Douglas Wright, the founding dean of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering and the third president and vice-chancellor of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, has died at the age of 92.
Wright, who played a major role in the development of both the Faculty and the University, passed away at home Thursday while surrounded by his family.
Engineering professor Zhou Wang will lead a new research partnership between the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ and entertainment technology company TiVo.
The partnership is scheduled to begin with a project involving the investigation of methods to enhance user quality-of-experience for 360-degree omnidirectional video on head-mounted devices.
Three students at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering were recently recognized for finding and analyzing important problems affecting their employers during co-op work terms.
Charvi Choudhary, Samuel Muller and Sharan Dev Shankar were among five campus-wide 2019 Co-op Problem Award recipients honoured by The Problem Lab, a program that fosters disruptive innovation.
Three projects led by À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering professors have each won $250,000 in funding through a federal competition designed to bring disciplines together to explore new research directions.
Parsin Haji Reza, Sushanta Mitra and Valerie Ward all made successful bids to the New Frontiers in Research Fund through the 2019 Exploration program to promote risk-taking and innovation.
They were among eight successful applications campus-wide at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. Across the country, $46.3 million was awarded over two years to support 186 research projects.
Teachers in Pakistan have an extensive online resource to draw on during the coronavirus pandemic thanks to hundreds of graduate students at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering.
The students have spent more than three years building an online library of over 15,000 videos, assignments and exercises that follow the national curriculum by grade and subject.
With children forced to stay home because of the COVID-19 crisis, teachers are now using the library to prepare lessons they can send to their students by email.
A health care startup company founded by two À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering graduate students took first place and the US $25,000 top prize in a recent pitch contest in Africa.
Folake Owodunni and Maame Yaa Afriyie Poku launched after meeting in the master of business, entrepreneurship and technology (MBET) program at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.
The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ announced today that it will take a combined approach to the upcoming fall term in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That means all large classes will be held online, with in-person delivery of some small classes and supports if conditions allow and with strict adherence to social distancing guidelines.
Two startup companies with ties to À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering were among the recipients this week of $30,000 in seed funding and mentorship for their efforts related to COVID-19.
In all, eight companies won backing through the AC Jumpstart program at the and FedDev Ontario in a 10-month program to drive innovative business growth in southern Ontario to support outbreak recovery and enable expansion following the pandemic.
A fourth-year biomedical engineering student has been recognized as the top À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering co-op student for his work with an organization dedicated to improving health care in East Africa.
Eric Jihoon Song worked as a software developer during spring term last year at on an application to allow customers in Kenya to buy needed pharmaceuticals.
Park Reilly, a long-time À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ chemical engineering professor, died earlier this month, just 12 days shy of turning 100.
, who joined the University in 1967, was a respected scholar engaged in research and teaching on the application of statistics in engineering.