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Student team finishes second in Solar Decathlon with house designed for Indigenous family

By Brian Caldwell

Faculty of Engineering

After three years of hard work, members of the Warrior Home design team were thrilled to finish second overall this week in an international competition that challenges university students to design and build highly efficient buildings.

Student Design Team Info Session 
Friday, February 5, 2021 @ 7:00 PM (ET)

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University Rover Challenge hosted by the Mars

For the third consecutive year the UW Robotics Team was invited to attend the University Rover Challenge, one of 36 team selected from 84 applicants representing 13 countries. To obtain the invite, UW Robotics had their highest ever Systems Acceptance Review score of 87 points, well over 5 points clear of the team’s previous record.

Student team steels itself for national competition

This is an excerpt of an article originally published on the Engineering website.

Sinking, literally, before moving forward

The Faculty’s Sedra Student Design Centre also provides a safe environment to experiment and take risks. Waterloo’s three-year-old Submarine Racing Team can attest to that.

It was in Maryland last year that members experienced the true meaning of the team’s tagline: Everything is simple, until you go underwater.

The Race to Zero is an annual competition, open to students and faculty from any interested collegiate institution.

The Waterloo Rocketry Team is composed solely of undergraduate students passionate about rocket engineering.