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A family doctor who earned his undergraduate degree at Waterloo Engineering has moved on to another stage in the process to select Canada’s next astronauts.

Jesse Zroback made the grade as the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) recently whittled the number of candidates down from 72 to 32 after thousands of people from across the country initially applied for two jobs last year.

Hundreds of students at Waterloo Engineering will explore new ways to apply a voice-activated virtual assistant system under a program backed by Amazon.

Announced today, the Alexa Fund Fellowship provides support for instruction and supervision of student design projects in the exploding field of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Nine researchers at Waterloo Engineering will receive a total of $630,000 from the federal government for the tools needed to further their work.

Announced today, the funding is part of $1.4 million awarded to 19 researchers in all faculties at the University of Waterloo.

A company launched by former Waterloo Engineering students has switched gears from self-driving shuttles to long-haul trucks.

Embark, which grew out of student startup Varden Labs, emerged from stealth mode last week after quietly working since the summer of 2016 to develop technology that allows trucks to go from one highway exit to another without intervention by a driver.

Angus Bruneau, the founding dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University, died February 19 at the age of 81.

Bruneau is remembered as an extraordinary visionary who made many significant contributions to Memorial during his tenure as dean from 1969 to 1974.

Leah Kristufek had an “aha moment” when Gordon Stubley briefly spoke to her first-year engineering class. Later, when she became one of his students, Kristufek discovered that inspiring moments would be an everyday occurrence in the engineering professor’s class.

Three researchers at Waterloo Engineering are receiving a total of almost $1.7 million in federal funding for strategic projects in collaboration with industry partners and other organizations.

Zhongwei Chen, Dana Kulić and Norman Zhou are among five University of Waterloo researchers in line for more than $3 million from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

Two graduates of Waterloo Engineering are among 72 candidates still in the running to become Canada’s next astronauts.

Martha Lenio and Jesse Zroback have been shortlisted by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) after 3,772 people from across the country initially applied for two jobs last year.

Waterloo Engineering undergraduate students captured four top awards at the Ontario Engineering Competition held January 27-31 at Carleton University in Ottawa.

The huge potential of artificial intelligence got much of the attention Friday as a University of Waterloo researcher joined other academics and business leaders for a wide-ranging panel discussion on growing the Waterloo-Toronto technology corridor into a global supercluster.

Alex Wong, a professor of systems design engineering who specializes in AI, was one of seven panelists at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto who explored why the idea should be aggressively pursued and how to make it a reality.