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Friday, June 4, 2021

MME professors win 2020 Outstanding Performance Awards

"I am very pleased to announce the Outstanding Performance Award recipients for 2020 and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo," writes James Rush, vice-president, academic & provost.

Congratulations to our MME professors who have been awarded a 2020 Outstanding Performance Award. The winners of the award include: 

professor Vlasea
Thursday, June 3, 2021

MME prof one of "most influential" in smart manufacturing

Congratulations to Mihaela Vlasea for her accomplishments and continued aspirations as Smart Manufacturing magazine named her one of the 20 most influential academics. Mihaela was instrumental in helping to open the doors of her metal additive manufacturing lab to companies interested in trying out the advanced technology. Her focus is on metal additive manufacturing, with a sub-focus on binder jetting and powder bed fusion. Read more on the FOE news page

The portrait of Bronwyn Forrest
Monday, May 17, 2021

MME PhD wins two awards for her research

PhD student in MME, Bronwyn Forrest, has won two awards, an NSERC – CGSD Award and also a Student Research Award from SFPE for her research entitled “Human Physiological Response to Fire Exposure: A Comprehensive Model”.  As cross-disciplinary research, Bronwyn will complete her research at the UW Fire Research Labs under the co-supervision of Paolo Dominelli in Kinesiology and Beth Weckman in MME.

The logo for Network for Aging Research
Monday, May 17, 2021

MME research team earns the 2021 Catalyst Grant

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. 

Monday, May 17, 2021

MME graduate wins the NSERC CGS-M award

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.

Monday, May 17, 2021

MME professor awarded the Dougal Drysdale Award for Exceptional Service

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 13th IAFSS Symposium twice. Professor Weckman organized the 2020 symposium in person and this year, 2021, virtually.

The Thermal Radiation Heat Transfer 7th Edition
Friday, May 14, 2021

MME Professor published a textbook

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.

Wednesday, May 5, 2021

MME students win six trophies in building competition

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!

Screenshot of Zoom IAFSS meeting
Saturday, May 1, 2021

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

Between April 19 – 30th 2021, UWaterloo Fire Research Labs hosted the largest ever and very successful 13th 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.

MTE Awards presentation
Wednesday, April 14, 2021

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

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!