A MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAM DIRECTOR AND CHAIR
Bryan Tripp Professor and Director
Thank you for your support of the 2022 Capstone Design Project Symposium. On behalf of our graduating Biomedical Engineering students, faculty, staff, and mentors, I am pleased to welcome you. While the Symposium marks the culmination of our students’ final year of study, it reflects nearly five years of learning through academic, co-operative work terms, and personal endeavours. To reach this milestone, the teams must draw from the knowledge, resilience, critical thinking, and resourcefulness they have developed throughout the program. These design projects were created in a challenging time. The projects offer a glimpse of what our students can achieve and how they can make a positive impact on society as they move forward in their careers. Please join me in congratulating our students on this important milestone. We are grateful for the opportunity to come together in celebration of their achievements. We wish our graduating class every success and look forward to seeing the great things they will accomplish.
Bryan Tripp Professor and Director
Lisa Aultman-Hall Professor and Chair
On behalf of the graduating Biomedical Engineering students, as well as our faculty and staff team, I am delighted to welcome you to the 2022 Capstone Design Symposium.
I wish my sincerest congratulations to all the Capstone Design student teams, for perseverance through this challenging year, the conclusion of nearly five years of hard work and study with us at the University of Waterloo and in the broader world during their co-op work terms. The Capstone Design Symposium serves as the culmination of our unique Waterloo BME program within which we deliberately and explicitly embed systems thinking and design experiences. We firmly believe that designing solutions to improve human health and communities is the core of our profession. The formal approaches for iterative design, prototyping, and engineering analysis will allow our BME graduates to excel in, and contribute to, the world.
This year’s projects evoked Waterloo’s Strategic Plan goal of connecting imagination with impact to create a better world. Our students are passionate about design and have combined their complementary skills to present innovative solutions that address some of the challenges facing the health discipline. Their ideas flourished with the support of an encouraging and collaborative department community both on campus and through virtual gatherings. Our reality is complex, and we believe the path forward requires working together to create a better future for all.
After nearly two years of online teaching and learning, I am pleased to be back on campus with our students and to showcase their hard work at the Symposium. We all appreciate the connection technology can provide, but also recognize the critical importance of face-to-face interactions for education and especially capstone design experiences. I hope our students feel pride in how they have overcome extraordinary obstacles to arrive at this achievement. We wish our graduates every success in their lifelong learning journey. As students look back on their BME experiences, the ups and the downs, I invite them to remain a part of our Waterloo community, keep in touch, and be part of designing the future BME program for the students that will follow.
Lisa Aultman-Hall Professor and Chair
Department of Systems Design Engineering