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Systems Design Engineering professor Alexander Wong and the students at the Vision and Image Proccessing Research Group gives a tour to showcase their research and technologies to the Honorable Navdeep Bains, the Federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development.

A third-year biomedical engineering student who learned Portuguese during a work term has been named one of the University of Waterloo’s top co-op students for 2017.

Vincent Shadbolt, who lists involvement with the Waterloo Dragon Boat Team as one of his interests, got the nod for the Faculty of Engineering for his contributions to his employer, his community and the development of co-operative education.

Systems Design Engineering professor Alexander Wong spoke about the impact of Artificial Intelligence and the importance of guiding its direction for helping society at the recent Waterloo Innovation Summit 2018.

A leading international researcher is joining Waterloo Engineering as part of a federal initiative to attract top-tier scientists and scholars to do groundbreaking work in Canada.

At the annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards, two teams from Systems Design Engineering won prizes this year: 

- PhysioBuddy (Shirley Ng, Kassandra Predovic, Ritu Shah, Elizaveta Vorobieva) won $10,000, and 

- Hiza (Sanhar Balachandran, Sadruddin Hashmani, Bainian Liu, Nabeel Shahid) won $3,000. 

Dean’s Honor List students for their Spring & Fall 2017 academic terms (1A BME, 2B BME, 1B SYDE, 3A SYDE, 4A SYDE).

Our SYDE-BME women - identifying students, staff, and faculty came together to celebrate International Women's Day. We are so proud of the amazing contributions that they make to our SYDE-BME Community and beyond. 

March 8th is International Women's Day! In celebration we will be having a gathering of all women, female-identifying students/faculty in SYDE& BME. There will be a group photo OP at 11:45(SHARP) on the 6^th floor of E5. Our SYDE staff are starting us off with their own group photo. Post a picture with your Women's Day spirit hashtag  #PressForProgress #SYDE_BME

The government of Canada announced the supercluster awards today.  Of the five awards across Canada, Waterloo Engineering is playing leading roles in *two* of them, which is really quite a remarkable achievement.

Full announcement here.

Retired Engineering professor George Soulis died on January 19 at the age of 92.