It is with great sadness that we share the news of Professor Igor Ivković's death on November 27.
A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering was recently recognized for his work at a virtual conference for experts in the blockchain field.
Behkish Nassirzadeh, who is doing a master’s degree in computer engineering under the supervision of Professor Vijay Ganesh, won the award for innovation at the UBRI (University Blockchain Research Initiative) Connect 2020 event hosted by technology company Ripple.
Five former nanotechnology engineering students at the University of Waterloo have come a long way since they came together over a shared interest in optics and frustration with the poor quality of their smartphone photographs.
Just over a year after they teamed up, their startup technology company, Scope Photonics, earned international attention with the announcement today that it is a worldwide runner-up for the 2020 James Dyson Award for student inventors.
Companies founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni took the top two spots in an annual list of the fastest-growing technology companies in Canada.
Heading the Technology Fast 50 list, compiled by professional services firm Deloitte, is Kitchener-based Intellijoint Surgical, which develops smart tools to enhance the accuracy of orthopedic surgery, increase hospital efficiencies and improve the lives of patients.
One of the surest signs that Sam Dugan, 22, is a born entrepreneur might be this: he got the brainwave for his latest business venture, completely out of the blue, when he was on a date.
Two years later, while juggling studies as a third-year mechatronics engineering student at the University of Waterloo, he has turned that idea into a startup technology company to reduce injuries at ski resorts.
A research team led by a Waterloo Engineering professor has developed technology to track and measure environmental degradation in rivers.
Bruce MacVicar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, is using synthetic stone tracers to monitor how sediment is transported in rivers during floods.
The movement of sediment has an important impact on the health of rivers and infrastructure such as bridges and pipelines.
A doctoral student at Waterloo Engineering took a top-five spot this week in a global competition organized by the world’s largest engineering design magazine.
Ala Eldin Omer earned an honorable mention in the medical category of the 2020 Create the Future contest staged by Tech Briefs.
This year has been one like no other with the coronavirus upending lives in ways unimaginable at the beginning of 2020.
In October WEAL’s feature story, seven Waterloo Engineering researchers and alumni share their pandemic initiatives and opinions on how different buildings, education, work and everyday activities look now and could look in the future.
A professor at Waterloo Engineering is one step closer to her dream of establishing a world-leading carbon nanotechnology centre after winning a prestigious award for highly promising researchers.
Chemical engineering professor Aiping Yu is one of six nation-wide recipients of 2020 E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowships announced today by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Two startup companies with strong connections to Waterloo Engineering won financial backing at a recent Velocity Fund Pitch Competition.
The big winner of a $100,000 investment through the Velocity Fund and Velocity Health Tech Fund portfolios was PiAndPower, which is developing technology to identify viral structures through their waveform characteristics.