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Congratulations to Jim Baleshta, Allyson Giannikouris, Jian Zhou, and Eugene Li on becoming the recipients of the Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award and the honorees of the Faculty’s outstanding teaching excellence and staff awards.

Congratulations to Peter Cornelisse and Lucas Godkin, both fourth-year mechanical engineering students, for receiving $25,000 as the winners of the NU National Student Award for Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship.

MME professor, Hamid Jahed, and Postdoctoral Fellow, Ali Roostaei, worked in collaboration to publish a new book titled the Cyclic Plasticity of Metals: Modeling Fundamentals and Applications.

Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, former MME students, are amongst the 20-something founders of an autonomous trucking company now valued at approximately US $5-billion.

It was 2015. Rodrigues and Moak, his undergraduate classmate in the mechatronics engineering program, had built the cart – the first autonomous vehicle in Canada – in his parents’ garage.

The WATonoBus is making history as it picks up passengers on the University of Waterloo’s Ring Road.

What some say could be the future of public transportation in Whitby has a top speed of 20 kilometres per hour. For safety reasons, that’s as fast as the new eight-seater driverless vehicle will be travelling when they start transporting their first passengers. The six-kilometer route, which the vehicle will follow, is said to be the longest AV circuit in Canada to date and will be in use within the next few weeks.

Congratulations to Xianguo Li for joining the new journal, Frontiers in Thermal Engineering, as Field Chief Editor.

Congratulations to first-year MME student, Mulei Mao of Scarborough, for being among the first 10 recipients of $30,000 scholarships from Amazon.