PhD candidate Brock Laschowski won 4th Prize Best Poster Award for his research on machine vision for controlling autonomous lower-limb prostheses and exoskeletons at IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (from over 450 posters total)
The Ontario Society Of Professional Engineers (OSPE) question and answer with Professor John McPhee [interview link].
Members of the Motion Research Group attended the 2019 IAVSD Workshop on Connected and Automated in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Professor John McPhee received both the Faculty of Engineering 2018 Award of Excellence in Graduate Supervision and 2018 Teaching Excellence Award. Congratulations!
Brock Laschowski and Keaton Inkol have been awarded the University of Waterloo Engineering Excellence PhD Fellowships (each valued at $120,000).
Prof. John McPhee discusses the latest advancements in automotive systems engineering, specifically autonomous navigation and electrification.
Prof. John McPhee delivered the keynote address at the 2018 Asian Conference on Multibody Dynamics (ACMD) in China entitled "Multibody Dynamics and Model-Based Control: From Cars to Humans". The conference was hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in associated with the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM).
PhD students Valerie Norman-Gerum and Mahdokht Ezati recently presented their research entitled "Predictive Simulation of Sit-to-Stand" and "Forward Dynamics of Human Vertical Jump Considering Ellipsoidal Volumetric Foot-Ground Contact Model" at the 2018 Biennial Meeting of the Canadian Society for Biomechanics (CSB) in Nova Scotia and 2018 World Congress of Biomechanics in Ireland, respectively.
