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A local entrepreneur has established new funding opportunities for undergraduate women at Waterloo Engineering.  

Janét Aizenstros, founder and chair of Kitchener-based Ahava Group Global, a women-led modern media parent company, has started a scholarship and an award she describes as providing “a launching pad for future generations of women.” 

Waterloo Engineering is the top engineering school in Canada for 2021 according to an influential annual ranking program.

In results released today, Maclean’s magazine placed Waterloo in a first-place tie with engineering at the University of Toronto based on program and research reputation.

That moves Waterloo up two spots from the Maclean’s rankings for the previous two years. Those ratings also included bibliometric data on research publications.

A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering is the inaugural winner of a new scholarship for women in the field of quantum information science.

Cindy Yang, who is doing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, has had a passion for acoustic and superconducting waves since learning how to make photonic devices.

Three new Waterloo Engineering undergraduates are starting their studies with financial backing from a local scholarship program for Black students.

Tahjeira Cameron, Carlton Darby and Dagmawit Worku are among 10 recipients of awards of $1,000 to $1,500 from the Waterloo Region chapter of the Congress of Black Women and the Caribbean Canadian Association of Waterloo Region.

Today we acknowledge the passing of 2^nd year Nanotechnology Engineering student Jaya Gupta and offer our deepest sympathies to her family, friends and peers.

Jaya was such an inspiration as she faced her very personal battle with cancer with both strength and courage. She shared with many that being a Waterloo engineering student was the absolute proudest accomplishment of her life and being a graduate of the program was a key achievement for her.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been honoured by an international organization for Earth and space scientists.

Nandita Basu is the 2020 winner of the Sulzman Award for Excellence in Education and Mentoring from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).

Digital X-ray technology developed by a Waterloo Engineering spinoff company has won approval from Health Canada.

A medical device licence issued for Reveal 35C, a dual-energy X-ray detector created by KA Imaging, follows clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States earlier this month.

Waterloo Engineering researchers behind an open-source project to detect COVID-19 using chest X-rays and artificial intelligence (AI) announced a significant advancement this week.

In addition to detecting the disease, researchers said their technology is now capable of determining its severity.

Researchers are using AI and chest X-rays to determine COVID-19 severity.

Researchers from Waterloo Engineering played prominent roles at a recent virtual symposium staged by the Region of Waterloo.

A team of faculty members, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows led by Nadine Ibrahim, a civil and environmental engineering lecturer, contributed two white papers exploring the implications of COVID-19 on the region’s official planning process.

The papers covered considerations involving water, wastewater, stormwater, asset management and roads.

Waterloo Engineering alumni company Clearpath Robotics has secured an additional US $5 million to fuel global growth of Otto Motors, its industrial division.

The investment boosts the total of its latest round of financial backing to US $34 million following the announcement in June of US $29 million.