Marzieh Riahinezhad (PhD, Chemical Engineering, September 2015) received the international and extremely prestigious “Best Dissertation of the Year ADIPEC Award” in excellence in energy (November 2015). Marzieh’s PhD thesis was selected by an international scientific panel of 26 judges in the oil and gas industry as one of the top three best dissertations of 2015 in energy, worldwide.
Grand River Hospital (GRH) has formally activated its halogenated drug recovery (HDR) system, developed through a research initiative lead by Bill Anderson, professor of chemical engineering, and Class 1 Inc. of Cambridge. This new technology will help battle climate change as it captures waste anesthetic gases exhaled by patients undergoing surgery.
Alison Scott (BASc ‘13, MASc ‘15, Waterloo), a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2015 J. Alan George Leadership Award. This entrance award is offered to female PhD students who demonstrate outstanding leadership.
Professor Alexander Penlidis and graduate student Hadi Izadi (PhD 2014), started working on PhD project with the idea to fabricate "dry adhesives" mimicking the way geckos' feet can stick to surfaces.
