Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Student Awards Reception
Dean's Honour List winners and Work Report Winners of BME & SYDE students.
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Thursday, November 12, 2015
Biomedical and Systems Design Global Health/Engineering 1st Year Design Projects
A presentation of design solutions and prototypes that attempt to solve global health and engineering design problems in developing nations:
- indoor air quality
- water access and transportation
- medical access and transportation
- many more
Friday, Nov, 27th, 2:30 - 5:00 pm
UW Main Campus E5 - 6th Floor
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Improving vision in the developing world
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.
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Hack the North Encore
Bouncy castle? Check. Bubble soccer balls? Check. Enough
Red Bull ® and poutine to fuel over 1,000 hackers throughout
the weekend? Check and check. The University of Waterloo
students organizing Hack the North 2015 know exactly what
it takes to pull off Canada’s largest international hackathon.
Last year, they attracted more than 1,000 students from
around the world to the first Hack the North for 36 hours
of coding, hardware development, plus a lot of fun.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
SYDE student on a radio show
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
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
PhD student honoured with P.E.O. Sisterhood scholar award.
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Dean's Honors List - Fall 2014
Class of SYDE 2B Dean's honors students with Undergraduate chair Prof. Carolyn MacGregor and Department Chair Prof. Paul Fieguth
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
SYDE 361 Symposium Photos
All of the SYDE 361 groups consented to having their group photos taken, and they can be found here for your viewing pleasure:
Monday, July 20, 2015
Design exhibit showcases Internet of Things
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:
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Startup taps into maker market with a DIY soldering iron
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]