Rania Al-Hammoud is one of three University of Waterloo students to be awarded the 2014 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
PiinPoint, a location analytics company, co-founded by Jim Robeson, a graduate of Waterloo Engineering's Master in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program, and Adam Saunders, a current Waterloo Environment student, is the latest company from University of Waterloo incubator VeloCity, to participate in the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley.
Josh Bradshaw, a second-year systems design engineering student, has been chosen by the University of Waterloo as Engineering's 2013 co-op student of the year.
High school students with a passion for designing, building and programming robots will compete from March 20 to 22 at the University of Waterloo in the qualifying round for FIRST, an international robotics competition.
Thirty teams with names such as SWAT, Warp7, Simbotics, Ice Cubed, BeaverworX, REBotics and Ram-ferno will vie for an invitation to the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, where they will compete with teams from all over the world for the title of 2014 FRC World Champions.
Adrian Gerlich, a University of Waterloo Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor, has been named the NSERC/TransCanada Industrial Research Chair in Welding for Energy Infrastructure.
The Mechatronics Design Symposium is one of ten Capstone Design symposiums presented by Waterloo Engineering this month.
Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate and engineering outreach volunteer, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Master's Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious scholarship of $10,000 is awarded to one woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.
Electrical and Computer Engineering Researchers Chitral Angammana and Shesha Jayaram have been honoured with the IEEE James R. Melcher Prize Paper Award 2013, for the technical excellence displayed in their work entitled Investigation of the Optimum Electric Field for a Stable Electrospinning Process.
Lin Tan and Wojciech Golab of electrical and computer engineering have been honoured with Google Research Awards. Tan's software engineering project and Golab's systems project were two of the 115 projects to be funded out of the 691 proposals received from researchers working in 46 countries. Their awards each include tuition for a graduate student and the the opportunity to work directly with Google researchers and engineers. This is the second time Tan has won a Google award -- she also received one in 2010.
The new Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design will be awarded this year to upper year engineering projects.
Fifteen outstanding design projects, shortlisted from all engineering departments during the 2014 Capstone Design Symposia, will be chosen to compete for funding, based on the degree of project innovation and the merit of their business model. The finalists will be announced on March 28.