The collaboration of the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering and Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy has led to an innovative production that will significantly improve the detection of COVID-19.
Four professors in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering have been awarded $4.4 million total from the Ontario Research Fund (ORF) to support research that will help drive innovation towards the province’s future.
Two professors in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering have been awarded funding to support their research as part of the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program. This program invests money to retain and attract some of the world’s most promising researchers.
Congratulations to MME’s very own Dr. Roydon Fraser for being named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers 2024 ™ list created by Clarivate. This prestigious honour highlights researchers who have been a significant influence in their fields of research.
Back in 2004, the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing (MSAM) Lab was established in a tiny but valuable 150-square-foot space in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. Twenty years later, it is the largest metal additive manufacturing academic research lab in Canada, housing over $25 million in infrastructure and is one of the best university-based research facilities in the world.
Mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor Dr. Yue Hu is co-leading a project with Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering that will address critical education gaps in the rapidly evolving domain of robotics cybersecurity and have been awarded $1 million in funding from the National Cybersecurity Consortium. Because robot technology moves so fast, many times, it outpaces the development of necessary cybersecurity measures.
It is with great sadness that we have learned that Professor Emeritus John Medley passed away on Wednesday, October 16th, after a long and courageous battle with cancer.
Researchers in MME's Micro Nano-Scale Transport Lab are working to reduce the risk of dangerous blood clots for patients who receive heart transplants in a collaborative effort with a team from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The research team found that a heart valve implant with a textured surface is less likely to lead to the formation of blood clots – or thrombosis.
Dr. Sushanta Mitra, one of our professors in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, has been selected as a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society (ECS) for his contributions to sensor technology for water quality monitoring and the deployment of sensors in communities and industries.
On June 26th, it was announced that four groups of students and two teams were winners of the Society for Manufacturing Engineers (SME) Digital Manufacturing Challenge. Dr. Mihaela Vlasea, a professor of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, supervised the students in collaboration with PhD student Daniel Juhasz, who specifically advised the undergraduate team.