In honour of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we’re celebrating the McMaster Engineering students, alumni and faculty who are engineering a brighter future and with impactful innovation. Read about the brightest minds in engineering who are making a real-world impact in their communities, across the country and around the globe.
Student-created app pairs international students with industry mentors
As children to immigrant parents, Omar Azmy, a mechanical engineering student, and Stevan Japundzic, a kinesiology student, saw first-hand what their families had to overcome to secure employment in an unfamiliar work environment. That’s why they created MENT, a free app designed to give professional support to international students who are building new lives in Canada.
WheelBeats app created by first-year Engineering students receives honour from Dyson Canada
Maria Akhtar, Jocelyn Kuntsi, Shayaha Jeyaseelan and Cate Prince were team members for the Integrated Cornerstone Design Projects in Engineering (1P13) who designed WheelBeats, a web app recently named the National Runner Up for the James Dyson Award.
Nice to MeGPT you: Student’s AI communication tool sparks conversation
Second-year Computer Engineering student and McMaster Rocketry Team member, Jaavin Mohanakumar, turned a lifelong passion for coding and programming into a tool to address this concern – a shareable AI clone called MeGPT.
Meet the iBioMed innovator making an impact in accessibility
Through the iBioMed curriculum, Cosby is hoping to apply the skills he’s learned and will continue to learn in his design studio classes to achieve his goals. Gaining knowledge of prototyping and 3D printing has been the first major step in making this a reality.
A stable solution for people living with hand tremors
In the summer of 2022, Zhao decided to research supportive devices for his hand tremors, only to be met with expensive technology and medicine far out of his budget. Taking an idea from the back of his chemistry notebook and translating it into a functional prototype resulted in the ExoTremor.
Behind the lens: Engineering alumnus Geoff Shaw sharpens his focus on a career in photography
If you’ve attended McMaster Engineering events like Convocation, Welcome Week, the Fireball Formal, or the Iron Ring celebration, you may have noticed Geoff Shaw capturing these moments.
TIME’s Best Inventions for 2023 includes work of grad Geordie Rose’94
Vancouver-based Sanctuary AI, known for its innovative general-purpose robot Phoenix™, has earned a place on TIME’s Best Inventions list for 2023. Its co-founder and CEO, Geordie Rose, is a graduate of McMaster University’s Engineering Physics program and an inductee to the university’s Hall of Fame.
Master’s of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation grad reflects on her experience ahead of the program’s relaunch
When McMaster’s Master’s of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEEI) program returns in September 2025, it will do so with the endorsement of alumni like Pooja Gujral, who credits the program with bridging the gap between her technical expertise and her aspirations in management and entrepreneurship.
Lights, camera, action: How AI is transforming the filmmaking landscape
AXIBO was founded in 2019 by Anoop Gadhrri, Reiner Schmidt, and Sohaib Al-Emara, three undergraduate students from McMaster University, in Ontario, Canada. Early adopters of AXIBO reportedly include companies like Netflix and Apple.
Enginuity: Finding the recipe for success
Born in China, Tian came to Canada for McMaster University’s Electrical Engineering program at 19 years old. After graduating in 2007, she found herself uncertain about her career trajectory.
Enedym SRM-powered luggage hauler goes into service at Hamilton Airport
Closing the loop: Creating a circular vinyl economy requires academic and industry collaboration
It’s highly flexible, light weight, low cost to manufacture and serves multiple functions. The ubiquity of polyvinyl chloride – or PVC – in our day to day lives points to an abundance of applications. What’s sorely lacking with the third-most produced polymer worldwide are adequate practices for recycling and reuse.
Is time running out for best-before dates? New ways to detect food spoilage
The inventors of a suite of tests that enable food packages to signal if their contents are contaminated are working to bring producers and regulators together to get their inventions into commercial products, with the goal of preventing illness and reducing food waste.
Bfree Cup engineering innovations shift the paradigm on period poverty and women’s health
Hirtz’s Bfree Cup is differentiated in the market as the world’s only menstrual cup that doesn’t need to be boiled between uses. Its clever silicone design makes it physically antibacterial.
A steak in the future: McMaster researchers to play leading role in putting cultured meat on the table
A team of McMaster University researchers is taking a leading role in a Canadian initiative aimed at making cultured meat more affordable and accessible to everyday consumers.
