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The 37th annual Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) was hosted by the University of Waterloo from January 29th-31, 2016. The competition included 16 Universities from across Ontario. The competitors are selected by different Universities through qualification events or other selection criteria. In the junior and senior design competitions, teams of four are given a previously undisclosed problem and the teams are required to design, build, demonstrate, and present a solution to a panel of judges. The time allocated for design, construction, and in creating a presentation is 6 hours.

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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.

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.

Uwaft LogoUWAFT performed extremely well at this year's EcoCAR 3 Competition that took place Seattle, WA May 29th to June 5th, 2015;  in what is by far the most competitive Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition yet.  UWAFT achieved the following resulting in over $10,000 U.S. in prize monies:

3rd Place Overall

1st Winter workshop stakeholder presentation

The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) annually recognizes outstanding engineers amongst the membership of its member societies, both academicand industry based members, at an awards gala. The 2014 award winners were presented at the CCTC2015 conference banquet held in the