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A team of undergraduate students comprised mainly of Waterloo Engineering students won an international microrobotics competition, and  did so in less than one second.

The Mobile Microrobotics Challenge took place at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Karlsruhe, Germany. The Waterloo team won the Autonomous Mobility Challenge, where the microrobots must autonomously navigate a track in the shape of a figure eight.

School of Architecture student Sam Vickars won the 2013 Best of the Year in the Branding Category of the Student Design Awards by D&AD Awards in London England. The annual awards are regarded as a major event in the world of design and advertising. 

Recent management engineering students who will convocate in June took top prize in the design competition in this year's International Conference for Upcoming Engineers.  Hardeep Chagger, Scott Easton, Megan Maguire and Mark Santos won for Project Broadcast, a tablet-based app that consolidates all tools a project manager needs to successfully complete a project on time and within budget.

Paul Fieguth of systems design engineering will serve a second term as chair of his department. His new term begins September 1, 2013 and will run for four years.

In March, the University of Waterloo hosted the 3 Minute Thesis Competition (3MT) - a university-wide competition providing graduate students the opportunity to share their research with a non-specialist audience in three minutes with one static slide. Cash prizes were at stake, and the potential to advance and participate in the provincial finals held at Queen’s University.

Wayne Loucks, an electrical and computer engineering faculty member, has been reappointed as associate dean, undergraduate studies from July 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015.  Loucks has served as the associate dean for engineering undergraduate studies since 1998. 

"He continues to work in the interests of our growing number of undergraduates," says dean of engineering Pearl Sullivan in a memo to faculty and staff about Loucks' reappointment.  "I know that all the departments are grateful that he has agreed to continue leading this important portfolio for the Faculty."  

University of Waterloo graduate students engaged in energy policy research will benefit for the next 10 years from new energy policy research fellowships. 

A ‘smart’ walker could become the intelligent solution for elderly and disabled people thanks to the grand prize its inventors won in this year’s LaunchPad $50K competition.

Chemical engineering professor Marc Aucoin has been appointed academic director for WatPD-Engineering.  Aucoin's appointment runs from May 1, 2013 until April 30, 2016.  He succeeds Gordon Stubley, who is a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor and the associate dean of teaching for the Faculty.  Stubley served as the inaugural academic director for WatPD-Engineering over the past three years.   

Waterloo Engineering's new 1,400-kilogram payload crash sled was featured in action on a recent episode of Daily Planet. The crash sled provides vital information about the impact resistance and energy absorption capacity of light weight automotive structures. Interviewed on the program is Michael Worswick, a professor and Canada Research Chair in the University of Waterloo’s mechanical and mechatronics engineering department. Worswick is leading a research team that is working to develop lighter, safer automobiles.