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.
UWAFT 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 Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) funding announced today will support two Waterloo Engineering research initiatives:
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
MME students outperform the competition at Formula Hybrid
Waterloo’s Formula Hybrid racing team edged out other top university race cars at this year’s Formula Hybrid International Competition taking first place overall in the competition.
