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Innovation and sustained growth in the field of live video production have earned a Waterloo Engineering alumnus recognition as CEO of the Year in Ottawa for 2016.

David Ross, CEO and majority owner of Ross Video, will collect the award from the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and the Ottawa Business Journal at a gala Nov. 10 attended by about 800 business leaders.

Four graduates of Waterloo Engineering took top honours in their categories this week at a prestigious awards gala for Ontario entrepreneurs.

Sponsored by professional services firm Ernst & Young and held in Toronto, the event recognized Waterloo alumni with successful businesses in fields ranging from video games to aluminum manufacturing.

Cited by judges at the 23^rd annual EY Entrepreneur of the Year program for Ontario were:

The co-founder of a startup company based on research at Waterloo Engineering won a $25,000 provincial award this week for student entrepreneurs.

Chekema Prince, who earned her PhD in mechanical engineering at Waterloo in 2014, took home the Martin Walmsley Award for Entrepreneurship from the annual meeting of the Ontario Centres of Excellence in Toronto.

A technology innovation with potential applications in biomedical, diagnostic and optical imaging took a top prize for a Waterloo Engineering master’s student at a contest in Montreal this week sponsored by CMC Microsystems.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo are joining a major effort to help make Canadian manufacturers more competitive through the use of computer modelling.

Led by Kaan Erkorkmaz, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the Waterloo team is in line for $1.3 million in funding over five years to tackle complex issues in advanced manufacturing.

Following up on comments made by Donald Trump in a presidential campaign debate regarding the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), both the New York Times and BNN reached out to Jim Bookbinder for his input on the consequences proposed.

Perseverance is paying off for a Waterloo Engineering alumnus with ambitions to make the game of hockey even faster than it already is.

Jeffrey Azzolin (BASc 2013, Mechanical) applied his education to develop a skate blade that speeds up players using a spring action to store and release energy as they stride.

Time was tight, but Team Pear made it under the wire as more than 200 first-year mechatronics engineering students got out of class to tackle hands-on problems recently.

Despite a math error that set them back two hours, members Eric Chee, Ken Jen Lee, Karan Bajaj and Mulan Ramani combined calculus, linear algebra, graphic design, computer programming and a little 3D modelling to make a plotter using a Lego controller.

Free apple cider certainly didn’t hurt, but there wasn’t much arm-twisting required today when Waterloo Engineering invited students to thank all the people who donate money to enhance their educations.

A steady stream of students took a few minutes out in the foyer of Carl Pollock Hall to write personal thank-you cards or pose with messages on white boards for photographs to be shared on social media.

A robotics company founded by four Waterloo Engineering alumni expects to almost double its workforce within 18 months after securing $30 million US in funding to pursue the market for self-driving vehicles in factories and warehouses.