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Friday, March 26, 2021

MME student-run start-up wins $5K at the Concept winter pitch competition finals

Team AquaSensing, a MME student-run start-up project, have won a $5000 grant, among four winning teams, from the 2021 Winter Concept pitch competition.

Founded by MME master's students, Nathan Johnson, Connor Al-Joundi, Kushant Patel and Jarren Teo, AquaSensing focusses on the design of battery-free water-leak detection devices.

pitch competition promo poster

Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Pitch Competition for Capstone Design

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!

AquaSense water-leak sensor
Friday, March 26, 2021

MME professor's startup moving on to finals in international pitch competition

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.

Circuit board testing

2021 Interdisciplinary Engineering Capstone Symposium

The MME department is excited to announce the 2021 Interdisciplinary Engineering Capstone Symposium which will be held on Friday, March 26th 2021.

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.

Visualizing gasses

2021 Mechatronics Engineering Capstone Symposium

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.

Driving simulation

2021 Mechanical Engineering Capstone Symposium

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.

Waterloo Innovation Summit July 22 & Aug 19 (Virtual)

Waterloo Innovation Summit

The Waterloo Innovation Summit is back and ready to tackle today's most pressing issues. On July 22 and August 19, Randall Lane, Forbes chief content officer and editor, explores how talent and innovation collide in the race to reset today's workforce and rebuild economies.  

Mihaela Vlasea in MSAM Lab
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

MME Prof, Mihaela Vlasea, sole Canadian winner of the 2020 SME Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Awards

Mihaela Vlasea’s, high achievements were recognized by SME.org. The awards are centered on research and management efforts around manufacturing processes, environmental sustainability, additive manufacturing, smart manufacturing, medical device manufacturing, nanomanufacturing, biomedical manufacturing, metalworking fluids, civil and environmental engineering, and advanced materials.

Mariko Shimoda and Engineering Friends
Tuesday, June 23, 2020

#MMEProud: Recent graduate Mariko Shimoda is a superstar!

It’s hard to imagine how Mariko Shimoda had time to become an engineer with all of her community involvement. The Mechanical Engineering graduate (BASC ’20) clearly excels and can juggle a lot and do it well - she was hired full-time by her co-op placement.

Over the past five years, Shimoda participated in the following volunteer roles:

Patricia Nieva and William Melek have partnered with Facedrive Health
Friday, June 5, 2020

New AI technology developed by MME will improve contact tracing

Patricia Nieva and William Melek, both Mechanical and Mechatronics Professors, have partnered with Facedrive Health, to incorporate the new algorithms they’re developing into a smart phone contact tracing app called TraceSCAN.