Headlines from MME
Grad Students awarded for exceptional teaching
Hamed Shateri from Mechanical & Mechatronics Engineering is among four graduate students who are this year’s winners of the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student. Their names were announced at Monday night’s senate meeting by Sue Horton, the associate provost (graduate studies). [more]
First associate dean, teaching appointed
Gordon Stubley, a mechanical and mechatronics professor, has been appointed Waterloo Engineering’s first associate dean, teaching, for a three-year term beginning May 1, 2012. [More]
Interim Chair for MME appointed
Fathy Ismail of mechanical and mechatronics engineering will serve as interim chair of the department from February 1 to December 31 2012. He will replace Pearl Sullivan who is succeeding Adel Sedra as dean of Waterloo Engineering on July 1, 2012. Sullivan is resigning as chair of MME on January 31 to allow time for the transition of the dean’s position. A full search will take place for Sullivan’s permanent successor.
Pearl Sullivan named next dean of Waterloo Engineering
Pearl Sullivan, chair of Waterloo’s mechanical and mechatronics engineering department, will become Waterloo’s eighth dean of engineering on July 1, 2012. Sullivan, an award-winning professor and accomplished researcher, joined the university as a professor of mechanical engineering in 2004. She will succeed Adel Sedra whose second term as dean ends June 30, 2012. [Press release]
4th-year project BufferBox officially launches at uWaterloo
Waterloo Engineering start-up BufferBox will launch what is believed to be the first parcel delivery kiosk service in Canada on January 12 in the Student Life Centre at the University of Waterloo. BufferBox was created by three recent Waterloo mechatronics engineering graduates as their fourth year design project to provide a reliable and secure parcel delivery alternative. [Bufferbox demo]
Waterloo Engineering spin-off wins recognition for technology
Less than a year after spinning off from Waterloo Engineering, Innovative Processing Technologies (IPT) has been recognized by the Ontario government for its breakthrough Multiple Memory Material (MMM) technology, known for making smart materials smarter. IPT and a Waterloo Engineering team led by mechanical and mechatronics professor Norman Zhou have been awarded market readiness funding by the Ontario Centres of Excellence. Valued at $130,000, this fund will support development and qualification of prototypes specifically for automotive applications.
WAVELab Robotics Win the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition
The WAVELab Robotics team supervised Dr. S. Waslander won the grand award at the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition at UBC. The team ranked first overall in the design, drag race, and circuit competitions.
MME undergraduate students team makes a strong showing at the IGVC competition
A team of undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Waterloo Robotics Team and the Waterloo Autonomous Vehicles Lab are back from the recent Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition with the best showing of any Canadian entry [more].
MME Students win for oral and video skills at OCE contest
Waterloo Engineering teams received three of nine awards presented at the Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery 2011 competition held recently in Toronto. MME students Yaser Shanjani and Mihaela Vlasea, both PhD students supervised by Dr. E. Toyserkani, won second prize in the student oral presentation competition (more).
MME Professors research featured in Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail featured an article on collaboration between Microbonds Inc. of Markham, Ontario, and MME professors Norman Zhou and Michael Mayer. This collaboration focused on developing innovative ways to lower the production costs of the company’s semiconductor packaging business without having to overhaul operations or lose ground in its sector (read more).
Engineering News
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
Waterloo Engineering’s incoming associate dean, teaching is one of eight professors province-wide to receive a 2012 Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Excellence in Teaching. Gordon Stubley, a mechanical and mechatronics engineering professor who will officially become the Faculty’s first associate dean, teaching on May 1, was presented with the award by Natalie Cockburn, vice president education for the Federation of Students, in early April. Stubley was nominated for the award by the University of Waterloo’s Federation of Students.
“It was both an honour and humbling to receive this particular recognition because, in part, it is very much in recognition of the accomplishments and initiatives of many in mechanical and mechatronics engineering and throughout the Faculty,” says Stubley. “I am fortunate to be part of such a wonderful group!” [OUSA website]
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
For the second year in a row three of the four graduate students to win the university’s exceptional teaching award are from Waterloo Engineering. Arash Shahi of civil and environmental engineering, Andrea Murphy, of the School of Architecture, and Hamed Shateri of mechanical and mechatronics engineering will receive the Amit and Meena Chakma Award for Exceptional Teaching by a Student at spring convocation in June. The other winner is Keith Delaney of earth and environmental sciences. [
DB article]
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
A Waterloo Engineering project, headed by mechanical and mechatronics professor Michael Worswick to develop energy-efficient cars through the use of new lightweight materials, will receive $3.7 million in federal funding. The funding announcement, made by Kitchener-Waterloo MP Peter Braid March 20 in an Engineering 3 lab, is part of a $34-million initiative for six automotive research projects at universities across Canada.Worswick, a Canada Research Chair, said the work being undertaken is important to the development of more energy-efficient vehicles such as improved battery-hybrid cars. [
Record article]
News courtesy of UW Engineering News.
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