As in past Velocity pitch competitions, Waterloo Engineering students captured the majority of awards at July's Velocity Fund Finals, including the top four $25,000 prizes. The winners included:
Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering, Mike Kirkup (MMSc ‘07, MSci), Michael Litt (BASc '10, SD), Rachel Pautler (BASc' 15, Nano), and Ted Livingston, a former engineering student are featured in a Globe and Mail article entitled Startup city: The high-tech fever reshaping Kitchener-Waterloo, part of a series written by Shane Dingman, the Globe's technology reporter. Each article explores burgeoning tech companies on the rise in various parts of Canada, the challenges they face and how locales are supporting their rising stars.
Waterloo's award-winning Engineering Science Quest program had humble beginnings. Started as a fourth-year project by a science student and an engineering student in 1990, it was launched as a camp the following summer for kids in Grades 5 and 6.
ESQ now offers multiple summer camps on the main Waterloo campus for boys and girls entering Grades 1 to 9. It also offers March break, Winter break, after school and weekend programs, as well as various in-school and community initiatives. Satellite programming is provided in various rural and aboriginal locations throughout Ontario.
Two management engineering teams won the top two awards in the undergraduate category at this year's Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) 2015 Student Paper Competition held in Montreal. A third team placed in the competition's top five. All the students' papers were also their 2015 Waterloo Engineering Capstone Design projects.
First year Waterloo School of Architecture students take home the three top prizes in the 2015 Annual Steel Structures Education Foundation Student Design Competition:
- Award of Excellence to Justin Ng and Tristan Sito
- Award of Merit to Christy Cheng and Shaina Coulter
- Award of Merit to Jane Hung, Winona Li and Sean Quach
A Waterloo Engineering Team won the 2015 Electric Mobility Canada Student Competition, an event co-sponsored by AddÉnergie and Electric Mobility Canada. The award came with a $4,500 charging station for Waterloo.
At the competition held in Halifax teams were presented with an electric vehicle (EV) power train configuration and battery charging issue to resolve. Each team prepared a presentation of its issue, a solution and a plan for adoption. The Waterloo team proposed a Metal/Air – LiIon Hybrid vehicle as the technical solution:
Three Waterloo Engineering professors are among the list of several individuals with an affiliation with the University who were named to the Order of Canada.
His Excellency the Right Honourable David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, announced 100 new appointments to the Order of Canada on July 1. The Order has three levels: Companion, Officer and Member.
Pu Chen, a chemical engineering professor, and Ming Yu, an electrical and computer engineering professor, have been elected as fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, recognized for their outstanding abilities.
Carl Haas, a Waterloo civil and environmental engineering professor, was recognized with the American Society of Civil Engineer's 2015 Peurifoy Construction Research Award during the 2015 International Construction Specialty Conference held in Vancouver from June 8-10.
Over $8 million in funding from the Natural Science and Research Council of Canada's 2015 Discovery Grants program has been awarded for 55 Waterloo Engineering research projects.
Additionally, two engineering researchers were selected by NSERC to receive a funding boost to further their transformational research a with Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) grant.