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A groundwater festival for children, an environmental group and an AIDS-ravaged country in Africa are all benefiting from a University of Waterloo student team with a mission to do good.

A chapter of Blueprint, which began at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012, was co-founded by Waterloo Engineering student Luisa San Martin a year ago to create technology such as websites and mobile applications for non-profit organizations.

Two incoming Waterloo Engineering students are among four campus-wide winners of prestigious Schulich Leader Scholarships for high school graduates pursuing studies in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Mickey Dang of Mississauga in systems design engineering and Emma Lozhkin of Toronto in computer engineering will each receive $100,000 towards their educations. Across the country, there were more than 1,300 nominees for a total of 50 scholarships.

Machine-learning software developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers could soon enable earlier detection of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

The new artificial intelligence tool, a project that involved collaboration with the Sunnybrook Research Institute in Toronto, adds objective data to the visual assessments of skin lesions now done by dermatologists.

Oscar Nespoli struggles to sum it up in a word or two, but he’s sure there is a lot more to good engineering design than knowing hard facts and following prescribed steps.

And regardless of whether it’s called art, intuition, feel, craft or any number of other things, the University of Waterloo instructor is determined to learn from how actual design practitioners do exceptional work in their fields.

Waterloo has placed sixth in the world for telecommunication engineering in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2017.

Telecommunications engineering, centered on electrical and computer engineering, supports and enhances telecommunication systems. The work ranges from basic circuit design to strategic mass developments.

Five Waterloo Engineering researchers will receive $410,000 for projects ranging from developing advanced automotive materials for improved crash performance to accelerating the adoption of metal additive manufacturing to address challenges associated with part quality, process repeatability and reliability.

A second-year student at the School of Architecture is one of three $5,000 scholarship winners in an essay contest sponsored by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

Osman Bari will receive his award at a gala in Toronto next month after his illustrated 1,000-word essay was selected from 180 entries from students at Canada’s 11 accredited architecture schools and other institutions.

A pair of second-year students at Waterloo Engineering already have their sights set on commercialization of a medical diagnostic tool after an impressive showing at an international pitch competition sponsored by Microsoft.

Declan Goncalves and Zeqi Cui are two-thirds of the brains behind NeuroGate, computer software that uses sensors and artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and ALS.

Obstacles and opportunities in the promising field of additive manufacturing (AM), or industrial 3D printing, are outlined in a lengthy feature story by Waterloo Engineering professor Ehsan Toyserkani in the latest issue of Industry Today.

For the third year in a row, management engineering students have captured the top prize at the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) student paper competition.

Alexandra Hayes, Christian Gould, Kevin Chu, and Srikajan Santhirakumaran came in first in the undergraduate category of this year's competition held recently in Québec City. Their paper, entitled "End-to-End Analytics: Wait Time Management of Ontario MRI Services", was based on the students’ Capstone Design project.