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Two of our MME graduate students just won Best Poster Presentation Award at the American Filtration and Seperations Society 2017 Annual Conference, April 10-14, Louisville, KY, USA. 

Joerg Ahne, PhD student, 2nd Place award, for his research work on "Electrospun Ceria Nanofibers for Diesel Soot Filtration." Joerg is co-supervised byZhongchao Tan and Eric Croiset.

Ben Tan, MASc student, 3rd Place award, for his research on "Evaluation of Laser Based Particle Sensors". Ben is co-supervised by Zhongchao Tan and Tao Chen.

Congratulations for your amazing work!

2017 3M National Teaching Fellowship

George Dufault Medal for Excellence in Communication

The George Dufault Medal is awarded annually to the graduating student in the 4B term in Engineering who has demonstrated excellence in communication ability through the submission of outstanding work-term reports and the oral presentation of one of these reports in a competition held during the last (4B) term of the academic program.

University of Waterloo has become a magnet for companies such as Google and Amazon

In this year's University-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering's very own PhD candidate, Arun Das, was awarded the People's Choice Award.

Arun's presentation describes his PhD research of enhancing the "eyes" of self driving cars in less than three minutes. His crowd pleasing presentation can be viewed below.

Velocity Fund awards $35K to drone company to improve commercial flight times

A robot designed to safely defuse landmines without an explosion was one of six major winners at the 2016 Norman Esch Capstone Design Awards competition for University of Waterloo engineering students.

Landmine Boys’ five founders are mechanical engineering students who will graduate this spring. Their impressive pitch won them $10,000 to help cover startup and other costs.

The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.

2016 Canadian Engineering Competition - Compétition Canadienne D'ingénierie

The 2016 Canadian Engineering Competition took place at McGill University on March 3^rd-6^th.