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Aspiring entrepreneurs from Waterloo Engineering are members of startups that took six of eight prizes on the line today at the Velocity Fund Finals.

Included were two of the four $25,000 awards for more seasoned companies run by students or recent graduates, as well as the $10,000 bonus for the top hardware or science team.

Accomplished alumni, outstanding current students and committed supporters of Waterloo Engineering were all celebrated as more than 400 people gathered recently for the 2017 Awards Dinner.

Along with hundreds of graduate and undergraduate students recognized for their academic and extracurricular successes, the annual event at Federation Hall honoured graduates in three categories and a foundation dedicated to helping produce engineers.

Dean Pearl Sullivan wrapped up the evening by urging everyone in attendance to wear their connections to the Faculty on their sleeves.

Waterloo Engineering researchers Alexander Wong and Mohammad Javad Shafiee are developing deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) software that would allow devices to operate independent of the Internet and cloud computing.

Researchers from Waterloo Engineering shared the spotlight yesterday as Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne officially announced Stratford as the home of a testing zone for the development of self-driving vehicles.

The proportion of women in the incoming class at Waterloo Engineering this fall hit 30 per cent for the first time ever.

As of Nov. 1, the official count date for reporting to the Ontario Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, 474 of 1,580 new undergraduate students in engineering programs were female – exactly reaching the 30-per-cent milestone.

Six researchers at Waterloo Engineering were recently awarded new or renewed Canada Research Chairs worth a total of $4.8 million.

They were among 14 researchers campus-wide to receive $9.7 million through the federal government program, which is designed to promote research excellence and train the next generation of highly skilled people in the natural sciences, health sciences, humanities and social sciences.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cited the University of Waterloo today as he talked about Canada’s efforts to stem the brain drain to the United States.

Speaking at the Go North conference on artificial intelligence (AI) in Toronto, Trudeau listed stability, immigration and proximity to a “pipeline of raw talent” as key factors in the growth of the Waterloo-Toronto technology corridor and the local opportunities it offers.

Educating engineers at the University of Waterloo got a major boost today with the announcement of more than $3 million in funding over five years for a variety of immersive, hands-on programs.

Activities organized by the Engineering IDEAs Clinic will range from two-hour, in-class projects such as taking apart internal combustion engines, to two-day, open-ended problems requiring students to work in teams and draw on all of their academic lessons to find solutions.

Work at Waterloo Engineering to make better supercapacitors is paving the way for the quick-charging, energy-storage devices to replace batteries for a growing range of uses.

Michael Pope, a chemical engineering professor who led the research, said supercapacitors with more storage capacity could eventually power everything from consumer electronics to high-powered lasers.

Management Sciences professor Sibel Alumur Alev was recently awarded the Charles ReVelle Rising Star in Location Analysis award at the 2017 INFORMS annual meeting in Houston, Texas.