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Incoming engineering student starts his studies at Waterloo backed by a $100,000 scholarship

For the second year in a row, a winner of a prestigious national scholarship has chosen to study systems design engineering at the University of Waterloo.

Malik Dahel of Montreal started his academic career at Waterloo Engineering this fall as a 2021 Loran Scholar backed by up to $100,000 over four years for living expenses, tuition, summer work opportunities and other benefits.

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) welcomed incoming undergraduate students with First Year Design Dayz.

SYDE and BME students kicked off their undergraduate degree programs with Design Dayz, a department orientation tradition in its sixth year. Each Design Dayz offers new activities, with the core goals of community building, teamwork, and design culture.

Deep-learning AI techniques can identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy

Researchers have made a key advancement in the development of technology to automatically analyze video of hockey games using artificial intelligence.

Engineers at the University of Waterloo combined two existing deep-learning AI techniques to identify players by their sweater numbers with 90-per-cent accuracy.

This year’s incoming class of Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) students will be navigating their first semester at the University of Waterloo alongside visitors from the far-off planet TsTs.

New, patented technology in Christie M 4K25 RGB projector stemmed from Christie & University of Waterloo collaboration.

Christie^® and the University of Waterloo’s Vision and Image Processing Lab are celebrating a new milestone – the development and productization of the patented algorithm that drives the resolution enhancement of

John Edison Muñoz Cardona joined the Department of System Design Engineering as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2019.

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) PhD student Ryan Tennant developed an app to improve workflow in vaccine clinics. 

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) welcomed new students to our graduate programs this week. To conclude the orientation sessions, the students gathered for an outdoor coffee chat on some of Waterloo’s greenspace. Thanks to the orientation organizers (and the weather) for making this event possible!

Welcome SYDE grad students! 

Systems Design Engineering (SYDE) student awarded Schulich Leader Scholarship, a national undergraduate STEM scholarship. 

Clearco challenges the status-quo with unbiased investment opportunities for entrepreneurs.

From about the age of 10, Andrew D’Souza (BASc ’08) began to think of inventive ways to earn money. An early entrepreneur, whose family immigrated to Canada from India, D’Souza started providing services like paper-delivery, lawn mowing and dog walking to his neighbours. Later, he took on part-time jobs to save for university because he wanted to avoid debt.