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One of the newest Schulich Leaders at Waterloo Engineering is already making a splash in science communications.

Jonathan Zhou, a first-year mechatronics engineering student, was recently selected as one of 30 semi-finalists for the 2022 Breakthrough Junior Challenge, sponsored by Khan Academy. The semi-finalists were selected out of a pool of more than 1,000 applicants.

Five incoming students at Waterloo Engineering are starting their studies with $100,000 in backing from a prestigious scholarship program.

Subha Azrin and Krishna Patel of computer engineering, Norman Chen and Michael Xu of software engineering, and Jonathan Zhou of mechatronics engineering are among 10 campus-wide Schulich Leaders Scholarship winners at the University of Waterloo.

A startup company founded by a Waterloo Engineering professor and two of his graduate students has won US $250,000 to expand and commercialize green technology for the packaging industry.

Nfinite Nanotechnology was launched on Earth Day in 2021 by Kevin Musselman, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, and Chee Hau Teoh (MASc ’20) and Jhi Yong Loke (MASc ’21), who earned master’s degrees while developing the technology in his lab.

The University of Waterloo will celebrate the life and legacy of President Emeritus Douglas Tyndall Wright with a special event on September 23.

Wright, who served as the first dean of the Faculty of Engineering from 1958 to 1966 and as Waterloo’s third president and vice-chancellor from 1981 to 1993, passed away on May 21, 2020.

A project inspired by a co-op work term on a construction crew has put a Waterloo Engineering student in the running for an international invention prize.

Adrian Simone, who is in his fourth year of the civil engineering program, was announced today as a national runner-up in the 2022 James Dyson Award competition for a proposal to make bricks using bacteria.

Carl Haas, a Waterloo Engineering professor and department chair for civil and environmental engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Haas is one 156 new fellows from across the country elected by their peers for outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements. In all, six University of Waterloo researchers were announced today as recipients of the elite distinction.

A new online art gallery, co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alumnus Parisa Golchoubian (MASc ’17), is helping new and emerging Canadian artists connect with one another and grow their businesses.

Golchoubian is a systems design engineering graduate and a self-taught artist. After working for a few years as a software designer, she decided to turn her passion for art into a career by co-founding online gallery Artterra.

A collaboration involving researchers at Waterloo Engineering and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany has produced an extensive open-source dataset of images to help advance automated manufacturing.

The dataset includes more than 200,000 images created both in the metaverse and in the real world, the largest of its kind for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) for vision-driven robotics in manufacturing environments.

An experiment inspired by Silly String and built by a first-year Waterloo Engineering student is scheduled to travel into space today aboard a Blue Origin rocket.

Olivia Ye, who is studying mechatronics engineering, was still in high school in her hometown of Newmarket when she participated in an online Shad Canada program two years ago that will culminate with a launch in Texas.

SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has continued to evolve at a rapid pace in the last two years, leading to the emergence of new, tougher variants and a surge in breakthrough infections of fully vaccinated and boosted people around the world.

As a result, there is a pressing need to develop new, safe, cost-effective vaccines that provide broader coverage and are accessible to people everywhere. Fortunately, that is entirely possible thanks to trailblazing startup Refana, which has a strong connection to the engineering faculty, dating back to the 1980s.