Exceptional
students
and
alumni were
honoured
at
the
2015
Waterloo
Engineering
Awards
Dinner
held
November
26.
Over
2,500
students
received
awards
this
year
for
everything
from
top
marks,
to
extracurricular
activities,
such
as
leadership,
community
engagement
and
involvement
in
athletics.
Faculty
of
Engineering
medals
were
presented
to
the
following
alumni:
The
first
recipient
of
the
Young
Alumni
Achievement
Medal was
Brent
E.
Tweddle (BASc
'07,
Computer).
Tweddle
went
on
to
complete
his
Masters
and
PhD
at
MIT
and
while
working
on
his
doctoral
degree
he
headed
up
the
development
of
a
robotic
research
system
that
has
successfully
operated
on
the
International
Space
Station.
Currently
Tweddle
is a
Guidance
and
Control
Engineer
at
the
NASA
Jet
Propulsion
Laboratory
working
on
the
Lander
Vision
System
for
the
Mars
2020
Entry,
Descent
and
Landing
System.
The
second
recipient
of
the
Young
Alumni
Achievement
Medal was
Fangjin
Yang (BASc
'07,
Electrical
‘07,
MASc
’09
Computer).
While
working
at
Metamarkets
in
the
digital
advertising
space
he
created
the
open-source,
real-time
analytics
system
Druid
that
recently
won
the
Best
Open
Source
Innovation
award
for
excellence
in
software
development
from
the
Software
and
Information
Industry
Association.
He
has
since
formed
the
startup
Imply.
The
Team
Alumni
Achievement
Medal
was
awarded
to
Patrick Martinson (BASc
'09 Mechatronics
, MASc
’15
Management), Matt Rendall (BASc
'08 Mechatronics
, MBET
‘09), Ryan
Gariepy
(BASc
'09
Mechatronics
,
MASc
’11
Mechanical) and
Bryan
Webb
(BASc
‘09
Mechatronics
)
of
Clearpath
Robotics.
Since
launching
the
company
six
years
ago,
the
company
has
earned
an
international
reputation
for
providing
reliable,
state-of-the-art
robotics
solutions
for
a
range
of
industrial
applications.
The Alumni
Achievement
Medal
for
Professional
Achievement was
awarded
to Marc.
H.
Morin (BASc '87
Electrical).
A
highly
successful
local
entrepreneur
who
has
made
a
tremendous
contribution
to
Waterloo
Region
technology
economy
including
building
PixStream,
that
was
sold
to
Cisco
Systems
Inc.
in
2000
and
then
launching
Sandvine,
Emforium
and
most
recently
Auvik;
a
cloud-based
system,
provides
IT
professionals
with
a
better
way
to
monitor,
configure
and
automate
networks.
Also
honoured
at
the
Awards
dinner
was
The
Miller
McAsphalt
Group
with
the
Friend
of
the
Faculty
Award.
The
Miller
McAsphalt
Group
was
instrumental
in
the
formation
of
Waterloo
Engineering’s
Centre
for
Pavement
and
Transportation
Technology. The
Group’s
support
of
research
at
the
centre
and
the
Norman
W.
McLeod
Chair
has
had
a
huge
impact
on
advanced
research
and
education
that
has
resulted
in
improvements
to
Canadian
standards
and
specifications,
including
the
development
of
recycled
asphalt
pavement.
Pictured
above
are John
Carrick,
Blair
McArthur
and Kelly
Carrick from
The
Miller
McAsphalt
Group.
