News

• 1st Place in Catalysis Category: Boyu Li, "Kinetic Performance of Iron Doped Ceria Catalyst for Soot Oxidation” (supervised by Prof. E. Croiset)
• 1st Place in Macromolecular Science Category: Yun-Seok Jun, “Highly Conductive and Interconnected Graphene Foam Based Polymer Composite” (supervised by Prof. A. Yu)
• 2nd Place in Macromolecular Science Category:

For the 4^th year in a row, the team earned Gold Standing at the competition. This year they brought home the Best Poster prize!”

Paul Chen, a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Frank Gu, has been awarded a prestigious Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.  His research involves the application of gold nano-particles for detection and identification of pathogens that cause infectious disease.

The Reaxys PhD Prize recognizes young chemists conducting original and innovative research in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry. New Scientist Live,  

Prof. Zhongwei Chen has received $3 million in funding to further his work into greener, cheaper, more energy-efficient silicon-based batteries.

The winner of the 2016-2017 Chemical Engineering Medal for Proficiency in Research (Park and Veva Reilly Medal) is Dr. Marzieh Riahinezhad.  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 2015 dissertations (from a record number of 501) in energy, worldwide.

3 minute Thesis Winners for 2016

1st place - Gregory Lui

2nd place - Lathankan Rasenthiram

3rd place - Nagma Zerin

Canadian Association for Graduate Studies

The next big innovation to hit the marketplace could be among the Waterloo student projects on display at the annual Capstone Design symposia beginning March 16. 

Senior-year engineering students at Waterloo will exhibit projects ranging from a technology that reduces agricultural water waste through intelligent irrigation systems to a device that may help people with Parkinson`s disease avoid falls.