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John McPhee, Tenured Professor of Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Biomechatronic System Dynamics, has been awarded the 2019 Ontario Professional Engineers Association (OPEA) Medal of Engineering Excellence for his influential contributions toward the a

Professors Arash Arami and John McPhee have been awarded the John R. Evans Leaders Fund by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (valued at $182,000) for their collaborative research “Neuromechanics-Based Assistive Robotics: Towards Optimal Personalized Robotic Assistance”.

Motion Research Group reunites with graduate alumni Dr. Matthew Millard, Dr. Mohammad Shourijeh, and Dr. Ajay Seth at 2019 International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics (TGCS) associated with the International Society of Biomechanics Conference in Calgary, Canada.

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!

William McNally was awarded the Best Overall Paper Award at the 2018 Conference on Vision and Intelligent Systems for his research "Action Recognition using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Compressed Spatio-Temporal Pose Encodings". Congratulations William!
 

Brok Laschowski and Keaton Inkol were awarded the University of Waterloo Engineering Excellence PhD Fellowship, valued at $120,000. Both students are also recipients of the national PhD scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). 

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).