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When Jim Estill decided to sponsor 50 Syrian refugee families, he didn’t tell anyone about it at first—not his accountant, not his friends, not even his wife. It was the summer of 2015, and the death toll in Syria had reached a quarter of a million people, while another four million had fled the country. All summer long, the news reported horror stories of Syrians drowning in the Mediterranean. Humanitarian aid programs were being cut across the Middle East.[Read more]

Alexander Wong, a systems design engineering professor, and Javad Shafiee, a systems design engineering doctoral candidate, were honoured with the best paper award in the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference’s workshop on efficient methods for deep learning for their work in operational AI using evolutionary deep intelligence.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM EST

Now available to all Waterloo Engineering departments, the Palihapitiya/Lau Venture Creation Fund provides two $50,000 awards to University-selected Capstone Design teams whose intention is to transform their Capstone Design project into a promising startup post-graduation. 

Attend the info session to learn more.

1A SYDE & BME Design Fair on Friday December 2nd. The Fair will run from 2:30-5:30pm, and will be held on the 6th floor of E5. 

Students will present their SYDE / BME 161 and 101L projects. 3D prints for their projects are being done in our new maker space.

The University of Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team does it again. For the 4^th year in a row, the team earned Gold Standing at the competition. This year they brought home the Best Poster prize!