Faculty

Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) invites you to Energy Day: a chance to meet and mingle with WISE researchers; connect the dots and get energized by talented young entrepreneurs and emerging leaders at the most innovative University in Canada; join academic, industry & government experts who have come together to share insights & new ideas for our energy future.

Come out and show off your trash/recycling/compost sorting skills and enter to win great prizes!

UW Sustainability will be here with their waste sorting challenge. Stop by and test your sorting knowledge to find out if you're a waste warrior or a recycling rookie! The rules are simple: you'll have 30 seconds to sort 30 common items into the right bins!

UWAFT Talks is an industry and networking event joined by industry leader, FleetCarma (a division of GeoTab), for a discussion on the emerging areas of automotive technology and sustainability, the diverse automotive ecosystem that exists here in Waterloo, and opportunities for local students to gain job and volunteer experience in this exciting and innovative industry!

A Universal and Reconfigurable Approach to Any Multi-axle Vehicle Dynamics Control

Gary Zhang, MVS Lab, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

Biography: Gary is currently a 3rd year Ph.D. candidate in MME at the University of Waterloo. He is working at the Mechatronic Vehicle Systems Lab under the supervision of Dr. Amir Khajepour.  His research interests include vehicle dynamics, reconfigurable control and optimization, and automated driving.

On the Phase Angle Role in the Shear Response of ZK60 Mg Alloys under Multiaxial Fatigue

Ali Karparvarfard, FATS Lab, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering

The Problem Lab invites you to watch the Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch Competition.

Teams have each chosen an important industry problem, and will now pitch their research to a panel of judges for a chance to win up to $30k in grant funding. The 5-minute pitches will demonstrate each competitor’s knowledge of their problem’s history, scope, and impact.

Celebrate Waterloo Engineering!

Come show your spirit and get your purple on! 

The tradition continues on July 12, 2019 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm to celebrate Engineering Day with our incredible community of students, alumni, professors and staff. This year's activities will include a colour throw (wear a white t-shirt!), BBQ featuring the famous 'Boggan Burgers, free treats and refreshments including purple Koolaid as well as soft-serve ice cream and popcorn, a photo booth, The Tool and The Tool Bearers, and so much more!

Since the last fundraiser was so successful, EWB has partnered again with Krispy Kreme to have another fundraiser to raise money for social enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa to help reduce poverty.

$10 for a dozen or $1 per donut

Biography: Chunhui Liu is a second year MASc student in MME at University of Waterloo. He is a member of Multi‐Physics Interaction Lab (MPILab) and supervised by Prof. Jean‐Pierre Hickey. He received his B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from the Beihang University in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He is interested in the area of multiphase turbulent flow. He is currently working on prediction of ship maneuvering coefficients by numerical simulations.

The Tsinghua-Waterloo Joint Forum on Advances in Energy and Environmental Technologies will bring together leading experts in the fields of sustainable energy management, novel energy production, biofuels, pollution mitigation, fuel cells, and next-generation rechargeable energy systems.