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Members of a University of Waterloo student team with a strong engineering contingent didn’t snag any hardware, but they still came home with valuable lessons from a recent competition for unmanned aerial vehicles.

The Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group (WARG) was one of seven university teams from across Canada to put their entries to the test at the 13^th Unmanned Systems Canada Student UAS Competition in Southport, Manitoba last month.

Three research projects with Waterloo Engineering connections have been completed or are continuing with support from online education company D2L.

The D2L Innovation Guild was launched in 2018 in conjunction with four leading research universities in Canada, including the University of Waterloo, to help solve teaching and learning challenges.

Karina Sukhina woke up to the sound of the first bomb that landed on Kyiv at five a.m. February 24.

While at first uncertain about what she’d heard, Sukhina and her boyfriend Nazarii Kulyk were soon packing their bags and heading for safety.

Days later, the master’s student in computer science at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and Kulyk, also a master’s student studying at National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, fled Ukraine for Poland.

Ten teams from across Canada and around the word will come together at the University of Waterloo this weekend for the inaugural Canadian Hyperloop Competition.

Waterloop, an 80-member student design team at Waterloo, will square off against peers from as far afield as India as they showcase their pods for high-speed transportation systems akin to trains in a vacuum tube.

Major academic milestones in the careers of faculty members were celebrated Wednesday as Waterloo Engineering hosted its inaugural Faculty Commencement Day in the Engineering 7 event space.

The event recognized faculty members who have received tenure, and promotion to associate professor and full professor, and those advancing from lecturer to continuing lecturer. New faculty members, who bring fresh ideas and enthusiasm, novel research focuses and the potential for future achievements, were also welcomed into the Waterloo Engineering community.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering is teaming up with collaborators at Strathclyde University in Scotland on a research project that involves decarbonizing the steel industry.

Eric Croiset, a professor of chemical engineering, is co-lead of the interdisciplinary project, The Role of Hydrogen in Decarbonizing the Steel Industry: Upstream and Downstream Opportunities in Scotland and Ontario, which will include an exchange of research students.

The founding director of a busy clinic for hands-on learning at Waterloo Engineering has been honoured as a “trailblazer” by a national engineering organization.

Sanjeev Bedi, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering with a deep belief in the power of experiential education, is the 2022 winner of a Medal of Distinction in Engineering Education awarded at a gala in Toronto this week by Engineers Canada.

Researchers are developing a tiny, painless, wearable patch for people with type 1 diabetes that will send crucial readings to their smartphones.

The new project, funded by the JDRF (formerly known as the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation), involves the use of hundreds of tiny microneedles to sense glucose and ketone levels.

The research team is aiming to bring a product to market within the next few years to provide continuous, non-invasive monitoring to improve health and eliminate painful, inconvenient finger pricks.

Six decades after travelling halfway around the world to take a chance on a new university in Canada, a proud alumnus of Waterloo Engineering is helping it grow in a way he would never have imagined possible.

Nityanand Varma was the proverbial immigrant with eight dollars in his pocket when he left his native India in the early 1960s to do a master’s degree in civil engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Evelyn Yim and Aiping Yu, both chemical engineering professors, have been designated University of Waterloo Research Chairs along with seven other professors across the campus.

Yim, who joined Waterloo Engineering in 2016, is an expert in nanofabrication technologies and is one of the leading researchers studying the use of synthetic materials for altering stem cell behavior and differentiation of stem cell culture.