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Every year, staff and faculty of the Faculty of Engineering here at the University of Waterloo gather for the engineering award lunch. The Faculty of Engineering hosts this lunch as an opportunity to celebrate staff and faculty for their amazing work in research, teaching, and service, building the faculty into the wonderful place to work and learn that it is.

Congratulations to all of this year's award recipients for their outstanding work and commitment to building the engineering community.

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Team SERA, a new collaboration between the Active and Interactive Robotics (AIR) Lab and the Orthopaedic Mechatronics (ORTHOtron) Lab, led by master's students Jeffrey Lee and Teresa Marotta, Dr. Stewart McLachlin, and Dr. Yue Hu from the department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering has been established to combine the expertise of both labs for a new surgical robotics project for the international KUKA Innovation Award 2025 - Medical Robotics Challenge 2.0.

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The inCiTe™ 3D X-ray Microscope will be used in projects led by Dr. Stewart McLachlin, a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at Waterloo, who conducts biomedical research as part of the Orthopaedic Mechatronics Laboratory.

"This is very exciting as this equipment allows us to see inside biological tissues and medical devices to understand how the internal microstructure is formed and deformed under varied conditions,” said McLachlin, who leads the new lab with Dr. Naveen Chandrashekar.

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"Being big hockey fans, we were both interested in a news story about NHL player Jack Eichel, who was in a battle with his team to get a spinal disc replacement," said Jonah Leinwand, co-founder of Pliantech, and biomedical engineering undergraduate student in University of Waterloo's Faculty of Engineering. "From there, the wheels for Pliantech started turning, and now this has become full-time work for me." 

The artificial disc replacement design that Leinwand and Pliantech’s other co-founder – Dr. Stewart McLachlin, an assistant professor in mechanical and mechatronics engineering – invented was feted by judges as one of the winners of the Fall 2023 Velocity Pitch Competition last month.

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A team from Waterloo Engineering was recognized this week at the largest event in North America for the additive manufacturing industry.

Sagar Patel and Martine McGregor won the 2021 Digital Manufacturing Challenge at the RAPID + TCT conference in Chicago for a project that involves the rapid deployment of prosthesis assemblies in emergency medicine.

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​​​​​​Dan completed his MSc degree requirements with his seminar presentation on “Compensatory movement simulation of subacromial impingement syndrome kinematics using an asymptomatic group for rehabilitative shoulder exercises.” Congratulations Dan!

In collaboration with researchers at the Sunnybrook Research Institute and Polytechnique Montréal, Professor McLachlin published a study that examined visualization of spinal cord tractography using diffusion tensor imaging.

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Aleks completed his PhD comprehensive for his thesis work entitled: “Computational Modeling of the Cervical Spinal Cord: Investigation of Impact Response and Injury Risk.” Congratulations Aleks!

Matheus completed his MASc degree requirements with his thesis seminar entitled: “Optimization of Neck Musculature Activation for Head Kinematics in Frontal, Lateral and Rear Impact Simulations”. Congratulations Matheus!

​​​​​​Martine was awarded an Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) PGS Scholarship towards her PhD research studying spinal implant fixation and loosening. Congratulations Martine!