MME Prof. Rick Culham won the Faculty of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, and Prof. Xianguo Li received the Faculty of Engineering Research Award (Full Professor Rank). [more]
MME Professor Carolyn Hansson has recently been elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Her election “represents a substantial and meaningful recognition of the remarkable work (she) has done”. Membership in the RCS is a prestigious recognition of Carolyn’s achievements and lifelong work from among the most respected scientific academies in Canada and the first in our Department.
Distinguished MME professor emeritus Alan Plumtree was recently presented with the 2009 Rio Tinto Alcan Award by the Metallurgical Society of CIM at the Conference of Metallurgists. Read more here.
MME Professor Gordon Stubley has been named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Read the official announcement here.
MME professor Dr. Shahrzad Esmaeili received Ministry of Research and Innovation Early Researcher Award in Round 5 for the project “Innovative Processing and Microstructural Modeling of Advanced Aluminum Alloy Systems”. Read the project details here.
MME Prof. Michael Worswick, Canada Research Chair in Lightweight Materials and a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering at Waterloo received CFI funding in the amount of $3,774,926 to develop research in Materials and Manufacturing for Light Weight Automotive Structures and Advanced Occupant Protection. Other MME co-applicants are Prof. Duane Cronin, Prof. Shahrzad Esmaeili and Prof. Mary Wells.
First-year mechatronics engineering student Eric Yam, the first Canadian to win the NASA Space Settlement Design Competition, will speak about his achievement at a special seminar hosted by Waterloo’s mechanical and mechatronics department. The seminar will take place November 20 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Davis Centre, room 1350. Yam tied a team from India for top spot in the 16-year-old NASA competition, which has students from around the world designing an orbiting space settlement for humans. He submitted his design while still in high school. [Eng-e-News article]
Doctoral candidate Dan Cluff and his supervisors mechanical engineering professors Steve Corbin and Robert Gorbet won the Sensortech Best Student Paper Award at the CANSMART 2009 workshop held recently in Montreal. The award was presented for the paper co-authored by the three entitled Powder metallurgy fabrication of hybrid monolithic SMA actuators.
Team North captured fourth place in the Solar Decathlon, an international competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy that took place from October 9 to 16 in Washington D.C. Team North - whose members are from the University of Waterloo, Ryerson University and Simon Fraser University - was among 20 teams in the competition. Team North’s 800-square-foot house scored 849.82 out of a possible total of 1000 points. “We are so impressed and so proud of our team and everyone who worked so hard during the last two years,” said Maun Demchenko, a Waterloo architecture master’s student. [competition website]
A solar house designed in part by Waterloo Engineering students was in fourth place mid-way through this year’s Solar Decathlon competition, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and taking place in Washington D.C. North House is one of two Canadian entries out of 20 in the decathlon. The goal of the competition is to design and build the most attractive and energy-efficient solar powered house. Rick Haldenby, director of Waterloo’s School of Architecture, reports that Team North was in first place at the beginning of the competition and has never been below sixth spot. [solar decathlon tracking]
News courtesy of UW Engineering News.
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