Waterloo Engineering welcomes future students and their families to visit us to discover our undergraduate programs, campus, student life and more at this year's Fall Open House!
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Software engineering grad tackles the housing crisis
Bilal Akhtar, SE2019, is tackling the GTA housing crisis as part of MNTO (More Neighbours Toronto):
https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/software-engineering-grad-tackles-housing-crisis
Future undergraduate engineering students are invited to join us for an admissions-focused webinar that will focus on the admissions process and cover topics like how to apply, tips for your Admissions Information Form (AIF), and more!
Our panellists will include our Director/Associate Director of Admissions as well as current students who successfully went through the process themselves.
Waterloo wins 2021 ICPC North America Division Championship, advances to 45th ICPC World Finals
Waterloo won the 2021 ICPC North America Division Championship, and advances to 45th ICPC World Finals. ICPC is the International Collegiate Programming Contest. Waterloo's team includes 4A SE student Wesley Leung, and solved 12 problems in contest. No other competitor solved more than 9 problems.
SE Capstone Team Hyperbeam (Tutturu) Wins $50K Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund
SE 2021 Capstone Team Hyperbeam (formerly Tutturu) won the $50K Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund, to help fund their startup. The team consists of SE students Philip Scott, Amby Balaji, Declan Goncalves, and former SE student Keer Liu (now BCS). Hyperbeam is a shared web browser that allows friends to watch videos and surf the web together from different locations. They have over 1 million users, including over 170,000 who are active each month.
SE alumnus founds VaccineHunters
SE2016 alumnus Josh Kalpin is part of the volunteer "vaccine hunter" team that has created a Twitter account to inform people of available vaccine appointments. The City of Toronto has partnered with them to disseminate information to the public.
SE2022 Startup Wins Velocity Concept $5k
Arbitrium, a startup by SE2022 student Ahmed Hamodi and BCS student Greg Maxin, recently won $5k in the Velocity Concept pitch competition. Arbitrium is a digital end-to-end decision-making platform that allows organizations to make unbiased group decisions about charitable donations that involve multiple stakeholders.
SE Capstone Project Wins $10k Esch Award
SE 2021 Capstone project Yada (Yet Another Docs App) was one of six projects in the Faculty of Engineering to win the $10k Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Award. Congratulations Aravind Segu, Carl Shen, Shehan Suresh and Akshay Pall!
Waterloo Takes First Place in ICPC Regionals
Waterloo Black, including SE's own Wesley Leung, won first at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) regional competition for East Central North America, competing against 67 teams from Carnegie Mellon, Purdue, University of Toronto, Ohio State, and University of Michigan, along with other universities across Ontario, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Indiana. Congratulations!
WATORACE wins 4th in Indy Autonomous Challenge Virtual Race #3
WATORACE, including SE's own Kyle Anderson, won 4th place in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) virtual race #3, also capturing the Rising Star Award. The IAC brings together 18 university teams from 11 countries on 4 continents in the world’s first head-to-head, high-speed autonomous race at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS).
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