News archive - 2021

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Professor Shahsavan’s work recognized by PNAS

Congratulations to the Department of Chemical Engineering’s Professor Hamed Shahsavan for his recent honour by the National Academy of Sciences in America. He was the lead author of a paper chosen as a finalist for a Cozzarelli Prize, which recognizes the top work published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in 2020.

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

A message about Fall 2021 class format details from Dean Mary Wells

Today the Faculty of Engineering has shared detailed and program specific class format plans for September 2021 with our incoming and current students.

Each department has posted details in a LEARN course for current undergraduate engineering students and in a TEAMS channel for current architecture students. These details are based on the information we shared with the Registrar’s Office, which is responsible for University-wide schedules and classroom space.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021

UWTensil: Making affordable, sustainable cutlery

Congratulations to fourth-year Chemical Engineering students Gavin Lee, Nishita Saha, Minh Trinh and Andy Yang for the great success they have had generating interest in their new technology: a low-cost, biodegradable replacement for single-use plastic cutlery. With their $5,000 Concept $5K award, $10,000 Esch Pitch Competition win and $3,000 Bhattacharya Capstone Design Award, the Capstone Design team known as UWTensil is moving forward on their plan to take their fourth-year design project to market.

Monday, May 3, 2021

Denise Mueller receives her second Friend of the Society Award

The Waterloo Engineering Society has, once again, named Chemical Engineering’s Undergraduate Advisor and Program Administrator, Denise Mueller, a Friend of the Society.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Ener-Challenge supports sustainable energy transition

Inspired to help accelerate the global sustainable energy transition, chemical engineering student Monika Mikhail started a new Student Energy chapter within the University of Waterloo Energy Network (UWEN). When the chapter hosted its first Ener-Challenge on March 6^th, five teams of UWaterloo students learned to identify barriers to clean and sustainable energy access and use the iterative design process to formulate effective solutions.