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Congratulations SE 2019! All the best for the future!

SE Capstone team aims to harness the power of video game players to trainÌýartificial intelligence systems. An AI system for an autonomous vehicle, for example, might be trainedÌýto recognize pedestrians from thousands of photos of street scenes in which the pedestrians have been labelled by a person who plays video games. The gamer would earn in-game rewards for their efforts, and the dataset owner would pay and the video game company for the labelling work.

SE Capstone team TagBull aims to harness the power of video game players to trainÌýartificial intelligence systems. An AI system for an autonomous vehicle, for example, might be trainedÌýto recognize pedestrians from thousands of photos of street scenes in which the pedestrians have been labelled by a person who plays video games. The gamer would earn in-game rewards for their efforts, and the dataset owner would pay TagBull and the video game company for the labelling work.

We are proud to announce that SE student Céline O'Neil won the Karen Mark Scholarship. "The scholarship is awarded annually to a third-year Engineering undergraduate female student based on excellent academic achievement and demonstrated involvement and contributions to student life at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ."ÌýCélineÌýhas contributed to Ìýin a variety of important roles over the last three years, with titles including Director, VP, Commissioner, and Staff.

SE101 Teaching Assistant (and SE alumnus)ÌýÌýwon the Sanford Fleming FoundationÌýTeaching AssistantÌýAward. WayÌýto goÌýRollen! This award is based on nominations from the students, and recognizes Rollen'sÌýextraordinary commitment to and mentorship of the students in their first term at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.

On June 16, 2018, the largest À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Software Engineering class to date will be granted their Bachelor of Software Engineering (BSE) degrees. This year, 144 students have earned BSE degrees from the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, making a total of 1114 BSE degrees granted since the first graduating class in 2006. Are you one of those 1114? Stay in touch with us by mailing Patrick Lam, SE director, at se-director@uwaterloo.ca.

The Software Engineering Capstone Design Symposium will be on Tuesday, March 28, 2017. Presentations will run from 9AMÌýto 3:30PM. Awards announced at 4:30pm. Poster booths and demonstrations will be in the Davis Centre Lobby. Presentations will be in rooms DC1302 and DC1304. The full schedule is listed below, including schedules for individual referees, and instructions for referees.

Breakfast and lunch will be served for participants (students, referees, coordinators, camera operators, etc).

Project abstracts are on the Capstone Design site.

The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposiaÌýbeginning March 16.Ìý

Senior-year engineering students at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.

Lisa Tang graduated from Software Engineering at uÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ in 2006 and entered graduate school to pursue interests in Human Computer Interaction. In 2012, she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with her PhD, specializing in Usability Engineering and Accessibility. Her thesis, titled "Producing Informative Textual Alternatives for Images" and sponsored by Microsoft Canada, specified a procedure for identifying information in an image while considering the importance of the information within a given context.

Clarisse Schneider, a second year Software Engineering student, is the grateful winner of the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation 2014