Sarah completed her MASc degree requirements with her thesis seminar on “Investigation of a Robotic-Assisted Monocular Optical Tracking System for Navigated Spine Surgery using Modular Patient Reference Trackers”. Congratulations Sarah!
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.
Anandita completed her MASc degree requirements with her thesis seminar on "Design and Development of Instrumented Foot Form for Testing of Metatarsal Protective Footwear." Congratulations Anandita!
Teresa completed her MASc degree requirements with her thesis seminar on "Investigating the Role of the Femoral Tunnel Position on Knee Biomechanics in ACL Reconstruction.” Congratulations Teresa!
Matheus completed his PhD degree requirements with his thesis seminar on "Investigation of Neck Posture and Muscle Activity on Cervical Spine Impact Kinematics: Using a Finite Element Human Body Model." Congratulations Matheus!
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.
Richard completed his MASc degree requirements with his thesis seminar on “Design and characterization of additively manufactured compliant features for spinal implants.” Congratulations Richard!
Jonathan completed his MASc degree requirements with his thesis seminar on “Detection of Cervical Spine Vertebrae on MRI towards Improving Multi-modal Image Registration.” Congratulations Jonathan!
Martine completed her PhD degree requirements with her thesis seminar on "Integrated Investigations of Lumbar Spine Biomechanics, Implant Fixation, and Design for Additive Manufacturing under Physiologic Loading." Congratulations Martine!
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.