Class of SYDE 2B Dean's honors students with Undergraduate chair Prof. Carolyn MacGregor and Department Chair Prof. Paul Fieguth
Systems Design Engineering students will exhibit product designs that are themed around the Internet-of-Things (IOT) this week.
15 student groups in a third-year Systems Design Engineering course will present and demonstrate various product design prototypes.
The student groups were each required to select from a taxonomy of IOT application areas, namely:
The maker movement — a global do-it-yourself culture of people who make things — has inspired a group of Waterloo Engineering students to create a soldering iron that’s safe and easy to use.
“We specifically designed the Solder Otter for the Maker Market,” said Vanessa Guido, a systems design engineering student and chief executive officer of Solder Otter. “We’ve had a lot of great feedback on our product.” [Read more]
One of our current 4B students, Amin Ghafelehbashi was selected into the 2015 Class of Young Entrepreneurs by The Next 36.
The University of Waterloo Stratford Campus is excited to be an official hub for The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) Hackathon. CODE is the first national Open Data hackathon in Canada – a 48 hour competition where participants compete to build the best app utilizing federal government data from the Canadian Open Data Portal (http://www.data.gc.ca).
When: Friday, February 28, 2014 to Sunday March 2, 2014
Where: University of Waterloo Stratford Campus
Ontario Centres of Excellence’s annual Discovery conference
will again feature the popular Student Video Competition
Join us May 27 & 28
Picture yourself a winner!
Attention young innovators: It's your chance to broadcast your new technology, innovation or start-up idea to the movers and shakers of the science and technology industry, attracting invaluable advice on how to turn your concept into a reality.