Current students

Friday, July 10, 2020 3:30 pm - 3:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Research Webinar | From ChE to EIT - Navigating Your Early Career, by Don Tu

Please join us online to hear alumnus Don Tu (BASc 2018) talk about his experiences – both as an undergraduate chemical engineering student and in his current career as a process engineer in training at Hatch Ltd. He will share details about the challenges he faced and how he used the skills and training he learned as an undergrad to succeed in a new field. Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about some real world experiences from a recent UWaterloo Chemical Engineering grad.

Thursday, June 25, 2020 6:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Legal matters behind tech companies: a virtual talk

If you plan to work for a tech company or are thinking of starting your own, this talk is for you.

As part of Remote Learning Community events this term, Steven Cutler (SYDE BASc 2005; SYDE MASc 2006) and Geoffrey Rawle (SYDE BASc 2005), who practice law at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP in Toronto where they specialize in tech related issues, are coming to give a talk.

The Department of Chemical Engineering is hosting UBC’s Professor James Feng who will talk about Modelling Collective Migration of Biological Cells. Please join us to learn about Professor Feng’s research.

You are welcome to join the Department of Chemical Engineering to Professor Yong Yang’s seminar on using biomaterials and polymer micro-/nanoengineering approaches to engineer biomimetic organ chips that recapitulate the key anatomical and physiological characteristics of human organs.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering to hear Professor Dorval Courchesne discuss her work to engineer curli fibers produced by Escherichia coli bacteria and confer them with properties relevant for biomedical devices.

Thursday, May 28, 2020

CHE embraces remote teaching

When the coronavirus pandemic necessitated the closure of university campuses across Canada, the Department of Chemical Engineering quickly transitioned the last few weeks of classes online so students could finish their term from the safety of home. At the same time, our spring term instructors began adapting their lectures, which would begin in just a few short weeks, for online delivery. Now, with these experiences as a foundation, we are building upon our successes and incorporating the best aspects of remote teaching into our plans for future terms.