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Two management engineering teams won the top two awards in the undergraduate category at this year's Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) 2015 Student Paper Competition held in Montreal.  A third team placed in the competition's top five. All the students' papers were also their 2015 Waterloo Engineering Capstone Design projects.

First year Waterloo School of Architecture students take home the three top prizes in the 2015 Annual Steel Structures Education Foundation Student Design Competition:
- Award of Excellence to Justin Ng and Tristan Sito
- Award of Merit to Christy Cheng and Shaina Coulter
- Award of Merit to Jane Hung, Winona Li and Sean Quach
 

A Waterloo Engineering Team  won the 2015 Electric Mobility Canada Student Competition, an event co-sponsored by AddÉnergie and Electric Mobility Canada. The award came with a $4,500 charging station for Waterloo.

At the competition held in Halifax teams were presented with an electric vehicle (EV) power train configuration and battery charging issue to resolve. Each team prepared a presentation of its issue, a solution and a plan for adoption. The Waterloo team proposed a Metal/Air – LiIon Hybrid vehicle as the technical solution: 

Three Waterloo Engineering professors are among the list of several individuals with an affiliation with the University who were named to the Order of Canada.

His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, announced 100 new appointments to the Order of Canada on July 1. The Order has three levels: Companion, Officer and Member.

Pu Chen, a chemical engineering professor, and Ming Yu, an electrical and computer engineering professor, have been elected as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, recognized for their outstanding abilities.

Carl Haas, a Waterloo civil and environmental engineering professor, was recognized with the  American Society of Civil Engineer's 2015 Peurifoy Construction Research Award during the 2015 International Construction Specialty Conference held in Vancouver from June 8-10.

Over $8 million in funding from the Natural Science and Research Council of Canada's 2015 Discovery Grants program has been awarded for 55 Waterloo Engineering research projects.

Additionally, two engineering researchers were selected by NSERC to receive a funding boost to further their transformational  research a with Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) grant. 

A new frontier in wireless connectivity and a testing process that leverages machine learning and natural language processing are two of the Waterloo Engineering projects receiving a financial boost thanks to provincial research funding announced June 18.

Vehicles that are smarter and more environmentally-friendly than current models could emerge from technology developed at a new research facility at the University of Waterloo.

The $10 million Green and Intelligent Automotive (GAIA) research facility is established today in the Faculty of Engineering with $1 million initial funding from Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada (TMMC). The Governments of Canada and Ontario are also providing $2.1 million each through the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario Research Fund Research Infrastructure program.

A paper co-authored by Jonathan Shahen, a computer engineering master's student, Mahesh Tripunitara, a Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor, and Jianwei Niu a University of Texas-San Antonio professor was honoured with the best paper runner up award at the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies. The paper, entitled Mohawk+T: Efficient Analysis of Administrative Temporal Role-Based Access Control (ATRBAC) Policies, was recognized at the symposium held June 1-3 in Vienna, Austria.