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Congratulations to Chemical Engineering grad student Nikolai Burton for being awarded the David Johnson International Student Entrance Scholarship! Nikolai, a native of Barbados grew up on the island spending time with his family and playing football and cricket. Nikolai was selected for this award on the basis of academic excellence, and his academic achievements. He commented on being awarded this scholarship,

As our spotlight on Capstone 2022 continues, we’re delighted to highlight Team 24. Team members include Grace Thompson, Melina Papadakis, Lauren Valliere, and Cameron Douglas. Their project was titled Musqueam Fleet Electrification.

The competition was stiff at the 2022 Concept Pitch Competition. Twenty-two teams of University of Waterloo Students pitched their ideas at the Concept $5k semi-finals. Four teams won the coveted $5,000 prize! James Lowman, chemical engineering Ph.D. student, and his team, Cauchy Analytics were one of the big winners!

A toast to the graduating class! Here’s to the future, and to the leaders of tomorrow! Our chemical engineering graduating class has exemplified resilience, determination, and true grit as they have navigated earning their degree during the pandemic.  They persevered during two years of lockdowns, online learning, and virtual lab work to achieve their undergraduate degrees.

On Marth 28th, 2022 the Department of Chemical Engineering proudly displayed its Capstone Design Projects in-person for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Congratulations to Chemical Engineering’s Team 5 students whose project Reduce, Carbonize, Adsorb won the prestigious Palihapitiya Venture Creation Fund award!

Manh-Kien Tran is optimistic about the future and the promise of advances in energy storage systems to pave the way for a cleaner, more energy-efficient society.

As a doctoral student in chemical engineering at the University of Waterloo, he hopes to contribute to that future through research focused on cloud-based battery management, with an emphasis on lithium-ion batteries.

You can fill the campus with the brightest students and professors and not be able to deliver the best undergraduate and graduate programs or carry out groundbreaking research, unless you also have outstanding staff in support of the academic mission.  Skillful solvers of technical, logistical, organizational and communication problems, attentive caretakers of information, infrastructure and students, the Chemical Engineering technical, instructional and administrative staff are the unsung heroes of our Department.

Since the Industrial Revolution and the increase of mass production, we have seen a continuous increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Climate change, environmental pollution and the depletion of resources result from a linear economy based on using million-year-old carbon sources for products that are often used for just a few minutes.

By Brian Caldwell.  This article was originally published on Waterloo News.

Two researchers at Waterloo Engineering have made the semi-finals of a multi-year contest to develop new food production technologies and systems to sustain astronauts on long space missions.