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A researcher at Waterloo Engineering has won $265,000 in federal backing to develop a palm-sized device capable of detecting COVID-19 infection within 30 minutes.

Carolyn Ren, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, will lead the one-year project by a team that includes professors Emmanuel Ho of the School of Pharmacy at Waterloo and Keith Fowke of the University of Manitoba.

Work by a Waterloo Engineering professor on the use of ultraviolet light to help disinfect and reuse personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic is advancing to testing.

Bill Anderson, a professor of chemical engineering, began working online with researchers in New Zealand to develop a proposed two-stage system to kill, or deactivate, the virus on used PPE.

A lecturer at Waterloo Engineering is featured in an international video lecture series created by a United Nations organization dedicated to building inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities and communities.

Nadine Ibrahim, who holds the Turkstra Chair in Urban Engineering at Waterloo, kicks off the sixth season of Global Urban Lectures presented by UN-Habitat as the first of 10 lecturers.

Ralph Haas, professor emeritus and a former chair of civil and environmental engineering, died last week at the age of 87.

His ground-breaking concepts and technologies resulted in better-performing road networks and recognition as 'the father of pavement asset management' throughout the engineering world. 

From experience holding elected student office to volunteer roles in the community, Mariko Shimoda leaves with a lot more than an undergraduate degree as she officially graduates from Waterloo Engineering this week.

The mechanical engineering student found time during her academic career to rack up an impressive list of extracurricular accomplishments and land a full-time job at her last co-op employer.

A nanotechnology engineering doctoral student is a recipient of this year’s prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Asif Abdullah Khan was awarded the scholarship for his research that focuses on developing next-generation sustainable power sources for designing self-powered micro/nanosystems for aerospace applications.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been recognized as one of the top young engineers in manufacturing in Canada and the United States.

Mihaela Vlasea was honoured by SME, an association for the advancement of manufacturing professionals, academia and communities, with one of 15 awards for high achievers in the field.

A biotechnology company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus has been awarded almost $300,000 in government funding to develop a portable diagnostic test for COVID-19.

Nicoya, a Kitchener-based provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, grew out of a Capstone Design project by nanotechnology engineering student Ryan Denomme (BASc ’10, MASc ’12).

The funding is part of a challenge issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the National Research Council of Canada.

A master's student at Waterloo Engineering won a best paper award at a recent international conference on biomedical optics.

Saad Abbasi works in the PhotoMedicine Labs at Waterloo and is supervised by Parsin Haji Reza, a professor of systems design engineering.

His work on a method to visualize microscopic tissue structure without contact or staining prior to examination was recognized as the best student paper at the 2020 Optical Society of America Biophotonics Congress.

Two graduates of Waterloo Engineering are developing an at-home testing kit for COVID-19 after answering a design challenge by the federal government.

Kamyar Ghofrani and James MacLean, who graduated two years apart from the nanotechnology engineering program, teamed up with Monica Hoang, a doctoral pharmacy student at Waterloo, at startup company Serapsis Labs.

“We brainstormed, came up with a few different ideas - some better than others - and within a week we had a design," Ghofrani said.