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The paper by Niousha Kazemi, Tom Duever and Alex Penlidis,  Demystifying the estimation of reactivity ratios for terpolymerization systems, AIChE J., accepted March 2014, was based on a conference presentation at the AIChE Conference, November 2013, San Francisco, and was identified by the industrial session chair, Dr. John R. Richards (E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, USA) as the ‘best presentation of the session’, paper # 432c’.

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Capstone Design

Capstone Design Project Poster Fair and Meet-the-Professor Night

Invitations to: Applicants, Alumni, and Members of the Public

Date:  Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Time:  4:30-6:30PM

Location:  Engineering 6 (E6) 1 and 3rd floor Atrium

Come and see the design project work completed by our graduating class. Meet other students and professors.  Get ideas for your design projects or graduate work

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)

Congratulations to Yung Priscilla Lai, Kyung Eun Sun and Hiroki Takamura on winning the 2nd place poster presentation (capstone design project) for designing an undergraduate food processing laboratory for the University of Waterloo, held at the 4th annual Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference in  Montreal, QC on June 17-20, 2013.  

This national individual award, sponsored by GreenCentre Canada, is for an individual working in Canada who has made significant contributions to advance green chemistry and/or engineering, including the technical, human health and environmental benefits. From the award announcement:
"Flora T. T. Ng obtained her BSc at the University of Hong Kong , MSc and PhD from the University of British Columbia.

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.