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From experience holding elected student office to volunteer roles in the community, Mariko Shimoda leaves with a lot more than an undergraduate degree as she officially graduates from Waterloo Engineering this week.

The mechanical engineering student found time during her academic career to rack up an impressive list of extracurricular accomplishments and land a full-time job at her last co-op employer.

A nanotechnology engineering doctoral student is a recipient of this year’s prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.

Asif Abdullah Khan was awarded the scholarship for his research that focuses on developing next-generation sustainable power sources for designing self-powered micro/nanosystems for aerospace applications.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been recognized as one of the top young engineers in manufacturing in Canada and the United States.

Mihaela Vlasea was honoured by SME, an association for the advancement of manufacturing professionals, academia and communities, with one of 15 awards for high achievers in the field.

A biotechnology company co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering alumnus has been awarded almost $300,000 in government funding to develop a portable diagnostic test for COVID-19.

Nicoya, a Kitchener-based provider of advanced analytical instruments for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, grew out of a Capstone Design project by nanotechnology engineering student Ryan Denomme (BASc ’10, MASc ’12).

The funding is part of a challenge issued by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the National Research Council of Canada.

A master's student at Waterloo Engineering won a best paper award at a recent international conference on biomedical optics.

Saad Abbasi works in the PhotoMedicine Labs at Waterloo and is supervised by Parsin Haji Reza, a professor of systems design engineering.

His work on a method to visualize microscopic tissue structure without contact or staining prior to examination was recognized as the best student paper at the 2020 Optical Society of America Biophotonics Congress.

Two graduates of Waterloo Engineering are developing an at-home testing kit for COVID-19 after answering a design challenge by the federal government.

Kamyar Ghofrani and James MacLean, who graduated two years apart from the nanotechnology engineering program, teamed up with Monica Hoang, a doctoral pharmacy student at Waterloo, at startup company Serapsis Labs.

“We brainstormed, came up with a few different ideas - some better than others - and within a week we had a design," Ghofrani said.

The senseless killing of George Floyd on a Minneapolis street has shaken society and forced people the world over to take a hard, honest look at anti-Black racism. Rest assured the impact has been keenly felt in the Faculty of Engineering, and we have heard our students as they ask what we are prepared to do to address this issue. As an educational community we have a responsibility to identify and report racism and then work to dismantle it and not remain comfortable with the status quo.

Anne Allen, a civil and environmental engineering lab technician, is the recipient of the Engineering Society’s Teaching Excellence award for the winter 2020 term.

Troy Stevenson (BASc ’15, Chemical) has become the eighth full-time head coach of the University of Waterloo’s men’s basketball program.

He was the interim head coach last season after spending the previous four seasons as an assistant coach.

An incoming student at Waterloo Engineering will start his studies this fall with $70,000 in backing from a national, four-year scholarship.

Chinemerem Chigbo of Winnipeg is one of 20 cross-country recipients of 2020 TD Scholarships for Community Leadership in recognition of outstanding contributions to change in their communities.