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The University of Waterloo is partnering Tsinghua University in Beijing, China on a research collaboration centre that will advance science in the areas of nanotechnology, energy, and pollution control.

The centre—known as Tsinghua University – University of Waterloo Joint Research Centre for Micro/Nano Energy & Environment Technology—officially opened on March 29.

In this year's University-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering's very own PhD candidate, Arun Das, was awarded the People's Choice Award.

Arun's presentation describes his PhD research of enhancing the "eyes" of self driving cars in less than three minutes. His crowd pleasing presentation can be viewed below.

Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering's very own graduate student, Elahe Jabari, has been chosen as one of the top ten University of Waterloo finalists for the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition.

We encourage everyone to cheer on Elahe during the final competition which will be held on Thursday, April 2, from 2:30 until 4:30 p.m. in the Humanities Theatre, Hagey Hall.

For more information on the 3MT Competition please visit their main website.

Right Willem Petersen and left John McPhee

John McPhee, a systems design engineering professor, and Willem Petersen, a systems design engineering postdoc, captured one of two best paper awards at the recent ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies held in Portland Oregon.

Ibraheem Khan (MASc, PhD, mechanical) presented his Waterloo Engineering research on shape memory alloys during his keynote address at the Medical Manufacturing Innovations Conference held in Toronto at the end of October. Khan's doctoral thesis was on the discovery of Multiple Memory Material Technology for which he and Norman Zhou, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor, are co-inventors. Kahn is currently president and CTO of Smarter Alloys and a research associate at the University of Waterloo's Centre for Advanced Materials Joining.