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Drew Higgins, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the Grand Prize for the 2014 Dr. Bernard S. Baker Student Researcher Award for Fuel Cell Research. The purpose of this award is to encourage and recognize exceptional student research relating to fuel cell technologies.

The Sandford Fleming Foundation Award Winners 2013/2014 have been awarded to Adelle Vickery, Chemical Engineering and Debbie Xinyu Wu, Nano Technology Engineering.

Free Public Lecture and Expert Panel - The Science Behind Ebola

Chemical Engineering PhD students Hadi Izadi, Katherine Stewart, and Professor Alexander Penlidis, explain how dry adhesion works in a recent pioneering article in J. Roy. Soc. Interface. For more details, please check:

"How does dry adhesion work?"

Professor M. Aucoin's PhD student, Eric Blondeel has won an award for the Velocity Venture Fund.

Eric Blondeel's company ExVivo Labs just won the $25k pitch award for the Velocity Venture Fund.

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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

https://uwaterloo.ca/news/next-generation-electronics-cell-phones-roll-paperer

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.