Tom Gawel receiving the 2025 Outstanding Staff Performance Award – Technical (pictured on the left) and Dr. Jean-Pierre Hickey receiving the 2025 Faculty Research Excellence Award (pictured on the right).
Every year, staff and faculty of the Faculty of Engineering here at the University of Waterloo gather for the engineering award lunch. The Faculty of Engineering hosts this lunch as an opportunity to celebrate staff and faculty for their amazing work in research, teaching, and service, building the faculty into the wonderful place to work and learn that it is.
Staff and faculty are presented with awards and honours, some of which were given to our amazing MME faculty and staff.
The 2026 award recipients from the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering are:
Internal University of Waterloo Faculty of Engineering Awards
Dr. Jean-Pierre Hickey - Faculty Research Excellence Award
Dr. Michael Benoit - Outstanding Performance Award
Dr. Kevin Musselman - Outstanding Performance Award
Dr. Stewart McLachlin - Outstanding Performance Award
Dr. XiaoYu Wu - Outstanding Performance Award
Tom Gawel - Outstanding Staff Performance Award, Technical
Marisa Buettel - W2025 Friend of Natalie from EngSoc
External Awards
Dr. Duane Cornin - Tier 1 Canada Research Chair: NSERC (renewed)
Dr. Michael Benoit - 2026 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award: Society of Manufacturing Engineers (INT'L)
Dr. John Wen - Fellow: Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers
Congratulations to all of this year's award recipients for their outstanding work and commitment to building the engineering community.
To learn more about all of this year’s awards and recipients visit Faculty and staff honoured for excellence which highlights a few of the many recipients, and the Awards and honours page to learn about all of this year’s award winners.