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Two electrical engineering alumni have been appointed to important senior leadership positions. At the end of March, Telus Corp named Joe Natale the telecommunications company's next chief executive officer. Natale, who joined Telus in 2003, is a frequent guest speaker on entrepreneurship at the University of Waterloo. He graduated with a Waterloo electrical engineering degree in 1987.

A paper by chemical engineering faculty members Tom Duever and Alex Penlidis and doctoral candidate Niousha Kazemi was chosen 'best presentation of the AIChE session' byJohn R. Richards, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The paper entitled Demystifying the estimation of reactivity ratios for terpolymerization systems was based on a conference presentation at the November 2013 AIChE Conference.

Pearl Sullivan, Waterloo's dean of engineering, announced March 31 that undergraduate students applying for Waterloo Engineering’s Accelerated Master’s program will be eligible for top up funding of $4,500 to supplement funding available through NSERC Student Research Awards.

Waterloo Engineering women were honoured during March's National Engineering Month with a faculty member, two graduate students, and an alumna included as part of #30in30, an initiative that featured 30 outstanding women in engineering over 30 days.

Critical research into health care operations, medical imaging systems, micro-nano devices for cancer detection and smart energy distribution received a boost with four Waterloo Engineering professors receiving new and renewed appointments as Canada Research Chairs on March 28.

The appointments add more than $2 million in funding to the Faculty.

Palette, Petro Predict, SparkGig and TrendRadius, four passionate startups with strong collaborators, solid business models and great pitches walked away with funding of $25,000 each and coveted spots in the Velocity’s business incubation hub. 

Three graduate students from the Faculty of Engineering competed in Waterloo’s second annual university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

From March 26th's Daily Bulletin

Barry Wills, a member of the University of Waterloo's first graduating class of engineers and one of the University's longest-serving faculty members, died March 18 at the age of 74.

Wills, who was a systems design engineering professor, retired in 2006 after 42 years with the Faculty of Engineering.

Rania Al-Hammoud is one of three University of Waterloo students to be awarded the 2014 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.

PiinPoint, a location analytics company, co-founded by Jim Robeson, a graduate of Waterloo Engineering's Master in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program, and Adam Saunders, a current Waterloo Environment student, is the latest company from University of Waterloo incubator VeloCity, to participate in the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley.