Come join us virtually on Wednesday April 7th and witness 10 finalist 4th-year Capstone teams from various engineering departments battle it out in the Norman Esch Pitch Competition for $60K in prize money to jumpstart their startup project.
Of the 10 finalists selected, 5 of them, an unprecedented majority, are from MME (2 MTE, 3 ME). Each team could take home one of six $10,000 prizes - yes, MME could clean sweep the finals by winning five of the six awards!
AquaSensing, a tech startup started by MME professor Norman Zhou and ECE professor George Shaker, have earned a spot in the finals of an international pitch competition for water innovation.
The duo booked its spot in the global Water Dragons pitch competition after winning second place in the preliminal round against eight other companies.
Waterloo Autonomous Racing (WATORACE), including two Mechatronics students, Ben Kurrek and Elijah O’Leary, won 4th place in the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) virtual race #3, also capturing the Rising Star Award.
Ben and Elijah have contributed to determining the best racing line for the car to follow, as well as the throttle controller and test scenarios.
A self-driving shuttle bus - the first at any academic institution in Canada - could be operating on the Ring Road at the University of Waterloo by the time students return to campus for in-person classes as COVID-19 restrictions ease.
The symposium will be held online this year and our students are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to finally demonstrate the results of their innovation and expertise.
The MME department is excited to announce the 2021 Mechatronics Engineering Capstone Symposium which will be held on Tuesday, March 30th 2021.
The symposium will be held online this year using the Cisco WebEx online-conferencing platform.
Our students are eagerly anticipating this symposium as the opportunity to finally demonstrate the results of their innovation and expertise.
The MME department is excited to announce the 2021 Mechanical Engineering Capstone Symposium which will be held on Wednesday, March 31st 2021.
The symposium will be held online this year using the Microsoft Teams group-chat platform.
Our students are eagerly anticipating this symposium as the opportunity to finally demonstrate the results of their innovation and expertise. Each team will be evaluated based on their ability to explain their project.
Congratulations to professor Roydon Fraser for winning an Ontario Volunteer Service Award! Professor Fraser was recognized for a 25 years of service award for his ongoing service and support with the Professional Engineers Ontario - Academic Requirements Committee (ARC).
The Ontario government recently announced a $2.5 million investment into Facedrive Inc. to support the development and deployment of the contact tracing system TraceSCAN.
The purpose of this project is to develop an artificial intelligence alert system for COVID-19 based on contact tracing and health monitoring using Bluetooth-enabled wearable technology and mobile app. The University of Waterloo has partnered with Facedrive Inc. to conduct research/development in areas such as AI-based models to better predict outbreak patterns of COVID-19 and any subsequent pandemics.