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Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Help recognize local top 40 under 40

Do you know an engineering faculty member, graduate, student or someone else under the age of 40 who is making a difference? If you do, consider nominating that person for Waterloo Region Record’s 40 Under 40 awards. Submissions for possible canadidates will be accepted until December 2. Selections will be made by a panel of judges from the Record and the community. 

Aeryon Labs and a University of Waterloo team led by Waterloo mechanical and mechatronics professor Steve Waslander have won this year’s Ontario Centres of Excellence Mind to Market Award. Aeryon Labs was co-founded by Waterloo Engineering alumni Dave Kroetsch (BASc ’02, Comp, MASc ’07, Mech), Mike Peasgood (BASc ’98, MASc ’02, PhD ’08, SD) and Steffen Lindner (BASc ’92, MASc ’95, SD). The company developed the Aeryon Scout, an innovative, easy-to-use, battery powered, unmanned aerial intelligence gathering system with integrated camera solutions.

About 2,900 potential Waterloo Engineering students, family members and others checked out our Waterloo and Cambridge campuses on November 5 as part of the campus-wide annual fall open house. The day offered tours of engineering buildings and the School of Architecture, residence viewing, demonstrations, including a dissection of a car engine, and even a “Parents’ Lounge” to answer questions.

The ribbon cutting has taken place and the doors of Engineering 6 are now officially open. The celebration of Waterloo Engineering’s newest building place took place this morning hosted by university president Feridun Hamdullahpur and dean of engineering Adel Sedra. On hand to mark the opening were faculty, staff, students and others including donors, owners and employees of Diamond and Schmitt Architects, the architects of the building, and federal and provincial government officials.

Peter Carr, a Waterloo management sciences professor, was asked by a Globe and Mail reporter whether something like Facebook or Twitter can contribute to the academic side university. “Absolutely,” he responded. “The new modern philosophies of education would say it’s important to have students working in groups, interacting with each other and the professor and learning the content together.” Carr recently taught a group of students who connected with Red Cross workers at offices in Uganda, Colombia and India using Skype.

Lawrence Wong, of systems design engineering and the University of Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, was awarded the MEMSCAP Microsystems Design Award for his presentation entitled Ultrasound Imaging System using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers. The competition, sponsored by CMC Microsystems, is targeted at microsystems applications including telecommunication, health care, automobile, aerospace and the environment.

Kui Jiao, who graduated last week with his PhD in mechanical engineering, has been chosen as the grand prize winner of the 2011 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Award for Fuel Cell Research. The award will be presented to Jiao November 1 at the 2011 Fuel Cell Seminar Exposition in Orlando, Florida. This is the first time a Canadian student has won the award. Jiao’s doctoral supervisor was Xianguo Li of mechanical engineering. At the October 22 convocation Jiao was one of five doctoral students campus-wide recognized with the rubric “outstanding achievement in graduate studies”.

Lola Sheppard of Waterloo’s School of Architecture was a recipient of the 2011 Holcim Gold Award awarded in Washington D.C. to Lateral Office/Infranet Lab headed by Sheppard and Mason White of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. The architectural firm, based in Toronto and Princeton, New Jersey, was awarded the top prize of $100,000 by the Holcim Awards Program that honours sustainable North American construction projects.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Fall term final exam schedule posted

Although many Waterloo Engineering students are still writing midterms, they now will be able to plan for their fall term final exams that take place this year from December 8 to 22. The Registrar’s office has posted dates for in-class and on-line exams, as well as details on timetable conflicts, religious accommodation exam scheduling and more. [final exam schedule]