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Congratulations to two of our graduating students—Diana Wong and Marielle Magtibay—on winning first prize in the Humanitarian Initiatives Committee IEEE Student Competition at the 2013 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Chemical Engineering graduate students Madjid Soltani and Navid Bizmark were both awarded the University's 2013 Outstanding Achievement in Graduate Studies honours for their graduate research. Five of these honours were awarded this year at the Doctoral level and four at the Master’s level.

Grafoid Inc. supports Dr. Aiping Yu’s research on supercapacitor using surface modified graphene.

Grafoid Inc. has signed a R&D agreement to develop a surface tailored graphene material for supercapacitor with potential applications for the automotive and portable electronics sectors.

The R&D agreement includes sponsor $ 200,000 cash for applying NSERC-CRD and $ 50,000 cash for general research donation.

Professor Marc Aucoin, Department of Chemical Engineering has been appointed Academic Director, WatPD-Engineering effective May 1, 2013 to April 30, 2016.

Fourth year Nanotechnology Engineering students Matin Esfahani, Hooman Safaee, Shafi Siddiqi, and Mihail Vlascov were awarded $25,000 in start-up funding through the VeloCity Venture Fund. Their start-up is based upon their Fourth Year Design Project coursework developing transparent scalable displays, Lumotune.

Twenty engineering faculty members are being recognized with others across campus through the outstanding performance fund established by the university in 2005 to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.

ACCN recently interviewed Waterloo chemical engineering professor Marc Aucoin. He discussed his work with ACCN on the production system of viruses and virus like particles for vaccines and gene therapy.

Download and read about the interview (PDF).