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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Bio-compatibility and in-vitro modelling, human movement, ergonomics, wearable technology.
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Advancing IoT research to connect and exchange data.
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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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Human machine interaction, autonomous robotics, rahabilitation and assistive robotics, micro and nano robitics, and sensing and control.
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Transporation networks, smart buildings, smart communities, and sensors and devices.
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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.
Donors support student teams to advance Capstone designs
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.
Researchers use special camera to curb gas emissions
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.