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A former Waterloo Engineering student is giving up his 2022 salary and bonus at the multi-billion-dollar autonomous trucking company he co-founded to support youth robotics and STEM education.

Alex Rodrigues, who left the mechatronics engineering program at Waterloo to pursue his passion for self-driving vehicles in Silicon Valley, is CEO of Embark Trucks, which went public last year with an approximate valuation of US $5 billion.

An award-winning student project to reduce plastic waste has advanced to the semi-finals of the Wege Prize, a global competition for redesigning the way economies work.  

Elijah Birley, a mechanical engineering student, Isabella Daneyko, a biomedical engineering student, and Carlton Darby, a chemical engineering student, are members of the Decomp team, which is developing an organic plastic waste disposal solution.

An engineering undergraduate at the University of Waterloo who has dreamed of working in the space industry since she was a young girl took a big step in that direction today with her selection for a national fellowship program.

Elizabeth Drew, a third-year mechatronics engineering student, is one of 10 fellows in the inaugural class named by the Zenith Canada Pathways Foundation (ZCPF), a non-profit organization created to advance equity, diversity and inclusion in the space sector.

A recent mechanical graduate who earned financial backing through entrepreneurial programs at Waterloo Engineering is one of three alumni to make a national list of emerging leaders in business and academia.

Alumni Martin Basiri (MASc ’13, mechanical engineering), a co-founder and CEO of ApplyBoard achieved a spot on the 2022 list of 50 Changemakers published by the Globe and Mail.

In recent years, factories have been steadily modernizing their facilities with more automation and manufacturing capabilities. With faster and better additive manufacturing solutions that can custom-make durable parts in one piece without the expense of the tooling, a new and exciting chapter in digital manufacturing has begun. This shift has attracted a new generation of engineers back to the shop floor.

Serhiy Yarusevych of mechanical and mechatronics engineering recieves $180,000 for infrastructure for the analysis of multi-phase flows for airborne disease mitigation and pollution control.

Congratulations to Dr. Zhongchao (Chao) Tan for his accomplishment of being selected as a 2022 CSME Fellow (Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (CSME))for his “significant contributions” to the field of mechanical engineering.

A doctoral alumnus of Waterloo Engineering has won an international award to continue her research on crop stress in her native Jordan.

Michael Phillips and Phil Cooper, the two co-founders of Vena Medical, announced their first government approval this week for a device to remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients. The inflatable balloon temporarily restricts blood flow while surgeons use tools to remove the clot, increasing the chances of success on the first attempt.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded $100,000 for research on predictive tools to improve outcomes in invasive spine surgery.