Palette, Petro Predict, SparkGig and TrendRadius, four passionate startups with strong collaborators, solid business models and great pitches walked away with funding of $25,000 each and coveted spots in the Velocity’s business incubation hub.
Three graduate students from the Faculty of Engineering competed in Waterloo’s second annual university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.
From March 26th's Daily Bulletin
Barry Wills, a member of the University of Waterloo's first graduating class of engineers and one of the University's longest-serving faculty members, died March 18 at the age of 74.
Wills, who was a systems design engineering professor, retired in 2006 
after 42 years with the Faculty of Engineering.
Rania Al-Hammoud is one of three University of Waterloo students to be awarded the 2014 Amit & Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student.
PiinPoint, a location analytics company, co-founded by Jim Robeson, a graduate of Waterloo Engineering's Master in Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program, and Adam Saunders, a current Waterloo Environment student, is the latest company from University of Waterloo incubator VeloCity, to participate in the prestigious Y Combinator accelerator program in Silicon Valley.
Josh Bradshaw, a second-year systems design engineering student, has been chosen by the University of Waterloo as Engineering's 2013 co-op student of the year.
High school students with a passion for designing, building and programming robots will compete from March 20 to 22 at the University of Waterloo in the qualifying round for FIRST, an international robotics competition.
Thirty teams with names such as SWAT, Warp7, Simbotics, Ice Cubed, BeaverworX, REBotics and Ram-ferno will vie for an invitation to the FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) World Championships in St. Louis, Missouri, where they will compete with teams from all over the world for the title of 2014 FRC World Champions.
Adrian Gerlich, a University of Waterloo Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering Professor, has been named the NSERC/TransCanada Industrial Research Chair in Welding for Energy Infrastructure.
The Mechatronics Design Symposium is one of ten Capstone Design symposiums presented by Waterloo Engineering this month.
Alison Scott, a chemical engineering MASc candidate and engineering outreach volunteer, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Master's Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious scholarship of $10,000 is awarded to one woman enrolled full-time in an engineering master’s program at a Canadian university.