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The University of Waterloo will celebrate the life and legacy of President Emeritus Douglas Tyndall Wright with a special event on September 23.

Wright, who served as the first dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1958 to 1966 and as Waterloo’s third president and vice-chancellor from 1981 to 1993, passed away on May 21, 2020.

A project inspired by a co-op work term on a construction crew has put a Waterloo Engineering student in the running for an international invention prize.

Adrian Simone, who is in his fourth year of the civil engineering program, was announced today as a national runner-up in the 2022 James Dyson Award competition for a proposal to make bricks using bacteria.

Carl Haas, a Waterloo Engineering professor and department chair for civil and environmental engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Haas is one 156 new fellows from across the country elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements. In all, six University of Waterloo researchers were announced today as recipients of the elite distinction.

A new online art gallery, co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alumnus Parisa Golchoubian (MASc ’17), is helping new and emerging Canadian artists connect with one another and grow their businesses.

Golchoubian is a systems design engineering graduate and a self-taught artist. After working for a few years as a software designer, she decided to turn her passion for art into a career by co-founding online gallery Artterra.

A collaboration involving researchers at Waterloo Engineering and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany has produced an extensive open-source dataset of images to help advance automated manufacturing.

The dataset includes more than 200,000 images created both in the metaverse and in the real world, the largest of its kind for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for vision-driven robotics in manufacturing environments.

An experiment inspired by Silly String and built by a first-year Waterloo Engineering student is scheduled to travel into space today aboard a Blue Origin rocket.

Olivia Ye, who is studying mechatronics engineering, was still in high school in her hometown of Newmarket when she participated in an online Shad Canada program two years ago that will culminate with a launch in Texas.

SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has continued to evolve at a rapid pace in the last two years, leading to the emergence of new, tougher variants and a surge in breakthrough infections of fully vaccinated and boosted people around the world.

As a result, there is a pressing need to develop new, safe, cost-effective vaccines that provide broader coverage and are accessible to people everywhere. Fortunately, that is entirely possible thanks to trailblazing startup Refana, which has a strong connection to the engineering faculty, dating back to the 1980s.

Four incoming students at the University of Waterloo are backed by $30,000 scholarships through an Amazon program that was created to boost diversity in technology fields.

Hewan Amare, Jadiha Aruleswar, Ayaan Dada and Mairah Hashmi are among 10 first-year students across the country announced today as winners of Amazon Future Engineer Canada scholarships.

Transitioning to greater use of renewable energy is one of the keys for Canada to avoid the kind of massive price increases facing many other countries, according to a Waterloo Engineering professor whose research expertise includes energy systems and storage.

Xianguo Li, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, tackles issues around the country's energy security in a question-and-answer release issued by the University of Waterloo today.

The importance of building a support network and the power of great ideas are among the insights offered by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus in an interview about a startup she launched to make the fashion world greener.

Iris Redinger (BAS ’21) started Material Futures while she was still a student at the Waterloo School of Architecture and recently won an award for entrepreneurs who turn research discoveries into businesses that benefit Canadians.