The 2012 Waterloo Engineering Awards dinner held on November 22 honoured engineering's exceptional students, alumni and a friend of the faculty. More than 2,500 students received awards this year for everything from top marks to extracurricular activities such as leadership, community engagement, and involvement in athletics.
A number of awards were distributed at the event, including:
Waterloo Engineering students had their chance to impress Canadian business leaders on the October 31 all-student episode of CBC's Dragons' Den. Hongwei Liu, an electrical and computer engineering student, and Desmond Choi, a University of Waterloo arts student, pitched their company MappedIn's smartphone application that helps people navigate through malls.
Devon Rizzo, a second-year management engineering student, captured the women's title at the Canadian University/College Championship on June 1 at the Cordova Bay Golf Course in Victoria, B.C. Garrett Rank, a uWaterloo economics student, won the men's title.
Both Waterloo Warriors won in thrilling fashion with Rizzo taking the title on the third playoff hole while Rank birdied four of his last six holes to win the championship by three strokes.
On Tuesday, April 3, the University of Waterloo's Baja SAE design team unveiled their 2012 all-terrain vehicle in Engineering's Student Design Centre. Designed over the Spring and Fall 2011 school terms and constructed between January and March, the car will take part in a competition in Portland, Oregon, from May 2-5, 2012.
The top two prizes in this year's University of Waterloo Nicol Entrepreneurial Award Competition were won by Waterloo Engineering undergraduate students. First place and $5,000 went to Philip La, a chemical engineering student, for Kingpin, a time saving service for single men that provides pre-ordered grooming and personal care items through an online subscription-based store. Emily Peat, a civil engineering student, won second place and $2,000 for ItsMyEcoPlace, an online community connecting people to local businesses that provide products and services for sustainable gardening, landscap
Mark Cremasco, a mechanical engineering MASc candidate, and his supervisor Carolyn Hansson won the best poster award at the 23rd annual Canadian Materials Science Conference held recently at UBC Okanagan. Their poster was entitled Analysis of the Effects of Anti-Icing Agents on the Durability of Concrete.
Mechanical engineering professors and graduate students captured two awards at the recent NSERC Magnesium Strategic Network annual general meeting. The best poster award was won by professor Kaan Inal and students Yauheni Staraselski, Abhijit Brahme and Raj Mishra for their work entitled Modeling Dynamic Recrystallization in Magnesium Alloys. The best oral presentation honour went to professor Mary Wells and student Pedram Mehraram for their presentation Heat Transfer During Twin Roll Casting of Metals.
Waterloo systems design engineering students will showcase product designs offering innovative solutions to problems that can occur in sports activities. On July 22 12 student groups in a third-year systems design engineering course will present their work from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in room 1301 of the Davis Centre. The design prototypes address a variety problems including improving synchronization for dragon boating and reducing skidding in bicycle racing. [news release]