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Wednesday, September 15, 2021

New Faculty Announcement: Yue Hu

Yue Hu's research interests mainly focus on physical human-robot interaction, optimal control, human motion analysis, and humanoid robots. Prior to joining the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo as an Assistant Professor, Yue had lived and worked in many different places and countries.

A team from Waterloo Engineering was recognized this week at the largest event in North America for the additive manufacturing industry.

Sagar Patel and Martine McGregor won the 2021 Digital Manufacturing Challenge at the RAPID + TCT conference in Chicago for a project that involves the rapid deployment of prosthesis assemblies in emergency medicine.

Hamid Jahed holding suspension arm

Congratulations to Hamid Jahed, Mary Wells, and Steve Lambert for becoming the recipients of the 2021 IMA Awards of Excellence. The award was given to the project group whom have been working in collaboration with Multimatic, Canmet Materials and Ford Motor Company over the past five years.

Congratulations to PhD student Ahmed Saieed for winning the 2021 Graduate Scholarship Award from the CFD Society of Canada. The award is a national-level recognition and was created in 2005 to encourage graduate students to pursue the topic of computational fluid dynamics in their thesis. Each year, up to two students are awarded $4,000 scholarships and applicants must be a full-time Master or PhD student and an active member of the CFDSC.

Three MME professors, Zhao Pan, XiaoYu Wu and Yimin Wu, will receive a total of $264,900 under a federal program designed to give exceptional researchers the tools and equipment needed to become leaders in their fields. This grant was financed through a federal program to assist researchers and $77 million was given out to support 332 researchers across Canada.