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The winners of the Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award were recently announced along with the honorees of other major Faculty awards.

Jim Baleshta of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and Jenn Coggan of nanotechnology engineering are the inaugural recipients of the award introduced this year to honour the late Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering from July 1, 2012 to December 31, 2019.

Two researchers at Waterloo Engineering have made the semi-finals of a multi-year contest to develop new food production technologies and systems to sustain astronauts on long space missions.

An autonomous shuttle bus developed by engineering researchers is the focus of a feature story in the latest edition of Waterloo Magazine.

Dubbed the WATonoBus, the eight-seat vehicle is providing transit service on the University of Waterloo campus while research continues to refine and improve its self-driving technology.

Two fourth-year students at Waterloo Engineering are finalists for a national award for social entrepreneurs.

Peter Cornelisse and Lucas Godkin, who are both studying mechanical engineering, are among four entries still in the running for the $25,000 NU National Student Award for Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship.

Created to celebrate students making a commitment to social enterprise as well as their academic studies, the award will be handed out Nov. 18 at the virtual Pivot on Purpose Summit.

An autonomous trucking company that was founded by two Waterloo Engineering students just five years ago has gone public with a valuation of approximately US $5 billion.

In a deal that closed today, Embark Trucking merged with Northern Genesis 2, a special purpose acquistion company, to become Embark Technology Inc. with headquarters in San Francisco.

The merger means founders Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, both 26, hold shares worth hundreds of millions of dollars each.

A systems design engineering faculty member is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE NTC Distinguished Service Award by the IEEE Nanotechnology Technical Council.

A company that was founded by two alumni who met during their first year at Waterloo Engineering has developed the first autonomous robot to perform intramuscular injections.

Tim Lasswell (BASc ’14, mechanical engineering, MASc ’17, biomedical engineering) and Nima Zamani (BASc ’14, mechanical engineering, MASc ’17, mechatronics engineering) launched Cobionix in 2019 and operate out of Velocity, the flagship startup incubator at the University of Waterloo.

As a child, Waterloo Engineering alumnus Youssef Helwa (BASc ’15, nanotechnology engineering, MASc ’17, electrical engineering) was mesmerized by his mother’s stories about the patients she cared for as a surgeon.

Two former Waterloo Engineering students who launched a self-driving trucking company that is now poised to go public with an estimated valuation of more than US $5 billion have been honoured by a national business group in the United States.

Embark Trucks, which was founded by second-year mechatronics engineering classmates Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, recently received one of eight 2021 business achievement awards from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The late Pearl Sullivan, a former dean of Waterloo Engineering, and Carolyn Ren, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, are named among the top 100 most powerful women by the Women’s Executive Network.