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Monday, September 12, 2016

New UW lab helping to build the cars of tomorrow

Researchers at a new automotive lab at the University of Waterloo believe their work today will help to design the cars of tomorrow.

The new $10-million Green and Intelligent Automotive (GAIA) Research Facility officially opened Wednesday in completely renovated space in the Engineering 3 building.

It's the latest addition to the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research, or WatCAR, touted as the largest university-based automotive research centre in Canada.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Rio Olympics 2016: Engineering speed for the Canadian track cycling team

Waterloo research team had one week to design and deliver a complex handlebar connector that helps athletes stay in the optimal position for maintaining speed.

A tight timeline was only fitting when engineers at the University of Waterloo took on a special project for the Canadian track cycling team headed to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

In Rio, Canada’s Olympic cyclists testing UW-developed bracket

Canada’s track cyclists are making their final preparations for competition at the Rio Olympic Velodrome, and those preparations could include adding a part developed at the University of Waterloo to their bikes.

Waterloo engineering professor John McPhee says he received a phone call last month from the Canadian Sports Institute, which had a bit of an unusual request.

“They needed some new parts designed and prototyped,” he said in an interview. [Read more]

Monday, June 20, 2016

Recent SYDE Master's wins NASA space app global design challenge

SYDE Master's student, Nippun Goyal, recently co-designed a "space app" that won the "Most Inspirational" prize at a NASA global design challenge - beating out 1200 teams. As part of the prize, he and his teammates are invited to spend 4-days at an upcoming shuttle, where they will get a back-stage pass with the astronauts.  

There's is the "Kid on the Moon" project. 

[Read more]

Thursday, June 2, 2016

SYDE Professor Alexander Wong on CBC Radio One

Prof. Alexander Wong of Systems Design Engineering was interviewed by Craig Norris on The Morning Edition on CBC Radio One, discussing the new cancer bio-marker technology developed by him and his research team:

Read about it on CBC News.

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

SYDE Professor Alexander Wong on Omni Television

Prof. Alexander Wong of Systems Design Engineering was featured in segments on the Omni Television shows 'Focus on Cantonese' and 'Focus on Mandarin', discussing the new blood flow imaging technology developed by him and his research team:

Watch 'Focus on Cantonese' video segment.

Watch 'Focus on Mandarin' video segment: