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Bronwyn Forrest, Paolo Dominelli and Beth Weckmanwere recently granted a 2021 Catalyst Grant from the Network for Aging Research to study specific concerns related to the impact of fire gases and smoke on the ability of elderly and mobility impaired occupants to egress from burning structures. They are one of five teams that received the 2021 Catalyst Grant this Spring.

Congratulations to Alexander DiPaola, who recently graduated from MME, has won an NSERC CGS-M award for his research entitled “Heat Release Rate in Under-Ventilated Compartment Fires” under the supervision of Beth Weckman at the UW Fire Research Labs.

Beth Weckman, an MME professor, was recently awarded the Dougal Drysdale Award for Extraordinary Service to the International Association of Fire Safety Science in organizing the 13^th IAFSS Symposium twice. Professor Weckman organized the 2020 symposium in person and this year, 2021, virtually.

The Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer 7th Edition

Congratulations to Professor Kyle Daun on publishing a new textbook on thermal radiation heat transfer. The textbook is one of the two main textbooks on thermal radiation heat transfer, and they have approximately 50% market share each.

Mechanical engineering students namely, Benjamin Beazley, Collin Bolt, Galen Fernandes, Alexsa Laddaran, Jillian Lee, Rebecca Wong, and Gongyi Zhang received six trophies including second place overall in the Solar Decathlon Build Challenge and first place in the Financial Feasibility & Affordability category. Congratulations to all of our dedicated and talented winners!

Between April 19 – 30^th 2021, UWaterloo Fire Research Labs hosted the largest ever and very successful 13^th Virtual International Symposium on Fire Safety Science with over 620 attendees from around the globe! The event began with a week of specialty workshops on topics ranging from Human Behaviour in Fire to Li-ion Battery Fires and including Modelling and Simulation of Fires, Compartment and Timber Structure Fires, Wildland Fires and Smart FireFighting Technology.

On March 30th and 31st, MME's 4th-year Capstone Design Symposium events were held virtually and showcased our latest and greatest in terms of talent and innovation. This year, there were over 100+ senior teams showcasing their projects and competing for a selection of awards from best product design, web design, prototype, inovation, presention quality etc. Below are the results and conclusions of this year's award winners.

Congratulations to the winners and to everyone that participated in the event!

This past Wednesday April 7th, at the Norman Esch pitch competition, a pitch competition amongst the entire UWaterloo Engineering faculty, 4 of the 6 ten-thousand dollar prizes were awarded to teams from the MME department (2 Mechanical, 2 Mechatronics). Mechanical engineering team, Bless Your Sole, earned an additional $3,000 as the winner of the Sedra People’s Choice Award.

Take a brief look at each of our winning teams below:

On March 17, 2021, the Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering community gathered together to celebrate and learn about the innovative research taking place in the department at the 4th annual MME Graduate Research Symposium.

With the largest attendance to date, this event had many other “firsts”. It was the first time the event was held online, the first collaboration and sponsorship from the Conrad School of Entrepreneurship and Business and featured the first ever entrepreneurship award.

AquaSensing, a tech startup started by MME professor Norman Zhou and ECE professor George Shaker, have earned a spot in the finals of an international pitch competition for water innovation.

The duo booked its spot in the global Water Dragons pitch competition after winning second place in the preliminal round against eight other companies.

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MME research team earns the 2021 Catalyst Grant

MME graduate wins the NSERC CGS-M award

MME professor awarded the Dougal Drysdale Award for Exceptional Service

MME Professor published a textbook

MME students win six trophies in building competition

Fire Research Labs host 13th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science

Winners of the 2021 MME Capstone 4th-year Project Symposium

MME finalists sweep the competition at innovation pitch

2021 MME Graduate Research Symposium highlights

MME professor's startup moving on to finals in international pitch competition

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