Water Institute member John Yeow, a Waterloo Engineering faculty member and the Canada Research Chair in Micro and Nanodevices, has been honoured with IEEE Canada’s Outstanding Engineer Award for 2020.
He
was
recognized
for
“his
significant
contributions
to
the
research
&
development
and
commercialization
of
micro/nanodevices
for
medical
and 
industrial
applications.”
Yeow, a systems design engineering professor who is cross-appointed to mechanical and mechatronics engineering, and electrical and computer engineering, is also the director of the University’s Advanced Micro and Nanodevice Lab.
He is currently developing nanodevices and highly selective sensors that will help create new medical instruments for diagnosing and treating disease. These include MEMS optical scanner for endoscopic optical coherence tomographic imaging, micromirror devices for genetic microarray reading and tissue imaging, robotics for micromanipulations of MEMS components, carbon nanotube-based sensors for biomedical applications, and lab-on-a-chip designs.
This year, 11 outstanding Canadian engineers, scientists and technologists were honoured by IEEE Canada for their exemplary contributions during the annual IEEE Canada conference held online last month.