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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Waterloo students put their stamp on Engineering 7

by Kira Vermond, Faculty of Engineering

Engineering 7 at night
Back in early 2014, David Birnbaum found himself sitting in on meetings with some of the Waterloo Engineering’s most influential leaders. On the table for discussion? The new Engineering 7 (E7) building, an $88-million, 242,000-gross-square-foot, seven-storey structure and possible game-changer for more than 8,500 engineering undergraduates and graduates.

Drone flying towards sunset
Sunday, February 15, 2015

All-weather drones are eyes in the sky during disasters

by Julie Stauffer, Faculty of Engineering

When a 7.8-magnitute earthquake hit Nepal in April 2015 Aeryon Labs Inc. provided aerial support to disaster relief teams on the ground. In 2014 when Typhoon Hagupit hammered the eastern Philippines, it ripped up trees, overturned buildings, flooded roads and forced thousands of people to flee their ruined homes. To deliver aid, relief organizations first had to navigate the chaos.