News archive - March 2022

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Successfully pitching inventive projects

Impressing judges with projects ranging from a unique alternative to traditional cancer treatment to a high-performance e-bike that folds into the size of a backpack netted six senior-year engineering teams $10,000 each in the annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design contest.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Engineering student awarded Hydro One scholarship

Winnie Lin, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Waterloo is the recipient of one of 10 scholarships awarded by Hydro One to help encourage gender diversity within the utility and the electricity industry in general.

In addition to $5,000, she will be given the opportunity to complete a paid work term at the company as a winner of its Women in Engineering Scholarship.

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

A day in the life of a 3rd year Mechatronics Engineering student at Waterloo

Get to know Liz, a third-year Mechatronics student and early bird whose personal schedule and routines are crafted to keep her productive. Whether she’s on co-op with an aerospace company or studying for midterms with friends, she keeps it fun and rewarding.

Thursday, March 17, 2022

Former MME Student donates pay to support robotics, STEM

A former Waterloo Engineering student is giving up his 2022 salary and bonus at the multi-billion-dollar autonomous trucking company he co-founded to support youth robotics and STEM education.

Alex Rodrigues, who left the mechatronics engineering program at Waterloo to pursue his passion for self-driving vehicles in Silicon Valley, is CEO of Embark Trucks, which went public last year with an approximate valuation of US $5 billion.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022

ME Student and his team advances in contest to create a regenerative solution

An award-winning student project to reduce plastic waste has advanced to the semi-finals of the Wege Prize, a global competition for redesigning the way economies work.

Elijah Birley, a mechanical engineering student, Isabella Daneyko, a biomedical engineering student, and Carlton Darby, a chemical engineering student, are members of the Decomp team, which is developing an organic plastic waste disposal solution.