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The department of Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of David Simakov to our faculty. In his new role as assistant professor, he will teach reaction engineering and transport phenomena and continue his research in sustainable reaction engineering. David is a respected researcher, with publications in several leading journals, including Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Catalysis Science & Technology and Applied Catalysis. In addition to his role in Chemical Engineering, David will be actively engaged with the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Kate Stewart is currently working on her PhD with Professor Penlidis. She received two awards for her research work a two different conferences.  One was for the best poster (one of three out of over 65 posters) at the prestigious Polymer Reaction Engineering Conference IX in Cancun, Mexico (May 10-15, 2015).  The other was 2nd place overall (out of 60+ posters) in the poster competition at the Annual AUTO21 conference in Ottawa, ON (May 26-27, 2015).

Pu Chen – Professor, University of Waterloo

The winner for the June 2015 Convocation is Lydia Terisno, a graduate from the Chemical Engineering program with an outstanding academic record.

Lydia has maintained an academic standing of "Excellent" throughout her academic terms and has achieved high grades in some of her courses.  She consistently ranked as one of the top students in her class. Ms Terisno has remained the Dean's Honour list for her entire undergraduate career and will graduate top of her class.

Congratulations to this year’s recipient of the Certificate in University Teaching Award, Marzieh Riahinezhad (Chemical Engineering)! Marzieh is a PhD student with Professors Alex Penlidis and Neil McManus

An interview with Marzieh is featured in the CTE blog, and will also be featured in the May edition of the CTE newsletter, Teaching Matters.

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Chemical Engineering PhD students Hadi Izadi, Katherine Stewart, and Professor Alexander Penlidis, explain how dry adhesion works in a recent pioneering article in J. Roy. Soc. Interface. For more details, please check:

"How does dry adhesion work?"

Congratulations to three of our Graduate Students:

Adam Westbrook and Eric Blondeel for receiving the Murray Moo-Young Award.

Michael Pyne for receiving the Park and Veva Reilly Chemical Engineering Medal for Proficiency in Research.

The first edition of the Chemical Engineering newsletter “The DISTILLATE” has been posted on the website, and announced via e-mail to all Chemical Engineering Alumni.  It is presented in what’s referred to as “Flipping Book” format, where the publication functions as an "open book" whereby the reader can simply flip the pa