Events

Dr. John S. Gero
Research Professor
Department of Computer Science and School of Architecture
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Research Professor
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study George Mason University

Seminar Topics

The talk will cover the following topics:

Come watch the finalists of the 3MT faculty-based heats present their research in the 3MT university-wide final competition.

In the first symposium of the Waterloo Symposium on Technology & Society series, Martin Ford explores the ways in which AI and automation (aka, “robots”) are outpacing humans in a range of sectors, from education to law, agriculture to healthcare, management and beyond. He offers a realistic view of what the future of work—and your place in it—will look like.

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.

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 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.

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.

Quenched and Partitioned Steels – Adventures of Welding a Novel Steel

Speaker: Prof. Mohamed Bakr

Title: Effective Teaching of Engineering Courses Using Flipped Classrooms

Date: 25 February, 2020

Time: 3pm 

Location: EIT-3142

Invited By: Omar Ramahi

Autonomous Driving at Intersections: A Critical-Turning-Point Approach for Decision Making.