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Ashutosh Syal (BASc ’14, Systems Design) was on track

to become a Toronto Bay Street trader when John Zelek

presented his third-year class with an issue. Hundreds of

millions people in the developing world have uncorrected

vision problems, said the Waterloo systems design

engineering professor. The mobile eye camps that serve

rural areas simply can’t keep pace with demand. Meanwhile,

many discarded smartphones end up overseas.

Our 2B SYDE students, Katharine Carras, will be featured on a radio show today at 1:30. She is going to talk about working at Kik as a co-op and the Kik Codes Project. You can listen live at 570news.com

Jennifer Howcroft

All of the SYDE 361 groups consented to having their group photos taken, and they can be found here for your viewing pleasure:

Photos.

Class of 2B

Class of SYDE 2B Dean's honors students with Undergraduate chair Prof. Carolyn MacGregor and Department Chair Prof. Paul Fieguth

Class of SYDE 1A

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 Open Source Ecology group is planning its first workshop August 8 - 10th at DIYode in Guelph. Over the weekend they will be building a few mini power cubes while learning different skills in crash courses (design, CAD, welding). It looks like it will be a fantastic time!

Here is the link for the workshop with all the information and the registration at the bottom:

http://opensourceecologyuw.com/workshops

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

Current students

Improving vision in the developing world

SYDE student on a radio show

PhD student honoured with P.E.O. Sisterhood scholar award.

SYDE 361 Symposium Photos

Dean's Honors List - Fall 2014

Design exhibit showcases Internet of Things

Startup taps into maker market with a DIY soldering iron

SYDE student was selected into the 2015 Class of Young Entrepreneurs by The Next 36.

Open Source Ecology group

The Canadian Open Data Experience (CODE) Hackathon.

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