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Chemical Engineering 4th year students - Gloriana Gao, Madison Connors and Andrew Holmes have been selected for a fully sponsored trip to attend the  8th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) which will be held from 8-12 December 2014 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

A notification for the competition was sent to all faculties in Engineering and student selections were based on the basis of their academic standing, statement of interest and extra curricular exploits.

Dr. Zhongwei Chen, Associate Professor in the department has won the Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) Award this year. Several other Waterloo’s professors have been also awarded DAS, valued at $120,000 over a three-year period. In addition to the DAS award, NSERC also renewed Dr. Chen’s Discovery Grant award, almost doubling the original grant amount. Detail information about it in

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Congratulations to three of our Graduate Students:

Adam Westbrook and Eric Blondeel for receiving the Murray Moo-Young Award.

Michael Pyne for receiving the Park and Veva Reilly Chemical Engineering Medal for Proficiency in Research.

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.

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’.

Alison Scott, a MASc candidate in Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation's Vale Master's Scholarship. Each year, the prestigious scholarship is awarded to one female engineering student enrolled in a Master’s program at a Canadian university. See the full story here.

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