Prof. Hector Budman has been awarded the 2014 D.G. Fisher Award that is presented to a Canadian resident by the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Suncor Energy Foundation and Shell Canada Limited for major contributions in the field of systems and control engineering.
Professor Marc Aucoin's student Eric Blondeel (PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering) and Moufeed Kaddoura (4A Microbiology) venture is revolutionizing the practice of allergy testing with a non-invasive skin patch for simple safe and certain allergy detection. The standard allergy test attempts to cause an allergic reaction in a patient by piercing known allergens through the skin with needles.
Tyromer Inc., a University of Waterloo start-up founded by Chemical Engineering professor Costas Tzoganakis, has just won one of the top 50 entrepreneurial awards (screened from more than 2800 companies from 27 countries) at TiEcon 2014 in San Jose, CA.
It is the time again to have these exciting events to welcome our admitted students to the Chemical Engineering Department.
Information Booth:
Location: Engineering 5 (E5), 2nd Floor, Time: 9:00-4:00 PM
Chemical Engineering Departmental Showcase -
Welcome and Presentation: 2:00-2:45
Lab Tours - 2:45-4:00 (various labs locations)
Location: Engineering 6 (E6) Room # 2024 (2nd floor)
PhD student Drew Higgins has been named the recipient of the 2013 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Canadian Section Student Award for his research on nanostructured fuel cell and battery electrode materials, carried out under the supervision of Prof. Zhongwei Chen.
Fourth year Nanotechnology Engineering students Matin Esfahani, Hooman Safaee, Shafi Siddiqi, and Mihail Vlascov were awarded $25,000 in start-up funding through the VeloCity Venture Fund. Their start-up is based upon their Fourth Year Design Project coursework developing transparent scalable displays, Lumotune.
