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A medical startup company headed by an MME alumnus has secured $20 million in new funding to fuel expansion and the development and commercialization of its flagship product.

Nicoya Lifesciences, co-founded in 2012 by Ryan Denomme (BASc’10, nanontechnology engineering, MASc ’12, mechanical engineering), is based in Kitchener and has over 100 employees.  Continue reading

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.

Kevin's research was featured in AIP SciLight, Covering Surfaces with Copper Destroys Coronavirus. The group found that thin films of the metal could have virucidal uses on common surfaces, masks. They tested different antiviral coatings against a coronavirus and found that only the Cu-containing coatings killed the virus.

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.

Carolyn Ren was named among the top 100 most powerful women in Canada in the annual rankings released by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN). This year’s list from the University of Waterloo also includes Jacqueline Beckford-Henriques, Suzanne Kearns, Anita Layton, Carolyn Ren and Pearl Sullivan (in memoriam). 

WXN rankings are widely seen as a measure of exceptional impact for leadership in business, research, the arts, public administration and community advocacy.