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 15th 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.
When Bogdan Constantinescu, now a fourth-year Nanotechnology Engineering student, scored a co-op job at a local laboratory equipment manufacturer, he was thrilled to have an opportunity to put his nanotechnology skills to work. The work term was especially interesting because Angstrom Engineering creates machinery and applications that nanotechnology researchers around the world use to innovate new technologies.
Congratulations to second-year Nanotechnology Engineering student Ryan Gallagher for his win at the Norman Esch Enterprise Co-op Awards in September. He is one of two engineering students to win a coveted $5,000 scholarship at the fall 2018 term’s Ignition Week pitch competition.
On Saturday, November 10, 2018, the Mike and Opelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre will host the fourth annual Waterloo Nanotechnology Conference (WNC).
Some diligent students have been recognized for their outstanding achievement in recent terms by their inclusion on the Term Dean’s Honours List for the Nanotechnology Engineering program.
Congratulations to Nanotechnology Engineering’s Aurora Torrijos and Environmental Engineering’s Dana Shahry whose team, Nebula, won $5,000 in seed money at the 22nd Velocity Fund Finals in July. Their prize includes an offer to live in Velocity Residence, an innovative and entrepreneurial environment where students have access to the latest technologies and the opportunity to learn from a network of mentors and entrepreneurs.
With Nebula, third-year students Torrijos and Shahry are developing systems to provide clean drinking water through fog harvesting.