Drew Higgins, a chemical engineering doctoral student, has been named the recipient of the 2013 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Canadian Section Student Award for his research on nanostructured fuel cell and battery electrode materials, carried out under the supervision of Zhongwei Chen, a chemical engineering professor.
One of these awards is given each year to a graduate student at a Canadian University pursuing a doctorate in an area of science or engineering in which electrochemistry is the primary consideration. Higgins will receive the award at the annual meeting of the ECS Canadian Section taking place November 23 in Montreal.
Katharina Hassel, also a chemical engineering doctoral student, won first place in the Reg Friesen student oral paper competition held October 21 at the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Conference in Fredericton, NB.
Undergraduate chemical engineering students Yung Priscilla Lai, Kyung Eun Sun and Hiroki Takamura captured second place in the capstone design project poster presentation held earlier this year at the fourth annual Canadian Engineering Education Association Conference that took place in Montreal. The students' project was a design for a University of Waterloo undergraduate food processing lab.