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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.

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 29^th to June 5^th, 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.   

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering's very own graduate student, Elahe Jabari, has been chosen as one of the top ten University of Waterloo finalists for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.

We encourage everyone to cheer on Elahe during the final competition which will be held on Thursday, April 2, from 2:30 until 4:30 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall.

For more information on the 3MT Competition please visit their main website.

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.