Research

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.
 

Areas of Concentration


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Additive Manufacturing
Fundamentally changing the way things are made.
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Advanced Manufacturing
Controls and precision tooling, lightweight materials, structural crashworthiness, advanced materials. 
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Architecture & Design
Digital design and fabrication technologies, environmental issues and new material economies, globalization, urbanization.
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Automotive
Autonomous, connected, and mechanical vehicular research.
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Biomedical Engineering
Bio-compatibility and in-vitro modelling, human movement, ergonomics, wearable technology.
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Blockchain
Shaping the future of blockchain technologies.
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Connectivity and Internet of Things
Advancing IoT research to connect and exchange data.
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Cybersecurity
Locking down data security.
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Data Analytics
Developing sound business decisions.
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Energy storage
Alternative fuels, energy harvesting, bio-energy, power systems.
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Nanotechnology
Nano-biosystems, nano-electronics, nano-instrumentation, nano-materials.
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Operational Artificial Intelligence
Robotics and machine intelligence, machine learning. 
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Robotics
Human machine interaction, autonomous robotics, rahabilitation and assistive robotics, micro and nano robitics, and sensing and control.
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Smart infrastructure
Transporation networks, smart buildings, smart communities, and sensors and devices.
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Supply chain and logistics
Digital factories, operational research and logistics.
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Vision systems and imaging
Image processing, medical imaging and scanning.
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Water
Drinking water, value-added recovery and waste water management.
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Wireless communications and networks
Delivering transformative wireless technology.
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News

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.

This year's Capstone Design Symposia at the University of Waterloo showcased over 350 innovative student-led projects built to solve real-world problems. Many of the projects showed impressive entrepreneurial acumen and the potential for commercialization.  

Thanks to invaluable support from donors and industry partners, 39 student teams won financial awards to help them develop their project designs, laying the groundwork for these students to take their business ideas even further. 

An interdisciplinary research team at the University of Waterloo is pioneering innovative methods to measure and mitigate harmful methane emissions.

Led by Dr. Kyle Daun, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering, the team is using a hyperspectral camera, or “Hyper-Cam,” to measure methane emissions at a landfill site in the Waterloo region. Landfills account for about 20% of Canada's methane emissions.

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