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As Waterloo Engineering launches into a $70 million fundraising campaign, Dean Pearl Sullivan shares the vision for this campaign and why this is a critical initiative as we work to ensure we continue to transform our education model.

Waterloo’s Formula Hybrid edged out other top university race cars at this year’s Formula Hybrid International Competition taking first place overall, winning another top award and setting a new all-time record in the total number of completed endurance laps.

Waterloo’s School of Architecture is ranked in the top 100 as the  QS World University Rankings by Subject includes architecture for the first time.

Waterloo's engineering programs that also made the 2015 top 100 subject ranking are civil engineering, electrical engineering and mechanical engineering.

Celebrating independent invention, Popular Science recently named the top 10 innovations for 2015 with the Popular Science Invention Awards. Among this years' extraordinary gadgets is the V-One custom circuit board printer created by mechatronics and nanotechnology engineering alumni at Voltera Inc. 

For nearly 60 years, innovation has been a hallmark of Waterloo Engineering. By delivering education in a unique way, we transformed how engineers learn, preparing them to tackle the truly difficult problems.

Making shared accommodation spaces more private and secure is the goal behind winning Capstone Design project, Boogaloo Bunks. The team, comprised of students from mechanical, mechatronics and systems design engineering, designed a solution that transforms hostel beds into private and secure personal pods.

Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor, and Lukasz Golab, a management sciences professor cross-appointed to mathematics, have been named new Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs.

Solder Otter, a safe, easy-to-use soldering iron with built-in fume extraction, was one of six major winners at the second annual Norman Esch Capstone Design Awards competition for engineering students held today at the University of Waterloo.

The Solder Otter (top) with built in exhaust system compared to a traditional soldering iron.