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The home of robotics research at Waterloo Engineering is one of ten new technology development sites in Ontario created to help drive innovation in four key sectors – mining, construction, agri-food and advanced manufacturing.

Through a provincial program called Critical Industrial Technologies (CIT), facilities and expertise at RoboHub will be made available to small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) to develop, test and showcase technology products and services.

This year's Capstone Design Symposia at the University of Waterloo showcased over 350 innovative student-led projects built to solve real-world problems. Many of the projects showed impressive entrepreneurial acumen and the potential for commercialization.  

Thanks to invaluable support from donors and industry partners, 45 student teams won financial awards to help them develop their project designs, laying the groundwork for these students to take their business ideas even further. 

An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Waterloo is pioneering innovative methods to measure and mitigate harmful methane emissions.

Led by Dr. Kyle Daun, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the team is using a hyperspectral camera, or “Hyper-Cam,” to measure methane emissions at a landfill site in the Waterloo Region. Landfills account for about 20% of Canada's methane emissions.

A research team of Waterloo Engineering graduate students is working on a range of health-tech applications from cancer diagnostics to wearable medical devices.  

Led by Dr. Carolyn Ren, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the Waterloo Microfluidics Lab (WML) develops and supports commercialized research that aims to improve the delivery of health care, including compression therapy for medical and athletic use.

A Waterloo Engineering researcher is part of an international coalition revolutionizing health-care delivery by developing technology for fast, on-site vaccine production.

Dr. Valerie Ward, a chemical engineering professor, plays a critical role in the coalition —her research focuses on ensuring vaccine purity during the autonomous manufacturing process.  

X-ray technology developed by a Waterloo Engineering spinoff company blasted into space this week as part of a private mission aboard a SpaceX rocket.

The flagship X-ray device made by KA imaging was selected for the Fram2 mission, a partnership of academic institutions and private companies with a four-person crew, for its portability and accuracy.

University of Waterloo students have built one of the fastest-growing local chapters of an international maker collective called Socratica. More than 2,500 students gathered at the 2025 symposium in Waterloo to build, innovate, design, engineer and collaborate.

The organization was founded in 2022 and has since involved hundreds of volunteers from a variety of disciplines. Its success stems from harnessing the Waterloo entrepreneurial ethos and inviting thousands of students from multiple disciplines to make magic together.

A third-year student in the biomedical engineering program has been recognized as the co-operative education student of the year for Waterloo Engineering.

Jarett Dewbury was cited for his contributions during a co-op term with the Tadesse Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering is renowned for its entrepreneurial graduates. No surprise then that the Waterloo region is home to a number of successful startups with global reach and local impact.

Alchemy, Avidbots and Miovision are just three examples of local businesses that were founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni— namely, Chong Shen (BASc ’13) and Khanjan Desai (BASc ’13); Pablo Molina (BASc ’11) and Faizan Sheikh (BASc ’11); and Kurtis McBride (BASc ’04, MASc ’07), respectively. All three have contributed to putting the Waterloo region on the map as Canada’s tech capital.

Four Waterloo Engineering researchers have been awarded close to $5 million through the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Program to support transformative research.

Among the recipients are Waterloo Engineering professors Dr. Duane Cronin, Dr. David Fortin, Dr. Evelyn Yim and Dr. Mahla Poudineh.