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.
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
It is the time again to have these exciting events to welcome our admitted students to the Chemical Engineering Department.
Information Booth:
Location: Engineering 5 (E5), 2nd Floor, Time: 9:00-4:00 PM
Chemical Engineering Departmental Showcase -
Welcome and Presentation: 2:00-2:45
Lab Tours - 2:45-4:00 (various labs locations)
Location: Engineering 6 (E6) Room # 2024 (2nd floor)
Congratulations to PhD student Katharina Hassel who won the first place award - "Reg Friesen student oral paper award" held at the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering Conference, Fredericton, NB. October 21, 2013.
Congratulations to Yung Priscilla Lai, Kyung Eun Sun and Hiroki Takamura on winning the 2nd 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.
The QS international university rankings have placed Waterloo at No. 46 (No. 2 in Canada) for Engineering & Technology this year, surpassing both UBC and McGill University.