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Waterloo student wins top co-op student of the year in Canada

Six students are honoured as the top co-op students in their Faculties at the University of Waterloo

Professor Kyle Daun has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. This is a monetary award given to an outstanding academic to continue his/her research in Germany for a period of up to 18 months.

Driving the hardware revolution:  Waterloo grad is helping to build a driverless car at Google [X]

SAE Baja team attended the competition at El Paso, Texas during April 24 to April 27 Since it was a long drive (3100 km), team left Waterloo on April 18and arrived there on April 23. They are currently on the way back (Louisiana yesterday). 11 members including myself (4 ME 4B, 2 MTE 3B, 1 ME 2A, 1 ME 1A, 1 Nano 1B, 1 Master, 1 Professor) attended.

Calvin Chu and Ashish Bidadi built the first prototype for their startup Palette in the machine shop at the University of Waterloo. Within months, the team was in China at HAXLR8R, one of the world’s top hardware startup incubators.

The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering, Canada’s largest engineering school and a leader in green energy research, will launch a graduate diploma in green energy to provide professional development for working engineers through real-time online learning.

Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo is the program of choice for students seeking an interdisciplinary education that is highly integrated and focused. The program was introduced in 2003 with an initial cohort of 120 students. Beginning in Fall 2014,  the program will accept an additional 45 students for a total of 165.