Waterloo Engineering placed three subject areas in the top 20 and a total of six in the top 50 in world rankings released this week by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
University of Waterloo students may soon be able to order pizza or a burger from a nearby plaza and have it brought to campus by Canada’s first all-weather autonomous delivery robot.
LoopX, a Waterloo Engineering startup company that is developing the technology to do just that, received a $30,000 funding boost recently when it took top prize in the 5G Transportation Challenge sponsored by Rogers and the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network.
A professor at Waterloo Engineering helped develop a map showing which regions and population centres of Western Canada are likely to experience earthquakes induced by underground energy extraction.
The Department of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) is saddened to announce the passing of Professor Koncay Huseyin on June 2, 2022, at the age of 85.
More than three decades after leaving to make his mark on the world, an alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has been formally honoured by his Ontario hometown for his athletic achievements.
A mural of Taly Williams (BASc ’94, civil engineering), who played for the Waterloo Warriors before suiting up in the Canadian Football League (CFL), was unveiled recently on the wall of the local arena along with other successful athletes from Haliburton.
Students from Waterloo Engineering made a mark again as the Concept 5k pitch event for aspiring entrepreneurs was staged in-person today after COVID-19 forced a move to a virtual format more than two years ago.
Spectators packed the Student Life Centre as teams featuring engineering members took three of the four $5,000 prizes up for grabs when nine finalists gave three-minute presentations to a panel of judges.
Brigette Lau (BASc ’99, computer engineering) is the co-founder of a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, a poker player and mother to three children. She’s also a self-described introvert with deep expertise investing in early-stage technology.
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, Lau was thrilled to get a job at a big-box store and doubted that she ever needed to go to university. Her parents, however, had other ideas: “I grew up as an immigrant in Canada” Lau says.
Waterloo Engineering alumnus Martin Basiri (MASc ’13, mechanical engineering) – co-founder of Kitchener-based education powerhouse ApplyBoard – has been recognized by professional services firm EY Canada as one of the top entrepreneurs in the province.
Basiri, who came to study at Waterloo from his native Iran and later helped his brothers, Meti and Massi, come to Canada for school as well, is one of seven Ontario winners of EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards for 2022.
A company that was co-founded by an alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has secured $4 million in backing from the federal government to help commercialize new green energy technology.
Clear Blue Technologies, which is headed by CEO and co-founder Miriam Tuerk (BASc ’85, electrical engineering), was launched in 2011 to bring smart, clean, renewable, efficient and cost-effective power to billions of people who still lack access to reliable power.
A lecturer at Waterloo Engineering collaborated on development of an interactive computer game to help students learn the mechanisms of the cap-and-trade system.
Jason Grove, a lecturer in chemical engineering, partnered on the project with Neil Randall, executive director of the Games Institute at the University of Waterloo, and Alex Fleck, a doctoral candidate at the institute.