Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Four engineering researchers will benefit from the $12.7 million in provincial research funding to be received by the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University. The grants announced August 2 by Kitchener-Conestoga MPP Leeanna Pendergast in Waterloo’s Engineering 5 building will fund a total of 25 Waterloo and WLU projects. The engineering researchers receiving funding for their work are Slim Boumaiza and Patrick Mitran, both of electrical and computer engineering, James Craig of civil and environmental engineering, and Maud Gorbet of systems design engineering. Boumaiza, who spoke at the announcement, was awarded $2.4 million to investigate technologies to make cell phone towers smaller and more energy efficient.