News archive - 2015

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

University of Waterloo invention wins International James Dyson Award

Voltera V-One, a custom circuit board printer developed by University of Waterloo engineering students, has taken top prize in this year’s International James Dyson Award competition, beating out a record 710 entries from 20 countries.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Mechanical Engineering professor highlights inspirational women

Professor Mary Wells has brought women into the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) spotlight with a new book called Women of Impact.

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Self-driving golf cart invented by University of Waterloo students

CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Sunday, July 26, 2015 10:23PM EDT 
Last Updated Sunday, July 26, 2015 10:29PM EDT

Self-driving cars may sound like a thing of the future, but two resourceful University of Waterloo students are making it happen. Just don’t expect a driverless commute quite yet.

Alex Rodrigues, 19, and Michael Skupien, 20, have rigged a golf cart with navigation technology that allows the vehicle to drive itself.

Monday, August 17, 2015

GRASP: A startup founded by MME students is competing for the Dyson Award

PIcture of the creator hold the grasp lock.

Local startups in running for Dyson Award

Waterloo Region Record

By Record staff

WATERLOO REGION — Two Waterloo Region startups are among the finalists in a prestigious international engineering competition.

Thursday, July 30, 2015

UW Robotics Teams sweeps this year's Robot Racing competition

The 2015 International Autonomous Robot Racing Challenge is now complete, and it was a very exciting event with multiple teams showing big gains in terms of racing autonomy. The weather was rather wet on Friday, but Saturday was gorgeous, sunny and hot, and we had a great day of drag and circuit racing. All teams demonstrated true autonomy on the drag course, and both Waterloo and Western completed the entire circuit course loop autonomously.