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The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.

Robert Amelard, a PhD student in SYDE, was on the popular science TV show Daily Planet on the Discovery Channel to showcase and demonstrate the breakthrough research on non-contact imaging of blood flow by Robert and his supervisors Alexander Wong, Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems, and David Clausi, both of the Vision and Image Processing Research Group in SYDE.

Screencaps of the TV segment are found below (Credit: Daily Planet, Discovery Channel)

The Engineering Institute of Canada is pleased to announce the 2016 recipients of its senior awards and fellowship inductees. The senior awards of the EIC are the highest distinctions made by the Institute and are awarded to deserving engineering members of its technical societies.

Four recipients will be presented with senior medals at the 2016 Awards Gala ceremony in recognition of their outstanding achievements or service to the engineering profession. In addition, 20 engineers will be inducted as EIC Fellows for their exceptional contributions to engineering in Canada.

The University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, has built a new research center dedicated to the development of greener and intelligent vehicle technologies

Breakthrough research on non-contact imaging of blood flow by Robert Amelard, a PhD student, and Alexander Wong, Canada Research Chair in Medical Imaging Systems, both of SYDE, have been featured in a number of news outlets both locally and internationally.  Using patent-pending technology called Coded Hemodynamic Imaging, the developed device is the first portable system that monitors a patient's blood flow at multiple arterial points simultaneously and without direct contact with the skin.

‘This issue needed some leadership’

Guelph Mercury Newsmaker of the Year: Jim Estill

​GUELPH — As a teenager Jim Estill had to give up his bedroom to Ugandan refugees.

He wasn't immediately happy with his parents' decision to open the Estill home in Woodstock up to two young men who were among the tens of thousands expelled from Uganda in 1972 by dictator Idi Amin. [Read more].

Dean's Honour List winners and Work Report Winners of BME & SYDE students.

A presentation of design solutions and prototypes that attempt to solve global health and engineering design problems in developing nations:

- indoor air quality

- water access and transportation

- medical access and transportation

- many more

Friday, Nov, 27th,  2:30 - 5:00 pm

UW Main Campus E5 - 6th Floor

See the poster.

The Kitchener-Waterloo area is a hub of innovation. From Research in Motion, to Google, some of the smartest people in the world congregate here. At the University of Waterloo, science and sport go hand in hand, and Dr. Kristine Dalton is helping athletes perform better and recover smarter at theSchool of Optometry & Vision Science.

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As he cruised past cheering crowds in Naples, Italy, earlier this year, Pope Francis received an unexpected gift. A local pizzeria owner jogging alongside the papal car jumped over a barrier and handed Francis a pizza, which the smiling pope willingly accepted.