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Weihua Zhuang of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's electrical and computer engineering department is a new fellow of the prestigious Royal Society of Canada's (RSC) Academy of Science.

Canada's current wetland protection efforts have overlooked how the environment naturally protects fresh-water resources from agricultural fertilizer contaminants, engineering researchers from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's Water Institute have found.

Mariko Shimoda, a second-year mechanical engineering student at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, is the winner of a scholarship from the ) for the Ontario region. She is one of five remarkable women from regions across the country to receive the 2017 CEMF Undergraduate Women in Engineering Scholarship.

Thalmic Labs, a company founded by three À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering graduates, announced a series B raise of US $120 million today.

Leading the future of human-computer interaction with its Myo gesture control armband, the company has plans to further build out its workforce in Kitchener-À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and San Francisco, and accelerate development of new technologies and products. 

The investment was led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Investments Canada.

Jay Shah - a former startup co-founder and University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ alumnus - is the new director of Velocity, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s flagship entrepreneurship program. Shah joins Velocity from Google, where he worked since the tech-giant acquired BufferBox, the company he co-founded in 2012.

With only three minutes to pitch their company to a panel of judges, contestants at the Velocity Fund Finals (VFF) must be articulate and engaging, condensing complex ideas into understandable information.

And stakes are high.

A device that harvests ambient emissions from smartphones and converts them into power to run smart contact lenses has earned a team of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering students a third-place finish and a $4,500 US prize in an international design competition.

Fifty student teams vied for honours at the after being challenged to design and build power-harvesting devices capable of turning radio-frequency emissions into useful DC power.

Two electrical and computer engineering faculty members were named  on June 27.

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering and , a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, are collaborating on an entrepreneurship program that will see senior students and faculty receive early-stage venture support through pop up classes, mentorship and access to a $2 million venture capital fund.