Welcome to Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo
The Department of Systems Design Engineering is a globally unique interdisciplinary department with flexible and innovative programs dedicated to the study of complex systems and their design.
Our interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate programs blend engineering, mathematics, and social sciences to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to tackle the most pressing technological challenges of today and tomorrow. In addition to our new Biomedical Engineering program, Systems Design remains committed to Human Factors, Mechatronics, and Societal and Environmental Systems.
News
Celebrating innovation: Systems Design and Biomedical Engineering Capstone 2024
SYDE and BME 4B students presented their 2024 Capstone project at an all-day symposium.
Going top shelf with AI to better track hockey data
Waterloo researchers get an assist from AI in identifying hockey players with greater accuracy and speed.
Systems Design Engineering class of ’83 celebrates their 40-year reunion!
Around 30 classmates of SYDE ’83 celebrated their 40-year reunion at a weekend getaway in Muskoka, Ontario.
Events
Join us for a special optometry panel with Dr. Ben Thompson, Dr. Andre Stanberry, Dr. Tammy Labreche, and Dr. Jennifer Hunter. Mediation provided by Dr. Stan Woo, Director of the School of Optometry.
Grad seminar: preference and performance-based adaptive task planning in human-robot collaboration
Seminar by Ali Noormohammadi Asl
Grad Seminar: Towards a general computational framework for cellular-resolution enhanced reconstruction of anterior human eye imagery from defocused and noisy optical coherence tomography data
Seminar by Nima Abbasi Firoozjah
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