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A new entrance scholarship has been established to support incoming students in the Management Engineering program and to recognize the lasting contributions of a founding faculty member.

The Shoukry Saleh Memorial Scholarship for Management Engineering recognizes academic excellence and reflects the lasting impact of Professor Shoukry Saleh, a founding member and former department chair of what is now the Department of Management Science and Engineering.

MSE students earned multiple awards at the 2025 Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Conference in Edmonton.  Waterloo students received Bronze Level Recognition, while undergraduates Matthew Chan, Adel Pazoki, Aniq Premji, Sunischit Thapa, and Larissa Troper were runners-up in the national Student Paper Competition.

Individual accolades went to Esma Akgun and Mina Torabi Milani, both earning runner-up awards for their research.

A paper by a team of Management Science and Engineering researchers recently received an Honorable Mention (Top 4 Finalist) at the prestigious POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Award. The paper addresses the challenge of hospital-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which affects approximately 20,000 Canadians annually.

A paper co-authored by Management Science and Engineering professor Lukasz Golab and his Data Science Master’s student Anastasiia Avksientieva won the best demo paper award at the 2025 International Conference on Extending Data Base Technology (EDBT).  

Management Sciences professors Samir Elhedhli, Fatma Gzara, and Mehrdad Pirnia were recently featured in an informative event that delivered practical insights for industry on the application of artificial intelligence to address supply chain challenges.

Dr. Kourosh Malek, a Management Sciences PhD alumnus and currently Head of AI and Data Analytics at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH was also a featured panelist. 

Mike Kirkup, Director of Waterloo's Velocity program, spoke to the Globe and Mail last Friday.