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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. 

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. 

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.

Three fourth-year management engineering students are the winners of the 2012 National Student Paper Award of Supply Chain Logistics Canada. Jessica McPhee, Ari Paunonen and Taufiq Ramji based their paper on their fourth-year design project entitled Night-Time Deliveries for Nestle Ice Cream.  The team  members will be presented with their award at the 45th Supply Chain Annual Conference and Tradeshow.

Akram Nour, a civil engineering doctoral candidate and Kevin Yeung, a fourth-year civil engineering student, are two of the winners of the 2012 national scholarship competition held by the Canadian Institute of Transportation Engineers. Nour won the CITE Michel Van Aerde Memorial Award for doctoral students and Yeung was awarded the CITE HDR Undergraduate Award. The awards program honours outstanding achievement in transportation engineering and distinguished service to CITE.
 

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Baja SAE Team unveils 2012 vehicle

2012 Baja SAE Vehicle

On Tuesday, April 3, the University of Waterloo's Baja SAE design team unveiled their 2012 all-terrain vehicle in Engineering's Student Design Centre. Designed over the Spring and Fall 2011 school terms and constructed between January and March, the car will take part in a competition in Portland, Oregon, from May 2-5, 2012.