Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Six engineering researchers are receiving more than $3.3 million to partner with Canadian-based companies and government organizations on strategic research projects.
The funding for Strategic Partnership Grants announced March 1 by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) brings expertise from academia and industry together to collaborate on research that will lead to innovation and commercialization.
The University of Waterloo was awarded a total of $3.9 million in funding announced in Toronto by Kirsty Duncan, Minister of Science.
The engineering researchers who will receive support through Strategic Partnership Grants are:
- Slim Boumaiza (Electrical and Computer Engineering) with BlackBerry Ltd. and Skyworks Solutions Inc: Digitally-assisted analog/RF circuits for enhancing the performance of 5G millimeter-wave massive MIMO transceivers ($581,844).
- Karim S. Karim (Electrical and Computer Engineering) with Teledyne DALSA: High resolution, hard X-ray digital imagers for destructive testing applications ($597,000).
- Hyung-Sool Lee (Civil and Environmental Engineering) with John Wood Group PLC: Innovative technologies for controlling dissolved methane and nitrogen in anaerobic wastewater treatment ($567,300).
- John Long (Electrical and Computer Engineering) with Synopsys Inc. and Skyworks Solutions Inc: 2D material thin-film transistors and components for RF/mixed-signal applications ($633,613).
- Sriram Narasimhan (Civil and Environmental Engineering) with the City of Guelph, C3Water, Terepac Corporation, Toronto Water and Eramosa Engineering Inc: A novel monitoring and decision support system to manage water loss in urban water distribution systems ($503,448).
- Aiping Yu (Chemical Engineering) with Grafoid Inc. and Microbonds Inc: Advanced graphene fiber based wearable supercapacitor ($450,000).