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Grad student wins prestigious Vale scholarship

Rana Tehrani Yekta is bright, ambitious and an inspiration for women in engineering. The civil engineering master's student is the newest $10,000 Vale Master’s in Engineering Scholarship winner and joins the list of impressive women who represent the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) and Vale in encouraging youth and promoting engineering as a profession to women across Canada.

The scholarship is awarded annually to the most promising woman in a graduate engineering program at the master’s level in Canada and comes with a work place opportunity with Vale.

Chemical Engineering Seminar

Guest speaker Jean-Pol Dodelet from INRS-Energie will speak on the topic of "Replacing Pt at the Cathode of H2/O2 (Air) PEM Fuel Cells with Highly Active Fe-based Electrocatalysts"
 

WIN Seminar Series Speaker - Professor Kien Wen Sun

On Friday, May 18th 2012, Professor Kien Wen Sun from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, will deliver a lecture titled "Applications of Nanotechnology on Solar Energy Harvesting". This lecture is free and open to the public!

Watch management sciences guest interviews on Skype

Looking for information on the impact of information technology on people at work and other thought-provoking topics? Guest speakers on information technology and other subjects presented to management sciences professor Peter Carr's classes are available on YouTube.  The speakers include:

Engineering researchers receive ERA funding boost

Three Waterloo Engineering researchers were among the 11 throughout the Waterloo Region who received prestigious Early Researcher Awards that were announced by John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre, on May 4. Alexander Wong of systems design engineering, Zhongwei Chen and Boxin Zhao, both of chemical engineering, received $140,000 each to support their research projects. 

Park Reilly Distinguished Seminar

Guest speaker Can Li from the Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy will present a talk on "Homogeneous Catalysis in Heterogeneous Nanoreactors".

WIN Seminar Series Speaker - Professor Guillaume Wantz

On Tuesday, May 15th 2012, Professor Guillaume Wantz from Bordeaux Institute of Technology, France, will deliver a lecture titled "Organic Photovoltaic Research at Bordeaux University: A Focus on Advanced Materials for Efficient and Stable Solar Cells". This lecture is free and open to the public!

Student Design Centre Open House Recruitment Fair

ALL FACULTIES WELCOME! Come on out to our Open House and meet our teams. Joining a team is a great way to sharpen your skills, improve your resume and have fun! Refreshments provided

Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre Grand Opening

Quantum-Nano Centre buildingPlease save the morning of Friday, September 21 and plan to celebrate with us as we open the doors to the University of Waterloo's newest building, the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre. 
 

WISE Lecture Series

Modeling and Optimization of a Micro-Grid: Huatacondo, Isolated Village in Northern Chile Dr. Doris Sáez Department of Electrical Engineering University of Chile With a low population density and many natural resources, Chile's electricity supply shortage is a paradox. The Atacama Desert, Andes Mountains, long coastline and strong agriculture provide the country with abundant distributed renewable energy resources that could, according to recent estimations, largely surpass the fast-growing electricity demand.

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