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Rana Tehrani Yekta is bright, ambitious and an inspiration for women in engineering. The civil engineering master's student is the newest $10,000 Vale Master’s in Engineering Scholarship winner and joins the list of impressive women who represent the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) and Vale in encouraging youth and promoting engineering as a profession to women across Canada.

The scholarship is awarded annually to the most promising woman in a graduate engineering program at the master’s level in Canada and comes with a work place opportunity with Vale.

Looking for information on the impact of information technology on people at work and other thought-provoking topics? Guest speakers on information technology and other subjects presented to management sciences professor Peter Carr's classes are available on YouTube.  The speakers include:

Three Waterloo Engineering researchers were among the 11 throughout the Waterloo Region who received prestigious Early Researcher Awards that were announced by John Milloy, MPP for Kitchener Centre, on May 4. Alexander Wong of systems design engineering, Zhongwei Chen and Boxin Zhao, both of chemical engineering, received $140,000 each to support their research projects. 

Waterloo Engineering's incoming associate dean, teaching is one of eight professors province-wide to receive a 2012 Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Christopher Backhouse, an electrical and computer engineering professor, has been appointed the new director of Waterloo's nanotechnology engineering program.  His term runs from May 1, 2012 to April 30, 2015.  Backhouse will succeed current director Marios Ioannidis of chemical engineering.  
 

Lola Sheppard, a School of Architecture professor, has been selected as the recipient of Architecture Canada's 2012 Young Architect Award.
Sheppard, who has been honoured with several awards in the past year including the 2011 Holcim Gold Award, is one of the founding directors of InfraNet Lab, a design research company dedicated to the role infrastructures and networks play in our environment. 

William Tatham and Réal (Ray) Tanguay, both strong supporters of engineering education at the University of Waterloo, will receive honorary doctorates during the university's spring convocation ceremonies on June 16. 

The research of electrical and computer engineering professor Sherman Shen has been recognized with two best paper awards. Shen and his research collaborators in Japan received the 2012 Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference for "End-to-End Delay in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Generalized Transmission Range and Limited Packet Redundancy." The conference was held in Paris, France, April 1-4. Shen and his doctoral students Y. Liu, L.X.