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A startup company with deep roots at Waterloo Engineering won the top prize in a pitch contest focused on the use of nanomaterials to create or improve commercial products.
AquaSensing, which designs battery-free water leak detection systems for healthcare and industrial applications, took home $10,000, plus a spot in a virtual incubator, in the Nanomaterials Virtual Pitch Contest staged by not-for-profit NanoOntario and CMC Microsystems, a not-for-profit managing Canada’s National Design Network®.

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.

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.

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.

Shanaya Barretto, an incoming MTE student has won a Shulich Leader Scholarship for 2021, valued at $100,000.  Barretto graduated from St. Joseph Secondary School.

Congratulations to Arash Arami, and Sean Peterson for publishing their paper: Accurate Blood Pressure Estimation during Activities of Daily Living: A Wearable Cuffless Solution and being selected as one of the 10 Featured Articles on the topic of Sensor Informatics in vol.25, issue 7 of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Healt

Congratulations to professor Yimin Wu for being selected to join the editorial board of the Journal: Energy & Environmental Materials (EEM).

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.