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Researchers at Waterloo Engineering have developed a tiny, battery-free, self-powering sensor that could dramatically reduce the cost of protecting buildings from damaging water leaks.

The new device, housed in a box just three centimetres square, is the product of a collaboration between professors Norman Zhou and George Shaker.

MME MASc graduate, Emanuel Santos, selected as one of five Next-Generation Manufacturing Leaders for 2019 for Canadian Fabricating & Welding.   A diversity of skills made Emanuel, a welding engineer, stand out and is recognized as a leader in the industry whose talents and willingness to share their knowledge, are demonstrating a commitment to growing and improving Canada’s manufacturing backbone.

How will A.I., object recognition, affective computing and machine learning change the world?  The Age of AI, an eight part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. that Talos and other researchers from the RoboHub participated in this past year, has been released and the first four episodes began airing December 18th, 2019.  The series filmed Talos and a few of their researchers over several days on campus and is narrated by Robert Downey Jr.

Toyota Canada helps drive innovation forward with its largest single donation to a Canadian university.  They will launch a unique undergraduate engineering innovation challenge and support a variety of student, research and outreach initiatives.  In recognition of TMMC’s financial support, a wing on the third floor of the university’s Engineering 7 building which is dedicated to faculty and student research in Additive Manufacturing, will be renamed the Toyota Additive Manufacturing Wing. The funding will also enable the Toyota Engineering Innovation Challenge which will involve a ha

Congratulations to Devon Hartlen, Hossein Pishyar, Raphael Boulis and Bruna Do Nascimento Figueredo for their noteworthy achievement.

The Italian Technology Awards program is a competition that invites applications from graduate students attending international universities (outside of Italy) who are conducting research on an array of topics relevant to innovations and challenges facing various manufacturing sectors in their countries or globally. 

The 2019 AIST Howe Memorial Lecture Award went to Carolyn Hansson in May, following her delivery of the Lecture at AISTech.  She was awarded the Howe Memorial Lecture “for exceptional research and technology transfer related to the integrity of infrastructure for society. Her holistic approach to investigating the corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete has broadened the understanding of this critical aspect of construction.

Rohan Agarwal and Mustafa Shahbaz were selected out of thousands around the world to attend the Forbes Under 30 Scholar Summit.  They were nominated and selected for their achievements at the University of Waterloo, and for their internship experience gained with the assistance of Waterloo's Co-op Department.

Yimin Wu, whose paper achieved cover article status, 'Facet-dependent active sites of a single Cu2O particle photocatalyst for CO₂ reduction to methanol', and has been published in Nature Energy this week.  The new technology was inspired by the way plants use energy from sunlight to turn carbon dioxide into food.

We’d like to acknowledge and thank the student and faculty volunteers who contributed their time and energy this past Saturday.  
The team was busy all day giving tours, presentations, and speaking with an estimated 900-1,000 people looking for information on our department programs.  Thanks to the student team leads John Hanna (ME) and Kanvar Rakhraj (MTE), and faculty volunteers (James Tung, Cliff Butcher, Allyson Giannikouris, Baris Fidan, Kamyar Ghavam). 

OMAC, the organization for machine automation and control, presented William Melek and Soo Jeon with the cheque at PACK EXPO Las Vegas. 

The Grant will support ongoing research in mechatronic automation in manufacturing. 

https://www.omac.org/omac-presents-5000-grant-to-university-of-waterloo-mechatronics-lab