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A new artificial intelligence (AI) tool developed by Waterloo Engineering researchers could improve the diagnosis and treatment of eye diseases by enhancing the clarity and detail of medical images doctors rely on.

The AI model reverses quality loss and reconstructs reliable images of the cornea, the transparent tissue in the front of the eye, after researchers taught it the physics behind the imaging process.

Mary Wells, the dean of engineering at the University of Waterloo, has worked for years to understand and address the gender gap in her field.

She has focused on boosting the number of women in engineering, one of the academic disciplines where men still consistently outnumber women by about three to one.

But over the past decade or so, she has observed two new and important trends.

A Waterloo Engineering professor was recognized internationally for advancing ultrasound technology used in medical imaging and therapeutic applications.

Dr. Alfred Yu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and the University of Waterloo's associate vice-president of partnerships, entrepreneurship and commercialization, received the 2025 Carl Hellmuth Hertz Award for his extensive contributions to ultrasound imaging technology and therapeutic ultrasound.

The Pearl Sullivan Engineering IDEAs Clinic, a Waterloo Engineering program that complements classroom learning with hands-on design experiences, has earned international recognition.

The Clinic was named to the shortlist for the 2025 QS Reimagine Education Award in the Power of Partnerships category, placing among the top 20 per cent of more than 1,600 submissions worldwide for its collaborative, interdisciplinary approach.

A group of 30 students participated in this year’s Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship (SSEF) program, hosted by the University of Waterloo's Pearl Sullivan Engineering Ideas Clinic and developed in partnership with Halton Region.  

The students, from Waterloo and abroad, were tasked to develop ideas for improved urban development in Halton that could help the Region achieve its goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2045.

Hack the North, Canada’s largest student-led hackathon, welcomed more than 1000 student hackers to the University of Waterloo's Faculty of Engineering for its annual event of intense innovation. 

A marquee event on any serious hackers' calendar, Hack the North 2025 pulled out all the stops to deliver a memorable experience of 36 hours of playful, creative and collaborative builds. And they broke a Guinness World Record! 

The Faculty of Engineering community is mourning the loss of a professor whose pioneering work in biomedical optics advanced both science and clinical practice.

Kostadinka Bizheva, known as Dida to her colleagues and friends, was cross-appointed in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the School of Optometry and Vision Science, with her main appointment in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

The Waterloo Space Research Team (WSRT), a student design team from the University of Waterloo, saw their work soar into near-space last month during the Canadian Space Agency’s Strato-Science 2025 campaign in Timmins, Ontario.

WSRT’s experiment, Project ASTRA, was selected for the Canadian Stratospheric Balloon Experiment Design Challenge (CAN-SBX), a national competition that invites student teams to design, build and launch compact experiments on high-altitude balloons operated by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). 

Three entrepreneurial graduates of Waterloo Engineering have launched a new product they hope will change the home heating industry, reducing carbon emissions and saving customers money by driving a move away from natural gas to greener electricity.

Stephen Lake, Matthew Bailey and Aaron Grant (all BASc ’12, mechatronics engineering) built on their prior success in business to co-found Vancouver-based Jetson with a goal of making electric home heating much more common.  

Several researchers at Waterloo Engineering were key contributors to an international collaboration to turn sperm cells into magnetically controlled microrobots.

The sperm bots, as they have been dubbed, can be tracked using X-ray imaging, paving the way for potential uses in reproductive medicine, drug delivery and infertility diagnostics.