A robot designed to safely defuse landmines without an explosion was one of six major winners at the 2016 Norman Esch Capstone Design Awards competition for University of Waterloo engineering students.
Landmine Boys’ five founders are mechanical engineering students who will graduate this spring. Their impressive pitch won them $10,000 to help cover startup and other costs.
The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16.
Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.
2016 Canadian Engineering Competition - Compétition Canadienne D'ingénierieThe 2016 Canadian Engineering Competition took place at McGill University on March 3rd-6th.
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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Professor Mary Wells has brought women into the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) spotlight with a new book called Women of Impact.
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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.
WATERLOO REGION — Two Waterloo Region startups are among the finalists in a prestigious international engineering 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.
Carolyn Hansson is named as a new Member of the 
Order of Canada for her contributions as a materials engineer whose efforts have reduced corrosion and improved the performance of reinforced concrete structures.