Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Time: 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Location: Student Design Centre, Engineering 5 Building, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON - free parking (PDF)
Cost: $10; reception includes hors d'oeuvres and a host bar (*price includes HST)
Dr. Pearl Sullivan, Incoming Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, and Dr. Mary Wells, Associate Dean of Engineering Outreach, invite you to join them along with the Waterloo Engineering alumni and friends community at a special reception in the new Engineering 5 Building showcasing 4th year student design projects and engineering student team vehicles.
You will have the opportunity to speak directly to the bright and excellent students who designed the top 4th year student design projects and the team vehicles. Also, meet Waterloo Engineering alumni, faculty, graduate students, friends, and special guests at this fabulous reception.
Keynote speaker: Sheldon Fernandez (BASc 2001), Director of Infusion Development and CTO of PersonIf will deliver the keynote address titled
“The great riddle of Canadian entrepreneurship - fostering creativity and doggedness in a moderate society”
Sheldon FernandezBASc 2001, Computer Engineering
Director of Infusion Development, and
Chief Technical Officer of PersonIf
After graduating from the University of Waterloo in 2001 from Computer Engineering, Sheldon Fernandez joined a team of uWaterloo graduates and co-founded Infusion Development Canada, which provided software and consulting services to the investment banking industry and to state and local governments. Today, the company has blossomed into a global firm consisting of 350 employees with offices in Toronto, New York, Boston, Houston, London, and Dubai. As its chief technical architect, Sheldon has been responsible for honing the firm’s technical direction and ethos amidst ongoing revolutions in the industry. As result, Infusion is now considered a leader in the emerging technologies realm, and has won numerous awards for its innovative and inventive solutions.
Most recently, Sheldon served as Chief Technical Officer for the noteworthy Infusion spin-off, PersonIf a ‘people discovery’ platform that radically changes the way the entertainment industry locates and discovers talent. In addition to winning Microsoft’s web solution of the year award, this technology was used to cast for The Glee Project, Sports Illustrated and HBO.
In 2011, Sheldon received the University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Young Alumni Achievement Medal for his achievements.
Read Sheldon's complete biography (PDF).
This is a list of some of the top fourth year student design projects that will be on display at the event - more projects will be added regularly. Engineering students who designed and created these projects will be in attendance at the event so you can speak to them directly.
Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
The autotabber is an automatic tabulation device for electric guitars, which aids in the teaching and recording of music.
Program: Systems Design Engineering
The project aims to revolutionize the way baseball players and coaches train by providing them advanced technology at a low cost.
Program: Mechatronics Engineering
An electronic navigation for the visually impaired.
Program: Mechatronics Engineering
A Mechatronics Engineering design project of a prosthetic hand that allows braking and gear shifting of an unmodified bicycle using controls from a glove worn on the opposite hand.
Program: Mechatronics Engineering
The Fast Dispense team has created an automated fastener inventory system to solve the problem of fastener management for manufactures. The machine can automatically create kits to build assemblies, give real time stock data, provide analytics, and procure new fasteners.
Program: Mechanical Engineering
A viability study investigating the application of Flettner rotor sails as a propulsion system. Analytical and numerical simulations predict the performance of a theoretical Flettner Catamaran in various conditions and a scaled prototype demonstrates the exploited phenomenon.
Program: Electrical and Computer Engineering
The team designed and constructed a workout suit which allows a user to see which muscles are being activated on their smartphone during exercise.
Program: Systems Design Engineering
The Music Visualization project records a musician's performance and displays information about the dynamics and timing in real-time to the performer. It can be used by beginner's to learn to play pieces as well as more advanced musicians to visually identify areas of interest.
Program: Systems Design Engineering
Students designed a Near Field Communication system to speed up the drive-through food ordering process. Users select what they want on a phone app, and then pass their phone over a sensor to place their order, and to pay for the meal.
Program: Electrical & Computer Engineering
The piezoelectric phone charger utilizes pressure exerted by users when they're walking to produce energy for charging mobile phones. It is designed to provide power in a remote area where an electrical outlet is not readily available when the phone runs out of battery.
Program: Systems Design Engineering
Project Aeolus was designed with the precious value of human safety in mind. It's a small sized, low cost quadrocopter capable of autonomous stability controls allowing adoption of this great technology into the real world to take humans out of dangerous or difficult situations.
Program: Systems Design Engineering
The Orpheus Project is a real-time gesture based audio modulation system, that allow live performers to take back some control over their audio effects, and interact with their audience in an entirely new dimension.
Program: Systems Design Engineering
Smart Coat Check aims to eliminate the need for customers to keep track of traditional tickets, while increasing the speed, efficiency, and accuracy at which the coat is retrieved by an attendant. Using RF technology, the computer communicates with custom LED hangers through the link between a customer ID and hanger ID.
More projects to be added soon!
Note: HST number R119260685
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