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Creative ideas for a proposed all-wood Waterloo Engineering building won a student team first prize in an international contest.

The Structural Timber and Applied Research Team (START) was recognized in the student submission category of the Build the (Im)possible challenge sponsored by Rothoblaas, a timber technology company located in Italy.

Waterloo Engineering professors, staff and students raided their kitchen pantries and opened their wallets and hearts to take first place in this year’s Waterloo Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) Stock the Bank Challenge.

The challenge awarded non-perishable food items and monetary donations point values from one to five, with a number of most needed items such as canned vegetables, breakfast foods, fruit juices and toiletries receiving five. 

A medical startup company headed by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus has secured $20 million in new funding to fuel expansion and the development and commercialization of its flagship product.

Nicoya Lifesciences, co-founded in 2012 by Ryan Denomme (BASc’10, nanontechnology engineering, MASc ’12, mechanical engineering), is based in Kitchener and has over 100 employees.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has received national recognition for his contributions to the Canadian nuclear industry.

Mahesh Pandey, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who earned both his doctorate and master’s degree at Waterloo, was honoured with the 2021 Harold A. Smith Outstanding Contribution Award at an event staged by the Canadian Nuclear Society and the Canadian Nuclear Association.

A Waterloo electrical and computer engineering professor has been honoured with the Award of Merit for 2021 by the Chinese Canadian Professionals (Ontario) Education Foundation.

An online celebration this week honoured the achievements of outstanding alumni with awards in four categories and a supporter of engineering research and education.

Hosted by Mary Wells, dean of engineering, the event recognized an emergency room physician, the CEO of a company advancing the field of spectroscopy, the developer of a unique radiation therapy system, the inventors of technology that helps disabled children take their first steps, the creator of software to support disaster relief, and a valued friend of the Faculty.

A Waterloo School of Architecture professor is a member of a team that took silver in the main category of the North America section of the  Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction.

New technology developed by researchers at Waterloo Engineering could help doctors make the best use of limited resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their system uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify patients who require intensive care unit (ICU) treatment based on vital signs, blood test results, medical history and other data.

Mary Robinson was a Grade 7 student standing in a hallway of her Ottawa school when she heard about the Dec. 6, 1989 tragedy.

Only 11 years old at the time, Robinson recalls the “gut punch” she felt after finding out 14 women, mainly engineering students, were murdered during an anti-feminist rampage at École Polytechnique in Montreal.

Now an engineering lecturer, she served as associate director of first-year engineering for more than a decade before being appointed the Faculty’s first associate dean of outreach, equity and diversity earlier this year. 

Two former Waterloo Engineering students have made a prominent list of young luminaries from the worlds of business, sports and everything in between.

Apoorva Mehta, the founder of Instacart, and Alex Rodrigues, co-founder of Embark Technology, appear on a Hall of Fame 30 Under 30 list published this week by Forbes magazine.

Others on the list include LeBron James, Mark Zuckerberg, Rihanna, Malala Yousafzai, Kylie Jenner and Naomi Osaka.