Events

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.  

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.

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!

Now available to all Waterloo Engineering departments, the Palihapitiya/Lau Venture Creation Fund provides two $50,000 awards to University-selected Capstone Design teams whose intention is to transform their Capstone Design project into a promising startup post-graduation. 

Attend the info session to learn more.

On Saturday March 16 from 8:30a.m. - 4:30p.m., the University of Waterloo and Impact Alliance will be teaming up to host the Global Solutions Conference!

UW Formula Motorsports is proud to unveil our 2019 formula-style race car!

Our car will be competition-ready and on display from 12pm-6pm. The event has an open schedule so you can drop by any time during the 6 hours! Come check out the car speak to the team about all the hard work they've put in!

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.

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.