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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Two profs elected to Canada's leading academic society

Two Waterloo professors were elected today to the Royal Society of Canada’s class of 2025, the country’s highest academic honour.

Dr. Norman Zhou and Dr. John McPhee joined 102 new fellows and members recognized nationwide for outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievements. In total, six University of Waterloo researchers received the distinction.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

Researchers fight evolving wildfires with new data models

On average, Canada experiences 8,000 wildfires each year. That number is said to be on the rise as fire behaviour evolves and affects more populated areas.

Dr. Beth Weckman and Dr. Vinny Gupta, both professors in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, are advancing our understanding of wildfires and how to respond to them through their work at the University of Waterloo’s Fire Research Facility (UW FRF) — one of the most advanced facilities in Canada dedicated to fire safety and science.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Alumni startup raises U.S. $3M to advance medical robot

Health-tech startup Cobionix has secured U.S. $3 million in funding to accelerate the commercialization of its flagship autonomous medical robot, CODI®, in North American and UK healthcare systems.

Co-founded in 2021 by Waterloo Engineering alumni Nima Zamani and Dr. Tim Lasswell (both BASc ‘14 and MASc ‘16, mechanical and mechatronics engineering) with John Van Leeuwen (BSc ‘81), Cobionix builds autonomous medical robots that can help make health care more accessible.

Monday, April 21, 2025

RoboHub selected to help companies advance key tech

The home of robotics research at Waterloo Engineering is one of ten new technology development sites in Ontario created to help drive innovation in four key sectors – mining, construction, agri-food and advanced manufacturing.

Through a provincial program called Critical Industrial Technologies (CIT), facilities and expertise at RoboHub will be made available to small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) to develop, test and showcase technology products and services.

Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Prof's research team fuels health-tech startups

A research team of Waterloo Engineering graduate students is working on a range of health-tech applications from cancer diagnostics to wearable medical devices.  

Led by Dr. Carolyn Ren, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the Waterloo Microfluidics Lab (WML) develops and supports commercialized research that aims to improve the delivery of health care, including compression therapy for medical and athletic use.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Engineering student earns prestigious aerospace fellowship

A Waterloo Engineering student has been recognized among top emerging aerospace leaders.

Shanaya Barretto, a third-year Mechatronics Engineering student, was recently named a 2025 Brooke Owens Fellow, a prestigious program offering paid internships and executive mentorship to outstanding undergraduate women and gender minorities in aerospace.

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Additive manufacturing lab awarded multi-million-dollar grant

Waterloo Engineering researchers at the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Lab (MSAM) will lead a multi-million-dollar initiative to scale up sustainable metal additive manufacturing.

Dr. Ehsan Toyserkani and Dr. Mihaela Vlasea, co-directors of MSAM and professors of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, will lead the brand-new Consortium for Sustainable Scale-up in Metal Additive Manufacturing as part of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario’s $5 million investment.

Monday, January 27, 2025

Profs receive new funding for transformative quantum sensors

Two professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded funding today to advance quantum communications, sensing and detection.

Dr. Eihab Abdel-Rahman, from systems design engineering, and Dr. Mustafa Yavuz, from mechanical and mechatronics engineering, were among three projects campus-wide to receive more than $1.3 million from a collaboration with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) programs.

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Profs awarded over $7M to advance quantum research

Five professors at Waterloo Engineering were awarded a combined total of just over $7 million in funding today through a federal initiative to advance quantum science and technology. 

Dr. Bradley Hauer. Dr. Michael Reimer, Dr. Lan Wei and Dr. Christopher Wilson, all from electrical and computer engineering, and Dr. Sushanta Mitra, of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, were among 13 researchers campus-wide to receive $16.2 million from the National Quantum Strategy for 16 projects. 

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Prof receives prestigious award from American Welding Society

Dr. Norman Zhou, Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Waterloo, has been awarded the American Welding Society's (AWS) Comfort A. Adams Lecture Award. Named in honor of AWS founder and first President Dr. Comfort A. Adams, this award recognizes distinguished scientists or engineers for a lecture highlighting innovative advancements in welding.

Dr. Zhou delivered a lecture on “Nanojoining - A New Frontier in Welding and Joining of Materials” at the 2024 AWS Annual Meeting.