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Michael Phillips and Phil Cooper, the two co-founders of Vena Medical, announced their first government approval this week for a device to remove blood clots from the brains of stroke patients. The inflatable balloon temporarily restricts blood flow while surgeons use tools to remove the clot, increasing the chances of success on the first attempt.

A professor at Waterloo Engineering has been awarded $100,000 for research on predictive tools to improve outcomes in invasive spine surgery.

The first Associate Chair Teaching position, formerly known as the Teaching Chair has been appointed to Carol Hulls. The role of the Associate Chair of Teaching is to encourage the development of instructors and promote creativity and innovation in teaching within the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.

Congratulations to Lucas Wen Tang, a junior graduate student, for becoming the recipient of a Minister of Colleges and Universities’ Award of Excellence in the Rising Star category.

Brian Mao and Ben Zhang, two graduate students from the University of Waterloo and members of a multi-university team compete at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the Indy Autonomous Challenge.

MME professor, Ehsan Toyserkani, worked in collaboration with fellow co-authors to publish a new book titled Metal Additive Manufacturing.

This textbook is one of the firsts to link the basics of fundamental undergraduate Engineering courses with metal additive manufacturing processes. It serves as an introduction to principal physical concepts, metal additive manufacturing processes, and their applications. This book can be used as foundational material for a core MME undergraduate course, as well as graduate courses.

Congratulations on two wonderful careers, Carolyn and Rick!

Although Carolyn's calendar is still jam packed with commitments (member of 3 boards of directors,  2 CSA committees, 2 ACI committees, treasurer of a Probus club, supervising 2 grad students, among others), at least she'll be removing one of them, that of teaching our undergraduates! 
 

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.