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A student design team at the University of Waterloo recently earned a gold medal at an international competition involving synthetic biology.

REMINE was one of almost 250 teams from around the world competing at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) contest, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis.

It wasn’t until the December 6 killing of 14 women at École Polytechnique de Montréal that Mary Wells realized the significance of her gender in the profession.

“I consciously remember thinking that I was also a woman in engineering and could have easily been one of those women in the room,” says Wells, dean of Waterloo Engineering. “I was completely shocked and horrified by what had happened and it is etched in my mind forever.”

Pearl Sullivan, Waterloo's former dean of engineering and the first woman to hold the position, died on November 28 after a 12-year battle with cancer.

Passionate about supporting students, she was dedicated to ensuring they had a full understanding of engineering principles as well as the tools and facilities they needed to succeed.   

It is with great sadness that we share the news of Professor Igor Ivković's death on November 27. 

A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering was recently recognized for his work at a virtual conference for experts in the blockchain field.

Behkish Nassirzadeh, who is doing a master’s degree in computer engineering under the supervision of Professor Vijay Ganesh, won the award for innovation at the UBRI (University Blockchain Research Initiative) Connect 2020 event hosted by technology company Ripple.

Five former nanotechnology engineering students at the University of Waterloo have come a long way since they came together over a shared interest in optics and frustration with the poor quality of their smartphone photographs.

Just over a year after they teamed up, their startup technology company, Scope Photonics, earned international attention with the announcement today that it is a worldwide runner-up for the 2020 James Dyson Award for student inventors.

Companies founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni took the top two spots in an annual list of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada.

Heading the Technology Fast 50 list, compiled by professional services firm Deloitte, is Kitchener-based Intellijoint Surgical, which develops smart tools to enhance the accuracy of orthopedic surgery, increase hospital efficiencies and improve the lives of patients.

One of the surest signs that Sam Dugan, 22, is a born entrepreneur might be this: he got the brainwave for his latest business venture, completely out of the blue, when he was on a date.

Two years later, while juggling studies as a third-year mechatronics engineering student at the University of Waterloo, he has turned that idea into a startup technology company to reduce injuries at ski resorts.

A research team led by a Waterloo Engineering professor has developed technology to track and measure environmental degradation in rivers.

Bruce MacVicar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is using synthetic stone tracers to monitor how sediment is transported in rivers during floods.

The movement of sediment has an important impact on the health of rivers and infrastructure such as bridges and pipelines.

A doctoral student at Waterloo Engineering took a top-five spot this week in a global competition organized by the world’s largest engineering design magazine.

Ala Eldin Omer earned an honorable mention in the medical category of the 2020 Create the Future contest staged by Tech Briefs.