A doctoral candidate in the department of mechanical and mechatronics engineering has been honoured with an Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
Research led by a Waterloo Engineering professor has demonstrated the enormous potential of quantum-enhanced noise radar to improve radar technology.
Christopher Wilson is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and principal investigator of the Engineered Quantum Systems Lab at the Institute for Quantum Computing.
“We are applying technology developed for quantum computing to immediate, practical situations,” he said in a media release.
Nathan Duarte was honoured today as Waterloo Engineering’s top co-op student, as well as one of the country’s 2018 Co-op Students of the Year as selected by Co-operative Education and Work-Integrated Learning (CEWIL) Canada.
The third-year biomedical engineering student helped develop a novel bio-ink that can be used to decrease the amount of time it takes to 3D-print kidney tissues while he was on a co-op term at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering has taken top prize for the second straight year at the campus-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
Haya Almutairi, who advanced to the University of Waterloo finals by winning a heat for civil and environmental engineering students, spent her 180 seconds in the spotlight Wednesday explaining her research into self-healing asphalt pavements.
Thirty-two teams of high school students with a passion for designing, building and programming robots will compete at the annual Ontario District University of Waterloo FIRST Robotics Competition starting on Friday.
Teams include local favorite Team Dave from St. David’s Catholic Secondary School in Waterloo.
A project co-led by a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo was honoured recently at an awards event sponsored by the Canadian Wood Council.
Wander Wood, an experimental wooden structure installed last fall on the campus of the University of British Columbia, took the Jury’s Choice award, drawing high praise for invoking movement, detail and texture.
Winners have been selected from the University's first virtual Industry 4.0 competition for secondary schools run by a team focused on promoting Waterloo’s management engineering program.
Team Conveyor Belt from Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough placed first, team Avo from St. Francis Xavier Secondary School in Mississauga came in second, and team BCSS1 from Bill Crothers Secondary School in Markham captured third in the one-day event held in February.
The host of CBC radio's Quirks and Quarks turned to a Waterloo Engineering professor with a question about wind turbines on the program’s March 16 show.
Bob MacDonald asked David Johnson, a Waterloo mechanical engineering professor and founder of the University's Wind Energy Research Group, to respond to the following question submitted by a listener in North Gower, Ottawa.
Vehicles could be affordably produced for a wide variety of specialized purposes using a sophisticated wheel unit developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers.
The self-contained unit combines a wheel and an electric motor with braking, suspension, steering and a control system in a single module designed to be bolted to any vehicle frame.
Two researchers at Waterloo Engineering will receive more than $240,000 through a federal program to provide the tools and equipment needed for them to become leaders in their fields.
Sushanta Mitra, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, is in line for $150,000 for infrastructure for work to understand how drops wet surfaces, knowledge that is key to the discovery and development of new materials.