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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.

Capstone Design Project Poster Fair and Meet-the-Professor Night

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 2^nd 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.

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.