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A team of former engineering students from the University of Waterloo has made a shortlist of finalists in a high-profile international invention competition.

Scope, which is developing a better zoom function for smartphones and other applications, is one of 20 teams from countries around the world still in the running for the 2020 James Dyson Award.

Backed by a new funding program, postdoctoral researcher Edris Madadian is designing innovative technology to remove contaminants from sewage sludge, the main by-product from wastewater treatment plants.

Yesterday we heard the extremely sad news that Jason Arbour, a second-year Computer Engineering student, had died. There are no words to express the deep sadness I felt when I heard this news. I spoke to Jason’s family this morning and heard from his father Kerry about what a thoughtful, adventuresome and kind person Jason was. In Kerry’s words, although Jason was only 20 years old he had lived a very full life.

Jason’s parents, Kerry and Anne, asked me to share the following message with our community:

A company founded by three Waterloo Engineering students 15 years ago will receive a national honour next week for its innovative approach to traffic management.

Miovision is the 2020 recipient of the Innovator of the Year award given out annually by the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX) to a company that “disrupts and transforms an industry in profound ways.”

Air Canada plans to test COVID-19 contact tracing technology that researchers at Waterloo Engineering helped develop.

William Melek and Patricia Nieva, both mechanical and mechatronics engineering professors, and a team of students have been working with Facedrive, a Toronto-based company, on an application and wearable devices that use artificial intelligence (AI) and Bluetooth technologies.

A local entrepreneur has established new funding opportunities for undergraduate women at Waterloo Engineering.  

Janét Aizenstros, founder and chair of Kitchener-based Ahava Group Global, a women-led modern media parent company, has started a scholarship and an award she describes as providing “a launching pad for future generations of women.” 

Waterloo Engineering is the top engineering school in Canada for 2021 according to an influential annual ranking program.

In results released today, Maclean’s magazine placed Waterloo in a first-place tie with engineering at the University of Toronto based on program and research reputation.

That moves Waterloo up two spots from the Maclean’s rankings for the previous two years. Those ratings also included bibliometric data on research publications.

A graduate student at Waterloo Engineering is the inaugural winner of a new scholarship for women in the field of quantum information science.

Cindy Yang, who is doing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, has had a passion for acoustic and superconducting waves since learning how to make photonic devices.

Three new Waterloo Engineering undergraduates are starting their studies with financial backing from a local scholarship program for Black students.

Tahjeira Cameron, Carlton Darby and Dagmawit Worku are among 10 recipients of awards of $1,000 to $1,500 from the Waterloo Region chapter of the Congress of Black Women and the Caribbean Canadian Association of Waterloo Region.

Today we acknowledge the passing of 2^nd year Nanotechnology Engineering student Jaya Gupta and offer our deepest sympathies to her family, friends and peers.

Jaya was such an inspiration as she faced her very personal battle with cancer with both strength and courage. She shared with many that being a Waterloo engineering student was the absolute proudest accomplishment of her life and being a graduate of the program was a key achievement for her.