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Three À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering professors have been elected Fellows of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), one of the profession’s highest national honours.

Dr. Kankar Bhattacharya, Dr. Shesha Jayaram and Dr. Aiping Yu were among 57 new Fellows named this year, recognized for outstanding contributions to engineering in Canada and internationally. Their election reflects career-long excellence in research, innovation, mentorship and service.

A À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ spin-off company is changing Major League Baseball (MLB) with a pitching simulator that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to replicate the experience of batting against a real professional pitcher. 

Trajekt Sports was founded in 2019 by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering alumni Joshua Pope (BASc ’19) and Rowan Ferrabee (BASc ’19). Today, 30 professional baseball organizations around the world train with the company’s flagship product, the Trajekt Arc.

An electrical and computer engineering professor has received international recognition for advancing renewable energy research that supports more sustainable power systems worldwide.

Earlier this week, Dr. Claudio Cañizares was awarded the 2025 Power & Energy Society (PES) Ramakumar Family Renewable Energy Excellence Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his leadership in integrating renewable energy into complex energy infrastructures.

A startup company co-founded by two À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering graduates has secured US $4 million in seed funding to continue its growth in the construction industry.

Adaptis, launched in 2022 by Sheida Shahi (PhD ’21, civil engineering) and Aida Mollaei (PhD ’24, civil engineering), provides a decision-making platform to help owners, architects and engineers lower building costs, generate more design options, reduce project timelines and optimize operational costs.

Five professors from À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering have received Early Researcher Awards (ERA) from the Government of Ontario to support innovative, homegrown research that benefits Ontario’s workers and communities.

The Early Researcher Awards program supports early-career faculty members by providing funding to build research teams and pursue transformational research. Each recipient is awarded up to $140,000 over five years. The awards were announced as part of a $75 million provincial investment to advance research and innovation across Ontario.

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ-based femtech company CELLECT Laboratories Inc. delivered a winning business pitch and is now $44,000 closer to launching its innovative product that will replace the need for pap smears.

The company is led by two À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering master’s students — CT Murphy (chemical engineering) and Ibukun Elebute (business, entrepreneurship and technology). Its product, a sanitary pad that will collect fluids to screen for diseases such as cervical cancer, already has a waitlist.

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering professor Dr. Maud Gorbet has established a fund to provide biomedical engineering (BME) undergraduate students with learning opportunities outside the classroom.

The fund will help support the student-led Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), the annual BioTEC conference and undergraduate students’ travel costs to present their research at conferences.

A party of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering alumni, faculty members, students, staff and friends gathered to celebrate the launch of the Faculty’s Ring Road Lager, a special collaboration with Elora Brewing Company to mark 100 years of the iron ring. 

The limited-edition lager received rave reviews. A portion of the beer sales go towards the 100 Years of Canadian Engineering Fund to support future À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering students. 

A professor known for inspiring students to think differently has received the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s highest honour for teaching excellence.

Dr. Marc Hurwitz, a professor who teaches leadership and entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Engineering’s Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business, was named one of four recipients of the 2025 Distinguished Teacher Award. Hurwitz has been a faculty member at the Conrad School since 2014.

Researchers at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ have developed a new tutorial that explores the intersection between engineering and biology with a focus on microbial physiology.  

Led by Dr. Christian Euler and Dr. Matthew Scott, professors in the departments of Chemical Engineering and Mathematics, respectively, the tutorial is designed to help researchers move into new fields, bridge knowledge gaps for greater collaboration and support PhD studies.