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The 2015-2016 Murray Moo-Young Biotechnology Scholarship has been awarded to two Chemical Engineering students: Brandon Seo, a MASc student who is being supervised by Professor Ting Tsui, and Adam Westbrook, a PhD student who is being supervised by Professor Perry Chou.

The Murray Moo-Young Biotechnology Scholarship was established in 1982 with a donation by Distinguished Professor Emeritus Murray Moo-Young to encourage research of bioprocessing strategies in industrial biomanufacturing and environmental bioremediation.

We are pleased to introduce Professor Evelyn Yim to the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her research interests include nanofabrication technologies and stem cell culture. Evelyn’s work on stem cells, nanofabrication and biomaterials supports the advancement of healthcare technologies to repair, replace or regenerate damaged tissue and organ structures.

Grand River Hospital (GRH) has formally activated its halogenated drug recovery (HDR) system, developed through a research initiative lead by Bill Anderson, professor of chemical engineering, and Class 1 Inc. of Cambridge. This new technology will help battle climate change as it captures waste anesthetic gases exhaled by patients undergoing surgery.

Marzieh Riahinezhad (PhD, Chemical Engineering, September 2015) received the international and extremely prestigious “Best Dissertation of the Year ADIPEC Award” in excellence in energy (November 2015). Marzieh’s PhD thesis was selected by an international scientific panel of 26 judges in the oil and gas industry as one of the top three best dissertations of 2015 in energy, worldwide.

Professor Michael Tam's article Schlumberger-Celluforce-Waterloo Design Competition on the use of Cellulose Nanocrystal (CNC) in the Iron Warrior

Alison Scott (BASc ‘13, MASc ‘15, Waterloo), a PhD candidate in the Department of Chemical Engineering, has been awarded the 2015 J. Alan George Leadership Award. This entrance award is offered to female PhD students who demonstrate outstanding leadership.

Professor Alexander Penlidis and graduate student Hadi Izadi (PhD 2014), started working on PhD project with the idea to fabricate "dry adhesives" mimicking the way geckos' feet can stick to surfaces. 

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Congratulations to the Waterloo iGEM team, and their advisors, Marc Aucoin (ChE), Trevor Charles (Biol), Brian Ingalls (Appl Math), Andrew Doxey (Biol), Barb Moffat (Biol) who were awarded Gold, Best Poster, and Best Software Tool and were nominated for Best Foundational Advance project at the 2015 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition held in Boston, MA. The team competed against more than 260 student teams from around the globe.

to visit the University of California - Santa Barbara in the Fall 2015.  He will work on  a project entitled “Studies of marine adhesive systems at molecular and nanoscales for the development of advanced biomimetic adhesive materials” .  The Fulbright Program is merit-based, highly competitive, one of the most prestigious programs worldwide.

The department of Chemical Engineering is pleased to announce the appointment of David Simakov to our faculty. In his new role as assistant professor, he will teach reaction engineering and transport phenomena and continue his research in sustainable reaction engineering. David is a respected researcher, with publications in several leading journals, including Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Catalysis Science & Technology and Applied Catalysis. In addition to his role in Chemical Engineering, David will be actively engaged with the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy (WISE) and the Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology.