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A company that is co-owned by former classmates at Waterloo Engineering has hit pay dirt with the sale of its cardiology business for US $1.75 billion.

Baylis Medical Company Inc., which is co-owned by Frank Baylis (BASc ’86, electrical engineering) and Kris Shah (BASc ’86, electrical engineering), announced this week that it has reached a deal with Boston Scientific Corp. that is expected to close in the first quarter of 2022.

Three first-year students at Waterloo Engineering are starting their studies with support from a technology giant.

Shivam Jindal of Mississauga, Mulei Mao of Scarborough and Sophia Nguyen of Toronto are among the first 10 recipients of $30,000 scholarships from Amazon.

The new Amazon Future Engineer Canada program was created to help graduating high school students in underserved and underrepresented communities cover their university tuition.

Waterloo Engineering is continuing its climb up annual rankings by Times Higher Education of the best engineering schools in the world.

In results released by the United Kingdom publisher today, Waterloo took the 76^th spot for 2022, up from 82^nd last year and 89^th in 2020.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have made a key advancement in the development of technology to automatically analyze video of hockey games using artificial intelligence (AI).

The researchers combined two existing deep-learning AI techniques to identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy.

Decades after graduating from Waterloo Engineering, an alumnus is commemorating the supportive relationship he had with his doctoral supervisor by funding a professorship in both their names.

An architecture professor’s amphibious house research in Vietnam is featured as a Global Best Practice project at Expo 2020 Dubai opening today in the United Arab Emirates.

A recent graduate of Waterloo Engineering is taking a big step towards his dream of becoming an astronaut and travelling to Mars.

Jin Sing Sia (BASc ’21, mechanical engineering) is now in the midst of a two-week stay at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, a facility that simulates the Red Planet to help researchers learn how humans could survive there.

A new student at Waterloo Engineering is starting his studies backed by a national scholarship for the Deaf and hard of hearing.

Alexander Loo, of Pickering, is one of 23 winners nationwide of up to $3,000 a year for four years provided by Canadian Hearing Services (CHS).

A longstanding partnership between Waterloo Engineering researchers and a leading projection company has yielded new technology for a state-of-the-art laser projector.

A patented algorithm developed at the Vision and Image Processing (VIP) Lab drives resolution enhancement in the new M 4K25 RBG projector produced by Christie, a global company with engineering headquarters in Kitchener.

A researcher at Waterloo Engineering whose recent work on the effectiveness of masks and ventilation in preventing the spread of COVID-19 indoors received widespread media coverage is stressing that any mask is better than no mask.

A question-and-answer media release with Serhiy Yarusevich, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, was issued after his study with fellow professor Sean Peterson and engineering PhD students Yash Shan and John Kurelek was misrepresented by many media outlets as part of the politicization of mask usage.