mechatronic Vehicle Systems has been renewed. 

Taylor Porter, a Waterloo civil engineering master's candidate, won second place in the 2015 International Student Competition on Cold-formed Steel Design.

Waterloo Engineering teams won a number of the top awards at the Ontario Engineering Competition hosted on campus from January 29 to 31. The 37th annual competition attracted about 300 competitors from 16 Ontario universities and colleges as well as judges, sponsors and guests.

Second year Waterloo mechatronics engineering students Colin Cooke, Michael Jonas, Jackson Fishe and Mitchell Catoen took first prize in the Junior Design contest.

Recipients of the 2015 Waterloo Engineering Faculty and Staff awards were recognized for outstanding contributions to education and research at an awards dinner held January 28.   

Talal Alharbi, an electrical engineering doctoral candidate, and his supervisor Kankar Bhattacharya, an electrical and computer engineering professor, were honoured with a Best Conference Paper Award at the 2015 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference held last October in London, ON. The paper they co-authored is entitled Optimal Energy Management and Smart Charging of PEVs in Isolated Microgrids.