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Travis Ratnam (BASc ’06. electrical engineering) remembers the first time he felt self-conscious about his grades.

In elementary school, the classroom bully went through everyone’s report cards, “trying to figure out who the dumbest kid was and concluded it was me,” he says.

Ratnam is using lessons learned from that early setback to help other children as the co-founder and CEO of , a software platform that uses artificial intelligence to help teachers uncover each student’s unique learning needs.

Tony Capel (BASc ’70 and MASc ’73, electrical engineering) is the recipient of the 2021 Lord Kelvin Award from the (IEC).

Federal funding of $8.2 million announced July 7 will accelerate ��ݮ��Ƶ’s expertise in  (MSAM) and establish a collaborative consortium between post-secondary institutions and industry partners.

The Additive Manufacturing Alliance will help businesses throughout southern Ontario overcome barriers to adopting advanced manufacturing technologies by providing access to ��ݮ��Ƶ's MSAM specialized 3D-printing expertise and equipment.

For over three decades, the now $20-million ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering Endowment Foundation (WEEF) has covered the cost of everything from significant pieces of equipment to Lego kits engineering students have put to good use.

Co-founders Avi Belinsky (BASc ’90, electrical engineering) and John Vellinga (BASc ’91, systems design engineering) came up with the idea for the fund over $2 beers in Carl Pollock Hall's POETs in 1989.

It is deeply heartbreaking to learn that the remains of hundreds of people, including children, were found in unmarked graves near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan.

��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering stands with the Cowessess First Nation, and with the communities, families and individuals affected by this trauma. We are saddened knowing of the pain felt for the hundreds of children at Marieval and other Canadian residential schools who never went home, saddened for the families and communities whose children were taken and could not begin to heal.

An autonomous shuttle bus developed by a research team led by a ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering professor is now being showcased at the University of ��ݮ��Ƶ.

The demonstration of the WATonoBus is the first of its kind at a Canadian academic institution and marks a significant milestone in a multi-year initiative to demonstrate and integrate autonomous transportation onto the campus.

A startup founded by second-year ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering students just five years ago would have a market capitalization of US $5.16 billion under a proposed merger to make it a publicly traded company.

, which is based in San Francisco, was launched by former mechatronics engineering students Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak to bring autonomous technology to the trucking industry.

Sheha Akbari graduates from ��ݮ��Ƶ with a management engineering degree, an Apple patent in the works, experience as a refugee interpreter and translator, and a passion for helping improve the lives of disadvantaged women and youth living in Afghanistan.

Growing up hearing about the financial, emotional and other struggles her parents, especially her mother, had while in Afghanistan, Akbari has committed herself to supporting Afghan citizens, particularly women and youth. 

The hard work, perseverance and accomplishments of ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering's 2021 graduates will be honoured in two convocation events on June 19.

An online reception will begin at 5 p.m. to recognize the Faculty's newest alumni. It will include a slide show of photos submitted by students highlighting nostalgic moments throughout their various programs, a group opening of a special gift sent to all graduates and fun games with “awesome prizes.”

Mary Wells, the dean of ��ݮ��Ƶ Engineering, urges universities to do more to encourage diversity among students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in an opinion piece in a national publication.