First staff members receive award named for late dean

Congratulations to Doug Hirst and Liping Fu from Civil and Environmental Engineering on your outstanding accomplishments.

The winners of the Pearl Sullivan Outstanding Staff Teaching Award were recently announced along with the honorees of other major Faculty awards.

Jim Baleshta of mechanical and mechatronics engineering and Jenn Coggan of nanotechnology engineering are the inaugural recipients of the award introduced this year to honour the late Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering from July 1, 2012 to December 31, 2019.

Sullivan was the first woman to hold the position of dean of Waterloo Engineering and just the fifth woman across Canada to head a school of engineering. Under her leadership from July 2012 to December 2019, the faculty reimagined engineering education and research with revolutionary spaces and transformative programs. To continue reading this story click here.