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Congratulations to Yung Priscilla Lai, Kyung Eun Sun and Hiroki Takamura on winning the 2^nd 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.  

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.

Professor Marc Aucoin, Department of Chemical Engineering has been appointed Academic Director, WatPD-Engineering effective May 1, 2013 to April 30, 2016.

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.