At the annual Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards, two teams from Systems Design Engineering won prizes this year:
- PhysioBuddy (Shirley Ng, Kassandra Predovic, Ritu Shah, Elizaveta Vorobieva) won $10,000, and
- Hiza (Sanhar Balachandran, Sadruddin Hashmani, Bainian Liu, Nabeel Shahid) won $3,000.
Dean’s Honor List students for their Spring & Fall 2017 academic terms (1A BME, 2B BME, 1B SYDE, 3A SYDE, 4A SYDE).
Our SYDE-BME women - identifying students, staff, and faculty came together to celebrate International Women's Day. We are so proud of the amazing contributions that they make to our SYDE-BME Community and beyond.
March 8th is International Women's Day! In celebration we will be having a gathering of all women, female-identifying students/faculty in SYDE& BME. There will be a group photo OP at 11:45(SHARP) on the 6th floor of E5. Our SYDE staff are starting us off with their own group photo. Post a picture with your Women's Day spirit hashtag #PressForProgress #SYDE_BME
The government of Canada announced the supercluster awards today. Of the five awards across Canada, Waterloo Engineering is playing leading roles in *two* of them, which is really quite a remarkable achievement.
Retired Engineering professor George Soulis died on January 19 at the age of 92.
I first met George when I interviewed for a position as assistant professor in Systems Design Engineering in early 1976. His questions and comments at my interview seminar were a large part of my decision to join the department—here was a man with warmth, insight, creativity, and breadth. I soon came to realize that both my personal and professional life were to be shaped by George. He was the founding chair of the department. He was largely responsible for bringing the discipline of design into the curriculum for engineering, not just at Waterloo, but across Canada.
Systems Design Engineering alumnus Steve Carlisle (BASc 1986) is currently President and CEO of GM Canada. He was recently interviewed regarding high tech / research hubs, one of which is planned for Kitchener-Waterloo. (The following article was originally published on Globe and Mail)
A longtime professor at Waterloo Engineering has added an appointment to the Order of Canada to his distinguished list of awards and accomplishments.
Systems Design Engineering PhD student Devinder Kumar and Professor Alexander Wong wins the Best Paper Award at the 31st Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2017) Transparent and interpretable Machine Learning in Safety Critical Environments Workshop for their work on explainable and interpretable AI for clinicial decision support: "CLEAR-DR: Interpretable Computer Aided Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy".