Congratulations to Nanotechnology Engineering’s iuvoderm, KnowStroke and Scope for their wins at the Norman Esch Entrepreneurship Awards for Capstone Design competition. These teams of fourth-year students brought home three of the six $10,000 prizes on offer at this annual pitch competition that recognizes innovative Capstone Design projects.
Congratulations to the SMRT Coat and iuvoderm teams for their success in the Winter 2020 Concept $5k Pitch Competition.
Congratulations to Scope, fourth-year NE students Holden Beggs, Alisha Bhanji, Fernando Peña Cantú, Zhenle Cao and Ishan Mishra, and first-year NE student Athulya Nambiar for their success in the Winter 2020 Quantum Valley Investments® Problem Pitch Competition.
Congratulations to Han Liu, Daniel Stranart and Luke Wiersma for winning first place in the Innovative Design category of the Canadian Engineering Competition (CEC) with the product they designed with Darron Phann for their fourth-year Nanotechnology Engineering Capstone Design project.
Congratulations to Han Liu, Darron Phann, Daniel Stranart and Luke Wiersma, whose Nanotechnology Engineering Capstone Design team won first place in the Innovative Design category of the Ontario Engineering Competition (OEC) at the University of Guelph.
In addition to their exciting concept – a nanomaterial that detects the source of meat decay – Nanotechnology Engineering students Nina Jeorje, James Oswald, Heemal Parimoo and Connor Rupnow have a keen – and award-winning – understanding of the business concepts required to commercialize their technology.
Congratulations to fourth-year Nanotechnology Engineering students Ahmad Lakhani, Matthew Pley, Methely Sharma and Eniko Zsoldos for their Capstone Design team’s recent wins at the third annual Biotechnology and Bioengineering Conference held at the University of Waterloo in November.
Congratulation to Nanotechnology Engineering alumni Amr Abdelgawad (BASc 2016, Nanotechnology Engineering, MBET 2017) Youssef Helwa (BASc 2015, Nanotechnology Engineering, MASc 2017, electrical engineering), co-founders of NERv Technologies, and their colleagues, including Waterloo Engineering alumnus Abdallah El-Falou (MASc 2017, electrical engineering), for their latest win: first place in the Entrepreneurship World Cup (EWC).
Congratulations to fourth-year Nanotechnology Engineering students Arianna Skirzynska, Cindy Yang, Chelsea Leung and Fezza Haider, who have been active – and successful – in this fall’s funding competitions.
Congratulations to fourth-year Nanotechnology Engineering students Holden Beggs, Alisha Bhanji, Zhenle Cao, Ishan Mishra and Fernando Pena. Their Capstone Design team, Scope, won $5,000 in the Concept $5K Finals that were held in Waterloo’s Student Life Centre on November 20, 2019.
The Concept $5K Grant supports University of Waterloo students who aspire to build an early-stage startup.