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An electrical and computer engineering (ECE) professor has won an international prize for women that recognizes excellence in science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing and design.

Dr. Mahla Poudineh, who serves as director for ECE’s IDEATION lab, is one of six recipients of the Johnson & Johnson WiSTEM2D Scholars Award for Science. 

Enerza, a robotics engineering company, is creating a beetle-like robot that can predict power outages and mitigate wildfires.

Co-founded by Anson Maitland (PhD ’19, systems design engineering) and James Aein, Enerza's technology provides autonomous on-wire robots that will transform utility inspection processes to reduce the risk of conflagration from power line issues. 

A Waterloo Engineering professor was awarded $1.2 million in federal funding to protect Canada’s critical energy infrastructure and energy sector supply chains from cyber threats.

Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister and his research team will use the grant to develop an enhanced cybersecurity system, using a checkpoint technology, that can identify the threats to the supply chains serving the country’s energy sector.

The University of Waterloo’s new Trust in Research Undertaken in Science and Technology Scholarly Network (TRuST) brings together researchers and practitioners from across disciplines to improve communication with the public and build trust in science and technology.

Dr. Mary Wells, dean of Waterloo Engineering, Dr. Donna Strickland, recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Dr. Ashley Rose Mehlenbacher, Canada Research Chair in Science, Health and Technology Communication, will host the inaugural speaker series event on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. 

Waterloo Engineering professor advances UN Sustainable Development Goals in the areas of affordable and clean energy and water.

Working with Canadian and international partners, Dr. David Simakov's research focuses on the conversion of CO2 into renewable synthetic fuels and sustainable hydrogen generation.  

Health-tech startup Vital Bio secured a total of US$48 million from investors including Sam Altman, 8VC and Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings to advance its medical diagnostics technology.  

Two of the company’s co-founders are Waterloo Engineering alumni Dr. Iman Khodadad (PhD ‘16) and Dr. Farnoud Kazemzadeh (PhD ‘15).

University of Waterloo researchers have developed a way to reduce bias in machine learning-generated decision-making and knowledge organization.

Led by Dr. Andrew Wong, a distinguished professor emeritus of systems design engineering at Waterloo, the research team has built an innovative  model that aims to enhance trust and reliability in explainable artificial intelligence (XAI). 

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering was recently appointed as a member of Space Canada, the nation’s foremost organization representing Canada’s space innovators and ecosystem.

Space Canada advocates for the prioritization and strengthening of the Canadian space ecosystem to attract investment and help position Canada at the forefront of the highly strategic global New Space Economy.

Two Waterloo professors in civil and environmental engineering, Dr. Chul Min Yeum and Dr. Sriram Narasimhan, have created a smart city infrastructure monitoring and alerting system.

The Remote Inspection Platform (RIP) uses artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to provide an alternative approach to the typically costly, difficult and tedious process of manually inspecting bridges. 

Dr. Maya Przybylski is dropping the ‘interim’ from her title as she begins a new appointment as the O’Donovan Director of Waterloo’s School of Architecture in September.

Przybylski has served as Waterloo Architecture’s director in an interim capacity since July 2022 after previous director Dr. Anne Bordeleau’s departure. A professor at the school since 2011, she held the associate director of undergraduate studies role before her elevation to interim director and is a past recipient of the Faculty of Engineering’s Teaching Excellence Award.