Chemical engineering at Waterloo described as hot stuff

A Waterloo Region Record article, entitled UW chemical engineering students hope to change the future, takes a look at the wide range of innovative research taking place in the department’s new home in Engineering 6. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as current faculty and retired faculty members were interviewed for the feature that describes Waterloo’s chemical engineering as “hot stuff.” The department, once housed in the first facility built on Waterloo’s campus, now has 800 undergraduate students, 155 grad students, 35 faculty, 15 staff and more than 4,000 alumni. Research funding tops $5-million a year. “What was exciting about the early days was that it was extremely dynamic,” said Tom Fahidy, a 77-year-old professor emeritus who came to the chemical engineering program in 1964. “We were always encouraged to do new things.”