The University of Waterloo Baja SAE team designs and builds an off-road, single seat vehicle to compete annually at SAE sanctioned Baja competitions. The competition events include endurance, acceleration, top speed and manoeuvrability events. Each team is provided with a 10 horsepower engine that cannot be modified; the rest of the vehicle is designed and built from scratch every year, such as the frame, suspension, powertrain and controls.
The University of Waterloo Concrete Toboggan team competes in the annual Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR), the longest running student-based engineering competition in Canada. The Concrete Canoe Team competes in the Canadian National Concrete Canoe Competition (CNCCC). The teams' goals are to design, build and race a toboggan & canoe made entirely from concrete. Teams are judged on performance, technical design and team spirit.
Email: uwaterlooconcrete@gmail.com
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is an non-governmental organization founded by Waterloo graduates that work towards ending poverty within the world. With 34 professional and student chapters across Canada, we work to support initiatives in Ghana, Malawi, Uganda, Zambia, and many more countries. The University of Waterloo EWB chapter is committed to developing leaders with the skills and perspective necessary to create sustainable social change in local, national, and international communities, especially focusing on Indigenous communities within Canada. The UW chapter of EWB is also working towards a globalization of engineering curriculum and encourage growth within the fair trade market.
The Formula Motorsports team competes annually in the Formula SAE Competition, the the largest and most competitive student vehicle design competition in the world. The team designs, builds and races a small formula-style open wheeled race car every year. The competition includes engineering design and marketing presentations, acceleration and skid pad testing, and autocross and endurance races.
The goal of the Waterloo International Genetically Engineered Machine Team (iGEM) is to engineer biological processes like electrical and software systems, re-wiring naturally occurring genetic components using principles from synthetic biology. The team competes annually at the iGEM competition, allowing students to exploring new and exciting ways in which biological parts can be applied to real world problems.
The Midnight Sun Solar Rayce Car Team designs, manufactures, and races solar-electric cars capable of travelling on public highways. Our mission is to educate the public and promote innovation in sustainable energy technologies. Midnight Sun’s membership spans from the undergraduate level all the way to university alumni and come from all of UW’s six faculties. Our diverse team offers challenging work in the mechanical, electrical, and business disciplines, with project cycles spanning multiple years. The team competes in the American Solar Challenge and the World Solar Challenge.
The uWaterloo Robotics Team focuses on the constantly evolving field of autonomous vehicles and the team frequently takes on multiple projects and competitions each year. These competitions have included the NASA Sample Return Robot Challenge, the International Autonomous Robot Racing Challenge, the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition, the University Rover Challenge and a UW mini-sumo robotics competition as an introductory project for junior team members.
This isn't your uncle's hobby rocketry. Waterloo Rocketry builds sounding rockets that deliver 10 pounds of payload to altitudes of up to 23 000 feet. This team competes annually at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, the world’s biggest competition between undergraduate rocketry teams. The Waterloo Rocketry Team designs and builds their own rocket engine, and performs engine tests on campus. If you’re up to try literal rocket science, give this team a shout!
The Steel Bridge Design Team's focus is on designing, fabricating, and competing with a modular steel bridge at an annual international competition. The design portion requires creativity and a quick mind, with upper year team members helping to teach technical skills along the way. The fabrication team uses welders, mills, saws, and grinders to fabricate each module of the bridge. Team members will use real design codes, handbooks, and the computer software that they can expect to find in any design office.
At UWAFT we continuously break new ground in the field of sustainable transportation through innovation, technology, and student engagement. Through active community involvement we spread the message of sustainability locally, nationally, and internationally.
Every year, we design, build, and race autonomous sailboats against other universities around the world in the International Robotic Sailing Regatta and the World Robotic Sailing Championship.
Formed in 2016, UW Sailbot competed for the first time in June 2017 at the International Robotic Sailing Regatta just one year after its formation. The team was 1st out of the novice teams and finished 6th overall.
UW Sailbot has ambitious plans for 2018. The team will design and construct a longer and faster boat, improve autonomous navigation systems, and implement a computer vision system. UW Sailbot intends to finish at the top for 2018. In order to succeed, the team relies on sponsors who share our enthusiasm in sailing and robotics.
UW Sailbot is a very multidisciplinary team, with tasks for everyone to help with. The Mechanical team works on the design and manufacturing of the keel, rudder, hull etc. The Software team works on tasks ranging from RC control, to path planning, to vision/image processing. Business opportunities are numerous with opportunities in media, sponsorship and finance.
If progromming/marketing/building a boat sounds interesting to you, don’t hesitate to contact us by email team.uwsailbot@gmail.com or find us on Facebook or Instagram @uwsailbot."
The Clean Snowmobile team competes annually in the Clean Snowmobile Challenge, organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers. The competition focuses on reducing the environmental impact of snowmobiles. Each year the team modifies a stock snowmobile to reduce noise and tailpipe emissions. Events include noise and exhaust emissions, fuel economy, cold-start capabilities, acceleration and handling.
Warrior Home is a design team at the University of Waterloo focusing in the Building Science and Building Performance field. We aim to compete in the annual Race-to-Zero Design Competition hosted by the Department of Energy. From doing so, we will be building a foundation of knowledge to be used in order to improve the houses built by Habitat for Humanity Waterloo Region. Our goal of improving Habitat for Humanity Homes will be achieved by optimizing the use of donated materials, developing installation details and changing the volunteer mentality from common practice to best practice. We work with the University’s Campus Chapter to fundraise money in order to have our design built in the local community. We’re a cross-disciplinary design team with members studying in various fields. Everyone is welcome to join!
Website: www.uofwhabitat.ca
Email: warriorhome@uofwhabitat.ca
Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/warriorhome
The Waterloo Aerial Robotics Group provides support to all student-run unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) projects at Waterloo. These projects have included fixed wing aircraft for theUnmanned Systems Canada Competition and a fire detection quadrotor for a capston design project. The team also hosts engineering design competitions for upper year students at Waterloo.
Waterloo Electric (formerly Waterloo Hybrid) is an engineering design team dedicated to designing, building and competing race cars with electric powertrains. The team competes at the Formula SAE Electric competition in Lincoln, Nebraska. Unlike most motorsports programs, Waterloo Electric actively strives to achieve a unique mix of both performance and sustainability. The team is focused on advancing electric vehicle technology both for competitive and real world applications.
The Waterloo Institute of Industrial Engineers (WIIE) Chapter is dedicated to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. The WIIE Chapter provides support for management and industrial engineering through networking with professional engineers other industrial engineering institutions. WIIE annually competes against other IIE chapters across Canada during the IIE Annual Student Conference.
Website: iie.uwaterloo.ca/
Email: iie@uwaterloo.ca
The University of Waterloo Satellite team (WatSAT) designs and constructs nanosatellites for the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge. The purpose of the competition is to design a 10 × 10 × 30 cm satellite weighing less than 4 kg that will perform a science mission in low-earth orbit for one year. The Canadian Satellite Design Challenge is a unique opportunity for students to work on genuinely space-worthy hardware, and the winning entry will be launched into space.
The Waterloo Submarine Racing Team is the 1st human-powered submarine racing team established in Ontario, and one of the very few active teams in Canada. The underwater challenge involves designing, marketing, manufacturing, testing, and racing a human-powered submarine in competitions around the globe on a yearly basis. The team is currently competing in the International Submarine Races (US) and the European International Submarine Races (UK).
The Waterloop project is the response by a group of dedicated University of Waterloo students to the SpaceX Hyperloop pod challenge to independently design and build a prototype Hyperloop pod to be tested on a one-mile test track in Hawthorne, California in the summer of 2016.
