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Nanotechnology Engineering alumni Samer Kurdi (BASc ’12) is participating in the 69^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which is taking place in Lindau, Germany, between June 30 and July 5, 2019.

The annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meetings focus alternately on physiology and medicine, physics, and chemistry – the three natural science Nobel Prize disciplines. This year’s meeting is dedicated to physics.

Farnaz Niroui (BASc ’11), who is now working as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is profiled here as part of the Nanotechnology Engineering program’s count down to its 15^th anniversary in 2020.

Read about her experience in the program and advice for NE students.

The Nanotechnology Engineering program is pleased to welcome 2018 Loran Scholar Lauren Prophet to the class of 2021.

Engineering 7’s dynamic new meeting space provided the perfect setting for the Nanotechnology Engineering Capstone Design Symposium. The event, held on March 22, gave twenty-two teams of fourth-year nanotechnology engineering students the opportunity to present their Capstone Design projects to potential employers, industry representatives, faculty, family and friends.

Mina Labib (BASc ’13) moved halfway around the world to pursue his Nanotechnology Engineering degree and now travels around the world  installing Angstrom Engineering’s Physical Vapor Deposition and Chemical Vapor Deposition systems, making sure they work as requested and training researchers how to use and maintain them.

This story about Nanotechnology Engineering alumni Mohit Verma (BASc ’12), Assistant Professor at Purdue University Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, is the second is a series that highlights some of our outstanding graduates, their reasons for studying nanotechnology and the interesting career paths they have taken since graduating.

A team of keen NE 100 students took advantage of some new course material and used their Computer-Aided Design (CAD) modelling skills to compete in a NASA-sponsored design competition.

As the Nanotechnology Engineering program counts down to its 15^th anniversary in 2020, we are celebrating the many contributions that our alumni are making in a wide range of exciting careers.

Read about Fei Hua Li (BASc ’11), Process Engineer for Lam Research, to learn why she chose Waterloo’s innovative Nanotechnology Engineering program and how she used it as a springboard to a rewarding career and lifestyle.

Congratulations to NE alumnus Moin Ahmed (NE Class of ’16) whose team, Membio, won $25,000 in equity-free financing at the Velocity Fund Finals in November. Moin Ahmed, who went on to earn his Master’s of Chemical Engineering at UWaterloo, and Shane Kilpatrick, who recently earned his Master’s of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology at UWaterloo, formed Membio to develop their scalable biological manufacturing platform.

Farnaz Niroui, (NE Class of 2010) has accepted a position as assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Working from her office in the new MIT.nano facilities, she will focus part of her research on developing new nanotechnology-related tools and techniques. Farnaz begins her new job in January 2019.