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Passionate about sharing his Indigenous background, an adjunct architecture professor named a new course after the ceremony his ancestors have used for thousands of years to welcome visitors to their homeland. 

This semester, William Woodworth, also known as Elder Bill, started teaching At the Woods Edge, a course focused on the relationships between Indigenous peoples and settlers from the 16th century to today, and how those associations have affected both engineering and architecture.

After being told by a high school teacher that she wasn’t smart enough to pursue a post-secondary engineering education, Amy Tai has proven him wrong. In a big way.

With a cumulative average of over 98 per cent, the newly minted engineering graduate was the top student in her management engineering program for every term and has already started a master’s degree at Waterloo.

Four professors at the Waterloo School of Architecture are involved in an unprecedented research partnership to increase the equity, social value and sustainability of the built environment.

Three graduating students at Waterloo Engineering are out to protect the environment and help farmers increase profits with technology to optimize the use of pesticides on crops.

Jack Paduchowski, Brandon Chan and Kurtis Eisler, classmates in the mechatronics engineering program, launched Maesos Technologies in 2020 to collect predictive weather and fungal spore data for wine grape farmers in the Niagara Region with custom sensors.

Cooks throughout Asia put moist bamboo chopsticks into hot oil in a frying pan, watching the bubbles that form and listening to the sizzling sound they make as they burst to gauge the perfect cooking temperature.

Now, an international team of researchers, including a professor from Waterloo Engineering, has used the technique as inspiration to learn about the complex physics behind the seemingly simple trick.

A student who has already demonstrated a keen interest in innovation will start her studies at Waterloo Engineering with backing from a prestigious scholarship.

Gurnirmal Kaur is one of four winners of James Hillier Foundation scholarships, which provide $20,000 over four years to students from Brantford and Brant County who are entering university in science-related fields.

Researchers at Waterloo Engineering lead two projects that were awarded a combined total of more than $200,000 by the federal government today.

Philip Beesley, a professor of architecture known for his striking work on living architecture, received $114,176 for a project called the Empathetic Spaces Partnership that involves a long list of co-applicants, collaborators and partners in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Australia.

Sarah Odinotski (BASc '22, nanotechnology engineering), Engineering's 2021 Co-op Student of the Year, was recently named a winner in the Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Rogers Women of Year Awards for 2022.

Odinoski took the top award in the Young Adult Category. 

While she was an undergraduate student, Odinotski worked with Mahla Poudineh, an electrical and computer engineering professor, to develop a hydrogel-based microneedle biosensor for pH measurement.

A new short film inspired by the work of a Waterloo School of Architecture professor is now available online.

Philip Beesley worked on the film entitled Cradle with Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, who are both based in London, England, and Salvador Breed, who is based in Amsterdam.

A media release on Cradle's premiere said that the film evokes the birth of life on earth.

Five Waterloo Engineering faculty members were elected fellows by the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) at its annual general meeting held on June 13. 

The new fellows include David Clausi of systems design engineering, Duane Cronin and Zhongchao Tan of mechanical and mechatronics, Karim Karim of electrical and computer engineering and Maria Anna Polock of civil and environmental engineering.