New initiatives for industrial and international partnerships are enabling Waterloo engineers to develop strategic research collaborations in areas such as wireless communications, the mobile internet, additive manufacturing, advanced robotics, biomedical engineering and sustainable energy.
The Engineering Research Office (ERO) proactively builds relationships with funding agencies, potential sponsors and other stakeholders, pairing the university’s leading engineering researchers with government and industry, to advance new technologies to improve the human condition.
Waterloo Engineering maintains research partnerships with close to 800 Canadian companies and 300 companies internationally, targeting strategic research partnerships with leading global universities.
Several Senate-approved research centres, including the Centre for Advanced Trenchless Technology, the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy, the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research and the Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology form part of Waterloo Engineering’s commitment to research excellence.
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Controls and precision tooling, lightweight materials, structural crashworthiness, advanced materials.
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Digital design and fabrication technologies, environmental issues and new material economies, globalization, urbanization.
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Advancing IoT research to connect and exchange data.
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Health Technologies
Biomanufacturing and health tech revolutionizing medical treatments, diagnostics and healthcare delivery.
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Nano-biosystems, nano-electronics, nano-instrumentation, nano-materials.
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Robotics and machine intelligence, machine learning.
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Robotics
Human machine interaction, autonomous robotics, rehabilitation and assistive robotics, micro and nano robotics, and sensing and control.
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Transporation networks, smart buildings, smart communities, and sensors and devices.
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Industry partnership supports Faculty’s first welding lab
The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Engineering proudly unveiled its new welding lab in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering (MME).
The state-of-the-art facility expands the Faculty’s capacity to deliver industry-relevant, experiential learning. The department’s leadership established the lab with internal investment and funds from the CWB Welding Foundation, a national charity established in 2013 by the Canadian Welding Bureau (CWB) and a longstanding supporter of Waterloo Engineering.
Students design quality of life solutions with UN-Habitat
University of Waterloo students from all six faculties put their problem-solving skills to the test in a hackathon delivered in partnership by the UN-Habitat's Quality of Life Initiative and the University’s Pearl Sullivan Engineering Ideas Clinic.
The event, designed to engage university students as strategic partners in community transformation, challenged the 70 participants to solve pressing local problems that affect urban wellbeing in the City of Waterloo.
Where's the puck? AI can now track hockey better than ever
Waterloo Engineering researchers have upped the evolving game of automated hockey analysis with new advances to follow the puck and track player movement with more accuracy than ever before.
In two recent studies, the researchers developed artificial intelligence (AI) software to overcome challenges posed by motion blurring and obstructed views in broadcast video of the fast-paced sport.