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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) at uOttawa collaborated to showcase and celebrate Black Engineering Excellence at a gala event last month. With professional guest speakers, and four recognition awards, this night was the opportunity to recognize Black engineering excellence on our campus and beyond. Meet the winners!

The National Indigenous Climate Compass (NICC), an online data analysis tool, is the winning project of a 1-million-dollar grant from the TD Ready Challenge that will help Indigenous communities adapt to and mitigate climate change risks. The tool will be developed at the University of Ottawa collaboratively with the Faculty of Engineering’s Centre for Indigenous Community Infrastructure (CICI), I...

Four uOttawa Alumna from the Faculty of Engineering are sharing their experience since graduating university and are offering their best advice to current engineering students. Meet Caroline, Rukkya, Imane and Vanessa, four women who are shaping the future through their profession.

Sensor Cortek, a company started by uOttawa alum Fahed Hassanat, is using AI and deep learning to improve autonomous vehicle safety.

I had the good fortune of holding the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering for Ontario for ten years, from 2011 to 2021. The landscape for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) certainly changed a lot over those ten years and even more in the past few years. As funding agencies and organizations, including academic ones, grapple with n...

The University of Ottawa has joined forces with Mexico’s Tecnológico de Monterrey through a joint seed grant program. This year, five joint research projects have been funded, each receiving $20,000. The following projects show how new technology can make an impact on health care.

Exploration and innovation thrive when diversity is a feature of our research ecosystem. During Black History Month, we invite you to listen to three uOttawa professors, who are leading research in different fields, to hear about their experiences as Black academics. Learn from them in this short video series.

Faculty of Engineering professor Robert Delatolla has been awarded the 2022 Ontario Professional Engineers Awards (OPEA) Engineering Medal for Engineering Excellence.

University of Ottawa SUNLAB study provides improved means for accurate measurements of bifacial solar panels – a key long-term renewable energy source – by taking ground cover into account

Kirality Drones, a company that provides drone delivery service for golf courses, is the brainchild of Zainab Badawi and Mohammad Abu-Shaaban, two recent mechanical engineering graduates.