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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau brought equal amounts of enthusiasm and inspiration Friday as he helped kick off Hack the North with a brief but rousing speech to a packed house at Hagey Hall.

Trudeau admitted he once “sort of dropped out” of an engineering program, but said he envied about 1,000 students from top universities in 22 countries who gathered in Waterloo for the weekend hackathon.

Endless possibilities on the open road make it extremely challenging to build and train an artificial brain that is nimble and sophisticated enough to safely deal with everything it encounters.

The new executive director of the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology has been elected as a foreign fellow of a prestigious engineering body in India.

Sushanta Mitra, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor at Waterloo, formally begins his fellowship in the Indian National Academy of Engineering in November.

Frank Gu, a Waterloo chemical engineering professor, is part of the 2017 cohort of the Royal Society of Canada's (RSC) prestigious College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed computer software to detect when drivers are dangerously distracted by texting or other physical activities while they are behind the wheel.

Combining cameras and artificial intelligence, the system could be used to improve safety by alerting drivers to pay attention or trigger even more decisive action as advanced self-driving features are added to vehicles.

More than 63 researchers at Waterloo Engineering are receiving funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to help them continue making discoveries that improve the quality of life of Canadians.

Over $8.6 million for Waterloo Engineering research was announced by NSERC today at the University of Victoria.

A medical startup founded by three Waterloo Engineering researchers has been named one of the 20 most innovative technology companies for 2017 by the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX).

Elucid Labs, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology in a small imaging device for the early detection of skin cancer, grew out of research by Farnoud Kazemzadeh for his PhD at Waterloo.

Drinking water can be tested for E. coli bacteria in three hours or less with simple, inexpensive paper strips developed by researchers at Waterloo Engineering.

Sushanta Mitra, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, is working with colleagues at startup Glacierclean Technologies Inc. to refine the invention and hopes to have a product costing just 50 cents a test on the market within nine months.

A Capstone Design invention created to produce clean drinking water in developing countries and a patch that delivers allergy medication to children co-developed by an engineering student are among the top winners in this year’s Canadian James Dyson Awards competition.

The two Waterloo projects are among the four runners-up of the competition’s national round, in which a team from the University of Toronto took first place.   

Weihua Zhuang of Waterloo's electrical and computer engineering department is a new fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada's (RSC) Academy of Science.