When Armen Bakirtzian was a fourth-year mechatronics engineering student at the University Waterloo, he began work on a tool that would help orthopedic surgeons like his own father align joints more accurately.
Matt Rendall (BASc '08, Mtron; MBET '09), co-founder and CEO of Clearpath Robotics, is a finalist in the Young Entrepreneur category of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, which honours Canada's leading entrepreneurs from all areas of business. Rendall's company develops and manufactures unmanned vehicles used for autonomous vehicle research and data collection on land and sea.
Three members of Waterloo's electrical and computer engineering department received the best paper award at the 2013 Languages, Compilers and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES 2013) conference held June 20-21 in Seattle, Washington. The paper was authored by Sebastian Fischmeister and Anwar Hasan, both professors in the department, and Carlos Moreno, who was a doctoral candidate when the paper was submitted. Their winning entry is entitled Non-Intrusive Program Tracing and Debugging of Deployed Embedded Systems Through Side-Channel Analysis.
Susan Tighe, a civil engineering professor and the Canada Research Chair in Pavement and Infrastructure Management, was interviewed July 4 on CBC radio about the latest research taking place by Waterloo engineers to improve the quality of concrete and asphalt pavement roads.
Waterloo's Women in Engineering committee has been honoured with this year's Status of Women and Equity Committee annual equity and inclusion award. The award recognizes a member or affiliate of the University of Waterloo community whose actions have demonstrated an exemplary commitment to improving equity, inclusivity, and/or diversity at the University of Waterloo.
Mahesh Tripunitara, an electrical and computer engineering professor, and Alireza Sharifi, an ECE doctoral candidate captured the best paper award at the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies. The symposium took place June 12-14 in Amsterdam.
Howard Armitage will become the new Special Advisor, Entrepreneurship, on September 1, 2013. Armitage is founding director of the Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program at the University of Waterloo, and the former director of the Conrad Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology Centre.
A million electric cars could be on roads across North America before the end of the decade with the help of research by a team that includes Zhongwei Chen, a Waterloo chemical engineering professor, the United States Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Chen is part of a team led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory looking to develop non-precious materials to replace the expensive platinum catalysts in fuel cells.
School of Architecture students won major awards at this year's Steel Structure Education Foundation (SSEF) student design competition entitled Pop Up. The Award of Excellence went to Gabriella den Elzen and James Clarke-Hicks and the Award of Merit went to Jim Shi and Logan Steele.The students' projects were a required submission for Arch 113 and Arch 173.