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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.

Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions (AVTC) program announces the establishment of new Department of Energy faculty fellowship that is applicable only to EcoCAR 2 lead faculty advisors.

Dr. Roydon Fraser will be awarded the DOE Applied Automotive Engineering Fellowship this academic year in recognition of his contributions to the AVTC Applied Automotive Engineering Curriculum Project (AAECP).  This fellowship includes a $10,000 gift that the advisor may use toward the university’s AVTC program.

DR. GERALD E. SCHNEIDER WINS AIAA 2013 THERMOPHYSICS AWARD

Honored for a Variety of Accomplishments in the Field of Heat Transfer

Reducing weight and fuel consumption while ensuring safety in mid-size cars is one of three initiatives led by University of Waterloo researchers that received major government funding today.

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) announced that the Automotive Partnership Canada program will provide $4.9 million in support of three projects being driven by Waterloo Engineering researchers who are part of WatCAR, the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Automotive Research.