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A study of more than 2,000 streams around North America supervised by a Waterloo Engineering professor found that those altered by human activity are at greater risk of flooding.

The study analyzed the seasonal flow patterns of 2,272 streams in Canada and the U.S. and found that human-managed streams – those impacted by developments like dams, canals, or heavy urbanization – had significantly different flow patterns compared to streams in natural watersheds.

An award-winning student project to reduce plastic waste has advanced to the semi-finals of the Wege Prize, a global competition for redesigning the way economies work.  

Elijah Birley, a mechanical engineering student, Isabella Daneyko, a biomedical engineering student, and Carlton Darby, a chemical engineering student, are members of the Decomp team, which is developing an organic plastic waste disposal solution.

An engineering undergraduate at the University of Waterloo who has dreamed of working in the space industry since she was a young girl took a big step in that direction today with her selection for a national fellowship program.

Elizabeth Drew, a third-year mechatronics engineering student, is one of 10 fellows in the inaugural class named by the Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation (ZCPF), a non-profit organization created to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in the space sector.

Fueled by passion for the final frontier, UW Orbital is building a satellite members hope will someday blast off into space.

The year-old student team is working on CubeSat, a fully functioning satellite, for research in earth-centred orbit, called Eternium-III, and to compete in 2023’s Canadian Satellite Design Challenge.

A company founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus was recently awarded $3.5 million in startup funding through a federal agency that invests in new clean technologies.

Pulse Industrial, a $25,000 winner in 2018 at the Velocity Fund Finals pitch competition at the University of Waterloo, was one of 16 companies across the country to receive investments from Sustainable Development Technology Canada.

A recent graduate who earned financial backing through entrepreneurial programs at Waterloo Engineering is one of three alumni to make a national list of emerging leaders in business and academia.

Hannah Sennik (BASc ’19, systems design engineering) is a co-founder and CEO of Rekammend, a startup with a word-retrieval application to give patients who’ve suffered strokes or traumatic brain injuries their voices back.

Ning Jiang has an early memory of visiting the hospital where his parents worked in China and seeing someone walking with the aid of a prosthetic. This experience and others he had as the son of two physicians led Jiang to begin thinking how technology could be used for good.

A systems design engineering professor at the University of Waterloo, Jiang is fascinated with devices and technology that can enhance human health and the way people experience the world around them.

Zhongchao Tan has been selected as a 2022 fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME) for his “significant contributions” to the field of mechanical engineering.

In recent years, factories have been steadily modernizing their facilities with more automation and manufacturing capabilities. With faster and better additive manufacturing solutions that can custom-make durable parts in one piece without the expense of the tooling, a new and exciting chapter in digital manufacturing has begun. This shift has attracted a new generation of engineers back to the shop floor.

It has been a long but rewarding journey since Sebastian Fischmeister first hit on the concept of using involuntary emissions such as power consumption as a window into the workings of computer systems.

Early work on the idea as a means of debugging programs without shutting them down earned the electrical and computer engineering professor a best paper award soon after he came to the University of Waterloo.