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Dr. Peter Huck, a civil and environmental engineering professor and Water Institute member dubbed “The Wayne Gretzky of the Water Industry,” is celebrating a remarkable 30 years as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Chair in Water Treatment.

The prestigious NSERC Industrial Research Chair,  funded jointly by NSERC and currently 16 Canadian partners in the water treatment industry, facilitates collaboration between industry and Huck’s research group to address the short to medium-term challenges of the funding partners, including changing source water quality, changing industry regulations and the desire for more sustainable processes while ensuring the protection of public health. 

Waterloo Engineering grads Anna Liebenberg and Shreshth Mehra (both BASc ’22, mechanical engineering) have developed wearable workout gear for real-time training feedback.

The technology, called Trainpro, provides feedback on optimal training form – much like a coach would – enabling people to get the most from their workouts. 

A Waterloo Engineering professor's MRI invention reveals better than many existing imaging technologies how COVID-19 can change the human brain.

The new imaging technique known as correlated diffusion imaging (CDI) was developed by Dr. Alexander Wong, a systems design engineering professor, and recently used in a groundbreaking study by scientists at Baycrest’s Rotman Research Institute and Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto.

Thousands of graduating engineering students cheered, laughed and shed a few tears as they crossed the stage at convocation to receive their engineering degrees from the University of Waterloo.

With family, friends and the Waterloo Engineering community in attendance, 1,408 undergraduate and 562 graduate students celebrated their academic successes across four convocation ceremonies.

A collaboration between Waterloo Engineering's chemical engineering department, Niagara College and agricultural partner Jeffery's Greenhouses provides controlled environment agriculture (CEA) training for engineering students.

Led by Dr. Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir, a chemical engineering professor at Waterloo, Bill MacDonald and Evan DiValentino from Niagara College and Albert Grimm, head grower at Jeffery’s Greenhouses, the three-day introductory training aims to facilitate engineering involvement in Canada’s agricultural sector.

Three professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded close to $1 million in feceral funding today through a program supporting small modular reactors (SMRs) research using nuclear energy and materials to protect health, safety, security and the environment. 

The funding is part of $15 million in support announced for projects across the country through the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) Small Modular Reactors Research Grant. Four projects are set to receive a total of $1.3 million campus-wide.

Dr. Alexander Wong, a systems design engineering professor at Waterloo, has been selected as a new Royal Society of Public Health fellow.

Wong’s election as a fellow recognizes his contributions to global public health. He joins a prestigious group of health-care professionals, food safety specialists, environmental health experts, policymakers and academics who are passionate about advancing public health interests.

Keval Tripathi, a third-year electrical and computer engineering student at the University of Waterloo is on a four-month study abroad experience at Griffiths University in Queensland, Australia – the furthest from home he’s ever been – and loving it. 

To help him pay his way, Tripathi applied for the Kothari Family International Experience Award and received $2,000 to assist with flights and accommodation.

Completing a PhD is at once the end and the beginning of a journey of exploration and discovery in a student’s academic career.

One of Waterloo Engineering's new cohort of doctoral graduates at the 2023 Spring Convocation is Dylan Jubinville who completed a PhD in chemical engineering. His research project and dissertation, “Highly filled, durable, and sustainable wood-plastic composites from recycled thermoplastics,” was completed under the supervision of Dr. Tizazu Mekonnen.

Two Waterloo Engineering faculty members have been elected fellows by Canada’s most distinguished engineering academy.

Dr. Monica Emelko and Dr. Carolyn Ren are among the newest cohort of 55 fellows to be elected to the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) by their peers. Fellows have been selected because of their "outstanding contributions to engineering and for serving as role models in their fields and communities,” said CAE’s president Dr. Soheil Asfarpour in a media release.