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Friday, March 15, 2019 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Mechatronics Engineering Capstone Design Symposium

2017 Mechatronics design symposium

Discover dozens of innovations from final year student research teams at Mechatronics Engineering's Capstone Design Symposium. Students will display research projects involving everything from an autonomous suturing device to a smoothie-making robot.

For more information on all the research projects that will be presented, please see the 2019 Mechatronics Engineering Capstone Design Projects page.

Friday, March 1, 2019 6:00 pm - Sunday, March 3, 2019 11:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Canadian Engineering Competition 2019

Students buildiing in competition

Students, faculty, staff and alumni are welcome to watch the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) 2019 competition events. Various competitions in design, consulting, presentation and debate will take place throughout PSE from Friday, March 1 until Sunday, March 3.

Saturday, February 9, 2019 10:00 am - 4:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Canadian Blockchain Olympiad Training Day

building and hexagonal logo

The four-part Canadian Blockchain Olympiad Training Camp programme to prepare Canadian students for entering the 2019 International Blockchain Olympiad (www.ibcol.org), a multidisciplinary design & building competition for solving real-world challenges through decentralised apps.

The University of Waterloo is partnering Tsinghua University in Beijing, China on a research collaboration centre that will advance science in the areas of nanotechnology, energy, and pollution control.

The centre—known as Tsinghua University – University of Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technology—officially opened on March 29.

Jian Zhao, a Ph.D. candidate from Dr. Xianguo Li’s research group in the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, has successfully moved on to the second round of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) video contest called Science, Action! Students from around the country submitted a short video showcasing research in the natural sciences or engineering fields.