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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: uwconcreteteam@uwaterloo.ca
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 University of Waterloo Industry 4.0 design team is focused on promoting the unique Management Engineering program offered here at the University.
Our team designs and organizes an "industry 4.0"-theme competition for high school students across the country to participate in and learn about these concepts in a fun and engaging manner.
The members of our team get the opportunity to plan and execute a competition from scratch and deal with all the various components that go into such a project, all the while learning more about our field. We also work with a custom scale factory that we model the competition after. This side of the team allows our members to get involved and develop the skills required to build and maintain such a factory.
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.
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.
IISE is the world's largest professional society dedicated to the support of the industrial & systems engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. The UWaterloo IISE Chapter was formed in 2012 and has since gone on to provide countless opportunities and services for students to reach their full potential.
Website: www.uwaterlooiise.com
Email: info@uwaterlooiise.com
UW Blueprint strives to make technology accessible and useful for those who create communities and promote public welfare. We are a group of students dedicated to building and promoting technology for social good. We partner with non-profits to provide technology services such as web applications, mobile applications and analysis tools—free of charge.
Blueprint was founded in 2012 at UC Berkeley. The University of Waterloo is Blueprint's first chapter outside of UC Berkeley.
UW REACT keeps the spirit of the FIRST Robotics Competition alive after high school by building fully autonomous FRC robots. We design, manufacture, program, and compete against other FRC teams, but without using a human driver. We also host the worlds largest Robot in 3 Days event every year, where two teams of students build FRC robots in just 72 hours, completing the entire FRC challenge 40 days before bag and tag.
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 programming/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 Warrior Home Design Team is a multidisciplinary student design team at the University of Waterloo working towards implementing a high-performance, sustainable, and net-zero energy building in the affordable housing market. Each year the team hopes to partner with a community that seeks to improve building design with a focus on sustainability and resilience.
In 2019 Warrior Home partnered with The Chippewas of Nawash, an indigenous community settled along the Grey Bruce peninsula on the Neyaashiiningmiing reserve, and Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce. The optimized design, centred around energy efficiency and best construction practices, is an innovative and an affordable single detached home that is molded around the community's unique needs while minimizing utility bills, as well as reduce the initial price of the home.
Members of the Warrior Home Design Team will spend 2019 volunteering with Habitat for Humanity Grey Bruce to build the house and bring the design to life.
Each year Warrior Home will be entering a design into the US Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon. Warrior Home will be competing and showcasing the design at the National Mall at the 2020 Folklife Festival in Washington, DC. Last year, Warrior Home participated in the 2018 US Department of Energy's Race to Zero Design Competition. Competing alongside 84 teams, Warrior Home's optimized Habitat for Humanity townhouse placed first in the attached housing category.
Website: www.uofwhabitat.ca
Email: uofwhfhwarriorhome@gmail.com
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/company/warrior-home
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.
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 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.
WatLock is a diverse student design team with a mission to prototype an airlock for human habitation on Mars. We are preparing for Phase II of the University of British Columbia's Project Airlock Challenge in August 2020. With the innovative ideas of our business, mechanical and electrical sub-teams, WatLock hopes to address the many challenges of space exploration, space engineering and space colonization!
WATonomous is transforming a stock Chevrolet Bolt Electric Vehicle into a fully autonomous vehicle! We are 1 of 8 teams selected to compete in the SAE AutoDrive Challenge annually until the end of the competition in 2020. We have several sponsors supplying us with many of the sensors, software, computing platforms, and the Chevrolet Bolt EV itself, needed to complete this challenge.
