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Talented young creators from around the world are coming together at the University of Waterloo this weekend for the sixth annual Hack the North event.

The largest hackathon in Canada and one of the largest in North America with 1,500 participants this year, the free student-run event gets crucial support from the Faculty of Engineering and is based in the three newest engineering buildings.

A team of recent Waterloo Engineering alumni is in the running for $1 million at the United Nations with a brand new startup it pivoted to in an English castle business accelerator last month.   

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, an electrical and computer engineering professor, has been recognized with the 2019 Award of Merit from the Federation of Chinese Professionals Ontario (FCCP) Education Foundation.

Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor, and Nandita Basu, a civil and environmental engineering professor, were elected to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) today.

An architecture grad student’s winning paper illustrates the paradoxes of Somali nomadism and the desire for a temporary hut to be a home.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have uncovered a problem that could skew the results everywhere groundwater levels are monitored and used to set government policies.

Their study revealed that a discrepancy between scientific data and anecdotal reports on groundwater levels in southern India was caused by a statistical phenomenon known as ‘survival bias.’

A School of Architecture professor and renowned Holocaust historian has won a prestigious award that recognizes exceptional Canadian researchers and their achievements.

Engineering researchers at the University of Waterloo have unearthed inherent gender and age biases buried in a popular image dataset used to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems around the world.

The discovery will help researchers find ways to rebalance the data so it better reflects demographic diversity, ultimately paving the way for more accurate AI models.

A startup company with roots at Waterloo Engineering made a pitch to investors in California this week as a participant in the Y Combinator accelerator program.

SannTek Labs, which is based in the Velocity Garage in downtown Kitchener, is one of almost 200 startups in the three-month summer cohort of the high-profile Bay Area program. Participants typically receive $150,000 in seed funding.

Two incoming mechatronics engineering students will start their academic careers at the University of Waterloo this fall with $100,000 each in support from the Schulich Leader Scholarships program.

Evangeline Dryburgh, 17, of Mamora, Ont., and Shahed Saleh, 18, of Windsor, distinguished themselves in a field of more than 1,400 nominees for just 50 of the prestigious scholarships across the country.