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Two Waterloo Engineering students in the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MBET) program successfully pitched their ventures at the GreenHouse 31st Social Impact Showcase.  

Adedayo Adefarakan, founder of PharmaChill, received $10,000 and Kevin Shang Ye, founder of Care Connect, received $1,000 in funding from the Social Impact Fund.

The Future Cities Insitute (FCI), a partnership between the University of Waterloo and the Caivan Group, is committed to building prosperous future cities.  

Caivan, a Canadian real-estate developer co-founded by Waterloo alumni Troy van Haastrecht (BASc ’93, civil engineering) and Frank Cairo (BES ’05) donated $10 million to establish the institute.  

A study conducted by Stanford University has named eleven Department of Chemical Engineering faculty members as world leading academics in their fields.

The study used criteria related to research citations to find the top two per cent of researchers. Chemical Engineering faculty members consistently ranked in the top 100,000 globally.

Twelve fourth-year student teams from the Faculty of Engineering competed in this year’s Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design. 

They pitched their startup ideas to a panel of judges with six teams winning $12,000 and six winning $5,000.  

An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Waterloo is launching a new battery research centre that will play a crucial role in developing the electric vehicles of tomorrow.

The Ontario Battery and Electrochemistry Research Centre (OBEC), led by Dr. Linda Nazar from the Faculty of Science and Dr. Michael Pope from the Faculty of Engineering, will be Canada’s newest facility tasked with advancing next-generation electric vehicle battery development.

A research team from the University of Waterloo is using radar technology to monitor people’s health while at the wheel, turning the ordinary car or truck into a mobile, medical hub.

Dr. George Shaker, an adjunct professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and Ali Gharamohammadi, the lead PhD student on the project, have integrated radar with evolving vehicle technology to make health checks easier—without the need for any type of wearable.

Waterloo Engineering student teams excelled at the 2024 Canadian Engineering Competition. Each year the competition (which started in Waterloo in 1985) brings together the brightest engineering students from across the country to compete in eight different competition categories.

At the Ontario Engineering Competition, five teams from Waterloo achieved 1^st or 2^nd place. This was followed by four placements for teams at the national competition.

Barbara Paldus (BASc ’93 electrical engineering, BMATH ’93) has established the Professor Josef Paldus Engineering Scholarship to advance innovation in biomedical engineering. 

The scholarship's inaugural recipient is Hana Karim, a first-year biomedical engineering student.  

Waterloo Engineering is known for encouraging and supporting entrepreneurship. But it was only in her fifth co-op term that Kayli Dale (BASc ‘20, chemical engineering), co-founder and CEO of Friendlier, understood the impact a founder can make and set out to launch her own business.  

In 2020, Dale and her friend Jacquie Hutchings (BASc ‘20, chemical engineering) launched Friendlier—a company aligned with their values and committed to eliminating single-use packaging with reusable containers.  

Dr. Mahla Poudineh, Assistant Professor and Director of the IDEATION Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is one of five researchers to receive funding from the Ontario government.

Dr. Poudineh won the award for her project titled: A new transdermal patch to continuously and without pain track and treat diabetes.