Catherine Booth becomes vice-chair of the Board of Governors. A Waterloo alumna, Booth graduated with a BASc in systems design engineering in 1988 and an MASc in management sciences in 1990. [Read more]
“Persuasive Health Technology to Improve Health and Wellbeing”
The maker movement — a global do-it-yourself culture of people who make things — has inspired a group of Waterloo Engineering students to create a soldering iron that’s safe and easy to use.
“We specifically designed the Solder Otter for the Maker Market,” said Vanessa Guido, a systems design engineering student and chief executive officer of Solder Otter. “We’ve had a lot of great feedback on our product.” [Read more]
Pebble is at it again.
The smartwatch company founded by Waterloo engineering grad Eric Migicovksy has set a new record for a Kickstarter campaign with the launch of its latest smartwatch, the Pebble Time.
Chris Eliasmith, Professor in the Departments of Philosophy, Systems Design Engineering and Computer Science and Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Neuroscience wins the NSERC John C. Polanyi Award that honours an individual or team whose Canadian-based research has led to a recent outstanding advance in the natural sciences or engineering. [Read more]
SYDE professor Hamid Tizhoosh's talk on " BIG Data, Medical Imaging and Machine Intelligence". [More]
Singspiel, a music learning mobile app, today announced the completion of a $350,000 seed round led by the MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund.[Read more]
One of our current 4B students, Amin Ghafelehbashi was selected into the 2015 Class of Young Entrepreneurs by The Next 36.
"Hard problems need a team of great people to solve them. This is one of the main reasons I love being in a technical field. I get to work with exceedingly interesting and smart people every day, both here at Waterloo and around the world." - Stacey Scott