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Capstone Design award winners Sanhar Balachandran, Sadruddin Hashmani, Bainian Liu and Nabeel Shahid

Capstone Design awards help turn projects into businesses

EntrepreneurshipUnique Education By Beth Cotter|April 18, 2018
Winning teams for this year are hoping to continue in the tradition of successful Waterloo startups including Thalmic Labs, Athos and Voltera  

FIRST Robotics sparks interest in Management Engineering

Unique Education By Beth Cotter|March 21, 2018
FIRST Robotics sparks interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) programs and leads two competitors to study Management Engineering  

2018 Capstone Design Symposia begin March 12

Unique Education By Beth Cotter|March 7, 2018
Students are set to showcase the fourth-year design projects that are the culmination of their time and experiences at Waterloo Engineering  

Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race 2018

Unique Education By Carol Truemner|January 31, 2018
The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) is the largest student-run engineering competition in Canada.  
Anne Bordeleau and Scott Walbridge Architectural Engineering

Unique architectural engineering program launches

Unique Education By Carol Truemner|January 3, 2018
New architectural engineering undergraduate degree focuses on skills and knowledge required to design energy and structurally efficient buildings  
Autonomous car student design team in the Sedra Student Design Centre

Meet the Autonomous car student design team

Unique Education By Julie Stauffer|December 13, 2017
WATonomous, the autonomous car student design team are working to transform a Chevrolet Bolt as part of the AutoDrive Challenge  
Blueprint helps not-for-profits

Blueprint helps not-for-profits with tech

Unique Education By Carol Truemner|November 29, 2017
Blueprint partners with not-for-profit organizations to create technology such as websites, mobile applications and analysis tools — all free of charge  
oscar nespoli teaches graduate diploma in design

Preparing engineers to tackle complex design problems

Unique Education By Brian Caldwell|November 8, 2017
Program gives grad students both the tools and the mindset to strategically tackle complex design problems plus plenty of practice actually solving them  
Katarina Ilic of Voltera spoke hosted a booth at WUNC 2016.

Students pull off their own nanotechnology conference

Unique Education By Julie Stauffer|January 18, 2017
Annual event at Waterloo gives undergraduates exposure to the latest advances in a field where big things are expected from the very small.  
atrium

Engineering 7: Campaign update

EntrepreneurshipImpact ResearchUnique Education By Angela Pause|January 12, 2017
The $88 million Engineering 7 building received a funding boost on January 12, 2017 from the federal government with $32.6 million.  
Data Analytics Jobs

Data analytics program could help fill Canada’s big data talent gap

Unique Education By Shane Schick|December 19, 2016
A new Graduate Diploma in Data Analytics could be a stepping stone to prepare for data analytics jobs in a range of industries.  
Russell and Graham Giles pose with parts from past concrete toboggan and canoe entries.

Eyeing the chance to finally go downhill on concrete toboggan

Unique Education By Brian Caldwell|November 7, 2016
Annual races challenge student design team at the University of Waterloo to make the most of an unlikely material on snow and water.  
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