In recognition of Global Entrepreneurship Week, we’re celebrating the McMaster Engineering students, alumni and faculty who are engineering a brighter future and with impactful innovation. Explore stories behind the brightest minds in engineering who are making a real-world impact in their communities, across the country and around the globe.
McMaster Engineering startup Harvest Systems ranked among top investible clean tech companies in Canada
Harvest Systems has established new benchmarks for energy efficiency in the food service sector by showing how eco-friendly initiatives can also lead to substantial financial savings.
McMaster startup livestreams surgeries to students and doctors globally
iBioMed students Yazdaan Ahmad and Manvir Bhangu co-founded Innovo Surgica. They are developing a new tool that prevents tears in the protective layer of tissue around the spine called the dura. Accidental dura tears during spinal surgery can cause long-term health problems for patients.
Ahmad and Bhagu will be competing in the Forge Startup Survivor Pitch Competition on Wednesday.
Enginuity: Farming for the future
As the Founder and CEO of CATTLEytics — and a computer engineering graduate — Dr. Shari van de Pol and her team have developed data-driven systems that empower farmers by helping them reclaim valuable time while enhancing animal care. CATTLEytics provides real-time staff, task and protocol management, treatment and event recording, data modeling and forecasting in one centralized platform.
Postdoc’s augmented reality solution makes pain management more accessible
Stevia Foglia, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Biomedical Engineering, founded Neuro-Mod Inc., a company born out of his doctoral research. Neuro-Mod is focused on non-invasive brain stimulation, as well as using augmented reality (AR) to deliver physiotherapy exercises.
Health-tech innovators pitch groundbreaking solutions at Innovation Matchmaking showcase
Innovative health-tech solutions pitched by Mac Eng researchers at the Innovation Matchmaking competition were among the top three teams who received funding for their ventures. Congratulations to:
Frances Lasowski, Karen Mossman & Heather Sheardown – a novel pan-antiviral delivered directly to the lungs to fight respiratory infections.
Todd Hoare, Saman Sadeghi & Katherine Zukotynski – nano-enabled targeted cancer radiotherapy.
Wonder Guard: PhD student’s new device aims to halt progression of UTIs
Manak Bajaj, a Health, Engineering, Science and Entrepreneurship (iBioMed) graduate and current biomedical engineering PhD student, was inspired by Iron Man to pursue biomedical engineering. While he doesn’t have a suit of iron, he’s the real deal – a businessman meets engineer that is hoping to bring his innovative Wonder Guard, a device that aims to halt progression of UTIs, to market.
Bajaj will be competing in the Forge Startup Survivor Pitch Competition on Wednesday.
Enginuity: Health, tech, entrepreneurship and a family of McMaster degrees
Aly Orady ’98 (Electrical and Computer Engineering) had the idea for Tonal, the in-home, smart-gym company he founded in 2015, while using a cable crossover machine at the gym. The machine is a flexible, at-home work-out platform based on resistance provided by electric motors.
Balancing student life and startup success: Power of Play co-founders share their story
For Deena Al-Sammak ’25 and Rooaa Shanshal, managing academic demands while growing their venture, Power of Play, is made more seamless by a degree that integrates entrepreneurship with health sciences and engineering. Power of Play is focused on developing a toy-like medical device to measure pediatric grip strength, aimed at assisting children with conditions like autism, muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy in their rehabilitation process.
‘The future of medicine’ – McMaster startup secures funding for nuclear medicine device
Ravi Selvaganapathy and Saman Sadeghi are co-founders of RadioSyn, which is developing a miniaturized automated radiopharmaceutical synthesis platform that will standardize and streamline the manufacturing of radiopharmaceuticals to make nuclear medicine more accessible.
Leyla Soleymani receives Dorothy Killam Fellowship for research on next-generation wearable health-care devices
Leyla Soleymani was awarded a Dorothy Killam Fellowship for her research on next-generation wearable devices for early disease detection and prevention earlier this year. Her technology could predict heart attacks while they are still reversible, detect cancer recurrence early enough to prevent metastasis, and empower individuals to monitor the effects of their diet and exercise with unprecedented accuracy.
From startup to boardroom: Innovate everywhere with McMaster’s relaunched master’s degree in engineering entrepreneurship and innovation
Inspired by the above stories? Consider our Master of Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MEEI) and Master of Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MTEI) programs to foster your entrepreneurial thinking, innovative leadership, and sustainability management.
