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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (March 21, 2024) ― DENSO’s Guelph, Ontario, location has won a HeForShe Impact Award from the HeForShe Committee at the University of Guelph (UG), consisting of representatives from the School of Engineering, Gordon S. Lang School of Business and Economics, and Gryphon Football Team. Each year, the university presents the award to an organization in the Guelph-Wellington area that is doing exemplary local work to help improve gender equity.

A new smart robot could transform the way farmers pick tomatoes. Researchers at the University of Guelph have developed a grasping system which, when combined with artificial intelligence, can pick up produce.

Guelph is one of the largest cities in Canada that is totally dependent on groundwater for drinking water. Unfortunately, threats of contamination, climate change and a rising demand from Guelph and its neighbours are putting the sustainability of their shared aquifer at risk. An innovative partnership between Dr.

Kristina Kupferschmidt is a PhD student at University of Guelph and the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She researches responsible applications for machine learning and for this year's food price report, she worked with food economists to identify key factors impacting food prices, then combined them with modern machine learning techniques to help produce more accurate predictions for changing food prices.

Dr. Ramesh Rudra was honoured this month with a Doctorate of Science from Guru Kashi University for his exemplary contributions to society.

For two decades, professor Beth Parker, a professor in the School of Engineering and director of the Morwick G360 Groundwater Research Institute (MG360), has collaborated with the City of Guelph and two environmental engineering firms — Matrix Solutions and WSP Global — to enhance the city’s groundwater monitoring network with state-of-the-science methods to manage risks to the city’s water supply, safeguarding the community’s access to clean uncontaminated water into the future. 

To help celebrate International Women in Engineering Day we asked Rylee Davison - 4th Year Biomedical Engineering student to share her story at U of G.

In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day, we connected with U of G engineering graduate Emily Nichols to hear her thoughts on being ‘one of the guys.’

Queen’s Chair for Women in Engineering Heidi Ploeg and University of Guelph counterpart Jana Levison agree engineering climate and retention are forefront issues.