News

"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.

Read more at the link here

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.

Read more at the link here

​​​​​​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.

Read the paper online here

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!