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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

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.

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.

Chemical Engineering graduate students Madjid Soltani and Navid Bizmark were both awarded the University's 2013 Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies honours for their graduate research. Five of these honours were awarded this year at the Doctoral level and four at the Master’s level.

Grafoid Inc. supports Dr. Aiping Yu’s research on supercapacitor using surface modified graphene.

Grafoid Inc. has signed a R&D agreement to develop a surface tailored graphene material for supercapacitor with potential applications for the automotive and portable electronics sectors.

The R&D agreement includes sponsor $ 200,000 cash for applying NSERC-CRD and $ 50,000 cash for general research donation.

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.