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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Going Green, For Work and Play

He's an engineering professor whose ideal future includes an autonomous smart car taking him out to the golf course.

Researchers at a new automotive lab at the University of Waterloo believe their work today will help to design the cars of tomorrow.

The new $10-million Green and Intelligent Automotive (GAIA) Research Facility officially opened Wednesday in completely renovated space in the Engineering 3 building.

It's the latest addition to the Waterloo Centre for Automotive Research, or WatCAR, touted as the largest university-based automotive research centre in Canada.

Waterloo research team had one week to design and deliver a complex handlebar connector that helps athletes stay in the optimal position for maintaining speed.

A tight timeline was only fitting when engineers at the University of Waterloo took on a special project for the Canadian track cycling team headed to the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Canada’s track cyclists are making their final preparations for competition at the Rio Olympic Velodrome, and those preparations could include adding a part developed at the University of Waterloo to their bikes.

Waterloo engineering professor John McPhee says he received a phone call last month from the Canadian Sports Institute, which had a bit of an unusual request.

“They needed some new parts designed and prototyped,” he said in an interview. [Read more]