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Congratulations to MME prof Roydon Fraser, President-Elect of PEO!

Sanjeev Bedi, a professor of mechanical and mechatronics (MME) engineering, who has a deep belief in the power of experiential education, is the 2022 winner of a Medal of Distinction in Engineering Education awarded at a gala in Toronto this week by Engineers Canada.

Four friends and Mechatronics Engineering students at the University of Waterloo – Matt Rendall (BASc ’08, MBET ’09), Ryan Gariepy (BASc ’09, MASc ’12), Pat Martinson (BASc ’09), and Bryan Webb (BASc ’09) – started building robots 13 years ago.

Mohammed Nassar, lecturer in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, has won the following teaching excellence awards:

Novel Microfluidics-Enabled Soft Robotic Sleeve Enables Lymphedema Treatment.

Breast cancer survivors commonly suffer from lymphedema due to a high risk of lymph node damage or removal during surgical procedures.

Yue Hu, an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering and one of the co-chairs of the Technical Committee on Model-Based Optimization for Robotics, which has been recently announced as a recipient of the

Congratulations to Carolyn Hansson, who has been awarded the Robert E. Philleo Award by the ACI Foundation’s Concrete Research Council.

Avidbots partners with the University to improve the efficiency of their autonomous floor cleaning robot, Neo.

The first Ninja Delivery store was set up on Sunview Street in Waterloo. Founded by Wesley Yue, a mechatronics engineering alumni, and fellow co-founders Michael Markevich and Gonzalo Graham. The company boasts a 10-minute courier service in Waterloo’s university district and has recently expanded to Toronto.

Seven University of Waterloo researchers were awarded funding through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund.

The funding was part of a national announcement of $45-million by the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry and the Honourable Jean-Yves Duclos, Minister of Health.