McMaster Engineering news & updates

Two teams of McMaster students participated at CyberSci 2025, Canada’s largest CTF event, with one team placing third nationally.

Three students took their education abroad and returned with fresh insights, unforgettable experiences and a deeper sense of global connection. Meet Julia, Greg and Halima who ventured to Sweden, Austria and Grenoble for an exchange experience of a lifetime.

Three software engineering students transformed a capstone project into Trac, a real-time shuffle-tracking app now piloted on campus to improve student commuting and wait times.

The 2025 stories of our faculty, staff, alumni and student's expertise, innovations, experiences and more.

Razan and Rawaan Abu-Shaera share more than a birthday — they share a passion for engineering. The twins, both in McMaster’s iBioMed program, have spent five years tackling projects side by side. Now, as they graduate, they’re adding one more milestone to their journey: launching a startup together.

Sarah Hamed, second-year MASc student in Transportation Engineering, received the graduate scholarship while Emma Martino, Mechatronics Engineering student, received the undergraduate scholarship.

Meet the engineering student who created MacGuessr, a wildly popular mapping game that tests players’ knowledge of campus.

McMaster Engineering researcher Sébastien Mosser and a team of international experts are working to make artificial intelligence systems safer, fairer and more transparent for users.

Founded by McMaster Engineering students, LIVESENS is transforming everyday road vehicles into a unified real-time network of sensors, and lining up major partners, like the City of Toronto.

Postdoctoral fellow Julia Rosén recently created the RoboConsent Framework, which supports more user-centered, transparent and ethically robust consent processes.

Meet the newest faculty and staff members of McMaster Engineering. Find out why they joined Mac Eng, which emoji they use most and more.

Assistant Professor Onaizah Onaizah leads the HeART lab, where her team designs millimetre-scale robots and 3D-printed magnetic devices for medical use. Their work is shaping the future of less invasive and more precise healthcare.