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Senior-year Waterloo Engineering students will showcase innovative projects ranging from a hockey bag that dries itself, a diabetic foot monitor to a low-cost prosthetic hand, as part of the annual  Capstone Design symposia, which starts March 20.

Eight research partnerships between Waterloo Engineering professors and industries have been awarded Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Strategic Project Grant funding.

Kitematic, a software startup dedicated to making the Docker development environment accessible to a wider range of developers, has been acquired by Docker Inc. Founded by engineering alumni Jeffrey Morgan and Sean Li (both BASc 2013, Software), and electrical engineering student Michael Chiang, Kitematic sold for an undisclosed amount last week.  

A marker that indicates when sunscreen is to be reapplied and innovative propulsion technology for microsatellites captured first and second place in the innovative design category at the 2015 Canadian Engineering Competition. Over 170 students from across the country attended the competition held  March 5-8 at Memorial University in St. John's. 

Parmit Chilana, a management sciences professor, has been honoured with an Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) CHI conference best paper award. Chilana's winning paper, co-authored by two University of Washington professors, is entitledFrom User-Centered to Adoption-Centered Design: A Case Study of an HCI Research Innovation Becoming a Product.

Perceptiv Labs, a startup founded by Waterloo mechatronics engineering alumni Neil Mathew, Yan Ma and Prasenjit Mukherjee, has launched its first product that offers filmmakers and others an affordable, yet advanced way to capture pans, zooms and fly-by shots with its computer vision technology.

SHIFT is a vision-guided camera motion control platform that enables filmmakers to capture high speed precision tracking shots when filming dynamic subjects, in a way that is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to film by a human operator.

Chris Eliasmith, a Waterloo systems design engineering graduate and professor, has been recognized with this year's John C.

For the first time, Waterloo Engineering was represented at the  Canadian International AutoShow (CIAS) 2015 in Toronto, creating awareness for education pathways into the automotive industry.