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Shesha H Jayaram, an electrical and computer engineering professor, and Chitral J Angammana, who completed his PhD under Jayaram’s supervision in 2011, have been honoured with 2012 IEEE James R. Melcher Prize Paper Award for their paper entitled Analysis of the Effects of Solution Conductivity on Electrospinning Process and Fiber Morphology. The award that recognizes the best Electrostatic Processes Committee papers published in the IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications was presented during the 2012 Joint Electrostatics Conference held in Cambridge, Ontario in June.

Nicole Shum, who will begin nanotechnology engineering this fall at Waterloo, has been honoured with a $60,000 Canadian Schulich Leader Scholarship.  The new award recognizes students across Canada who demonstrate excellence in academics and/or community leadership and who plan to study one of the STEM subjects — Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics — during their undergraduate years.

Engineering's alumni list officially increased June 16 with the convocation of 1,359 students in two ceremonies. Highlights included the first class of 40 management engineering students receiving their degrees. The management engineering program was established in 2007 to provide undergraduate students with the "engineering education required to understand, design, implement, and manage complex management systems upon which organizations depend."

Several civil engineering students, faculty members and alumni won best paper awards at two recent annual events. At the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering Annual Conference held in Edmonton alumnus Beatrice Yung and faculty members Bryan Tolson and Donald Burn were recognized with the  best paper award in the hydrotechnical area published in the Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. The award for the best paper on bridge engineering published in the same journal was won by alumnus Reid Coughlin and faculty member Scott Walbridge.

The inaugural class of 40 Waterloo management engineering undergraduate students will graduate during spring convocation on June 16. The innovative program was launched in 2007 to provide undergraduate students with an engineering education required to understand, design, implement, and manage complex management systems upon which organizations depend.
Other highlights of engineering’s two convocation ceremonies include the awarding of honorary doctor of engineering degrees to two champions of Waterloo Engineering: William Tatham and Ray Tanguay.

Groundbreaking two-way wireless technology resulting in vastly superior voice and data services has been developed by a Waterloo Engineering research team led by Amir K. Khandani, the Canada Research Chair in Wireless Systems.The new technology enables wireless signals to be sent and received at the same time on a single radio channel frequency. 

Twenty engineering faculty members are being recognized with others across campus through the outstanding performance fund established by the university in 2005 to reward faculty members for outstanding contribution in teaching and scholarship.

A team of fourth-year chemical engineering students took top prize in the 2012 Minerva Safety Engineering Design competition. Held annually by Minerva Safety Management Education, the competition is intended to encourage colleges and universities to incorporate safety management education into core curricula.

A University of Waterloo team, headed by Eihab Abdel-Rahman of systems design engineering, is receiving a $1.2 million boost in federal funding. Abdel-Rahman leads a team working on a system of sensors that will detect, through hand movement on a steering wheel, whether a driver has any alcohol in his or her system.

Devon Rizzo, a second-year management engineering student, captured the women's title at the Canadian University/College Championship on June 1 at the Cordova Bay Golf Course in Victoria, B.C. Garrett Rank, a uWaterloo economics student, won the men's title. 

Both Waterloo Warriors won in thrilling fashion with Rizzo taking the title on the third playoff hole while Rank birdied four of his last six holes to win the championship by three strokes.