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Three professors from Waterloo Engineering have been cited for recognition by their peers at a gala that will bring together industry innovators, business leaders and policy makers in November.

Organized by the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers (OSPE) and Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), the prestigious annual event will showcase the contributions engineers make to economic growth and technological advances through their work as innovators and entrepreneurs.

The award recipients from Waterloo are:

At least seven Waterloo Engineering alumni are in the running for prestigious Ontario entrepreneur awards sponsored by professional services firm Ernst & Young.

Dave Kroetsch of Aeryon Labs is one of seven Waterloo Engineering finalists for prestigious entrepreneur award.

A device that harvests ambient emissions from smartphones and converts them into power to run smart contact lenses has earned a team of Waterloo Engineering students a third-place finish and a $4,500 US prize in an international design competition.

Fifty student teams vied for honours at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Symposium in Puerto Rico after being challenged to design and build power-harvesting devices capable of turning radio-frequency emissions into useful DC power.

Two electrical and computer engineering faculty members were named fellows of the prestigious Canadian Academy of Engineering on June 27.

They kept the details of their work quiet for years, just one of the many requirements of collaborating on a sensitive project with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

But now that their compact, one-of-a-kind antenna has made a public splash, blasting off from India this week as a key component of a microsatellite on a mission to test new technologies, Waterloo Engineering researchers  are ready to celebrate their success.

A total of 1,430 Waterloo Engineering students received their degrees as part of the University of Waterloo's 112th convocation. There were 1,071 engineering undergraduate degrees and 359 graduate degrees awarded at two ceremonies on June 18.

A civil and environmental engineering Capstone Design team captured third place at the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers (CSCE) Annual Congress held in London, ON.

Richard Yim, a newly minted mechanical engineering grad, grew up in Cambodia where the fear of stepping on landmines was part of every child’s life. As a young boy, Yim dreamed of inventing technology that would put an end to landmine casualties around the world.

“After war, when peace comes and bullets stop flying, landmines are still in the ground,” says Yim. “Children shouldn’t have to be afraid to step off the beaten path. They should be able to walk to school and hike and explore their world without fear.”

An exhibit, based on research by Robert Jan van Pelt, a Waterloo School of Architecture professor who has spent 30 years studying the architecture of the Holocaust, is on display at the 15^th International Architecture Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, which began May 28 and runs until November 27.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University of Waterloo and the University of Twente to establish an international, transatlantic data research network rooted in the combination of engineering and sciences with social and health sciences was signed at the Design Lab.