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Two teams from Waterloo Engineering finished in the top three in their categories at the recent Canadian Engineering Competition.

Hosted by the University of Waterloo, the event featured 150 engineering students representing 15 universities from across the country. The participants had qualified to move on at four regional events.

Waterloo Engineering researchers have found an inexpensive way for cities to ease congestion and improve safety by tweaking the timing of traffic lights during snowstorms.

After collecting data and running sophisticated computer simulations, the researchers determined that adjusting signals at intersections to take poor road conditions into account could reduce delays by up to 20 per cent.

Waterloo is hosting 150 of the brightest, most inventive engineering students from across Canada this weekend as they square off in a national contest.

The annual Canadian Engineering Competition, taking place Saturday and Sunday in Engineering 7, will feature undergraduate teams from 15 universities that qualified at four regional events.

Started in 1985, the event involves eight competitions in areas including consulting, presentation, debate and design.

Funding was formally announced this week for a four-year, $1.9-million project to develop low-cost, durable hydrogen fuel cells to power buses and cars.

The project – a collaboration involving academia, industry and government – is led by Waterloo Engineering professor Xianguo Li, a world-class researcher in the field for two decades.

John Yeow, a systems design engineering professor, was recently named a fellow of Engineers Canada.  

The prestigious fellowship honours individuals who have given noteworthy service to the engineering profession through their work with either Engineers Canada or its provincial and territorial engineering regulators.

Waterloo Engineering notched three top-100 results in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) worldwide university subject rankings released today for 2019.

Carl Haas, chair of Waterloo’s civil and environmental engineering department, is the recipient of the American Society of Civil Engineers'  2019 Computing in Civil Engineering Award.

A collaboration between Waterloo Engineering researchers and the national wheelchair curling team has produced a new piece of equipment that could improve the sport for players the world over.

Now in its seventh iteration, the 3D-printed device screws onto the end of a wheelchair curling stick to give players better control by enabling them to pull rocks back before going forward to throw them.

A third-year student at the School of Architecture will have her work showcased at an upcoming trade show in Toronto after taking first place in a province-wide design contest.

Padmini  (Penny) Unni won $1,500 and other prizes in a competition sponsored by Formica Canada Inc., which makes commercial and residential surfacing products, to design its booth for the Architect@Work show April 3 and 4.

Waterloo Engineering faculty members have become new fellows of IEEE and the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Kerstin Dautenhahn, a cross-appointed professor of electrical and computer engineering and systems design engineering, was named an IEEE fellow for her contributions to social robotics and human-robot interaction.