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Researchers at Waterloo Engineering are developing new technology that would free people with diabetes from painful finger pricks to monitor their blood sugar.

A team led by professor George Shaker has combined radar and artificial intelligence (AI) to detect changes in glucose levels without the need to draw blood several times a day.

Tapping the power of artificial intelligence (AI) is at the heart of several new initiatives at Waterloo Engineering, including an institute to foster collaboration with industry partners and an option for high-achieving undergraduate students.

While building on expertise developed at Waterloo in the last several decades, the initiatives recognize and anticipate the tremendous potential of AI technology to evolve, improve and expand in the future.

More than two years after graduating, David Au-Yeung (BASc '04), Matthew Cheung (BASc '04), David Meyers (BASc '04) and Wehuns Tan (BASc '04) were all putting their engineering degrees to good use at good jobs in the working world.

But that wasn’t what they really wanted.

Close friends since their first year of Waterloo’s computer engineering program, the foursome from the Toronto area still had their sights set on becoming entrepreneurs.

A medical startup has developed cutting-edge imaging technology that has the potential to detect skin cancer without leaving a mark.

Elucid Labs uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology in a small non-invasive imaging device to analyze moles and other skin lesions for signs of skin cancer, helping dermatologists make faster, more accurate decisions and reducing the number of unnecessary biopsies.

It’s official!  Monday, October 29, 2018 is the Grand Opening of Engineering 7.

Attached to both E5 and E6, this seven-storey, 242,000-square-foot building will be a new vibrant home for students, faculty, research facilities and staff.

As a student of the inaugural Waterloo management engineering class, Kynan Gallagher (BASc '12) credits the program’s curriculum, his co-op work experience and classroom connections for landing the customer success lead position at a Kitchener educational platform company in 2014.

Jim Estill (BASc '80) received an international heroism award for what he believes was just doing what is right – sponsoring Syrian refugee families.

The Waterloo Engineering alumnus was one of 10 honoured with the Everyday Hero Award of the Global Campaign Against Extremism and Intolerance during a gala dinner held at the New York Public Library in New York City.

As a young girl, Pampa Dey lived with her parents and two siblings in a small one-room house in the remote village of Ranibandh, India where a kerosene lamp was often the only source of light. Starting at the tender age of 10, she worked as a part-time cashier in her father’s small sweet shop to help support her family.