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Congratulations to Yung Priscilla Lai, Kyung Eun SunÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýHiroki TakamuraÌýon winning theÌý2^nd place poster presentation (capstone design project) for designing an undergraduate food processing laboratory for the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ, heldÌýat the 4th annual Canadian Engineering Education Association (CEEA) Conference in ÌýMontreal, QC onÌýJune 17-20, 2013.ÌýÌý

PhD student Drew Higgins has been named the recipient of the 2013 Electrochemical Society (ECS) Canadian Section Student Award for his research on nanostructured fuel cell and battery electrode materials, carried out under the supervision ofÌýProf.ÌýZhongwei Chen.

Chemical Engineering graduate studentsÌýMadjid Soltani and Navid Bizmark were both awarded the University'sÌý2013 Outstanding Achievement in Graduate StudiesÌýhonours for their graduate research.ÌýFive of these honours were awarded this year at the Doctoral level and four at the Master’s level.

Grafoid Inc. supports Dr. Aiping Yu’sÌýresearch on supercapacitor using surface modified graphene.

Grafoid Inc. has signed a R&D agreement to develop a surface tailored graphene material for supercapacitor with potential applications for the automotive and portable electronics sectors.

The R&D agreement includes sponsor $ 200,000 cash for applying NSERC-CRD and $ 50,000 cash for general research donation.

Professor Marc Aucoin, Department of Chemical Engineering has been appointed Academic Director, WatPD-EngineeringÌýeffective May 1, 2013 to April 30, 2016.

Fourth year Nanotechnology Engineering students Matin Esfahani, Hooman Safaee, Shafi Siddiqi, and Mihail Vlascov were awarded $25,000 in start-up funding through the . Their start-up is based upon their Fourth Year Design Project coursework developing transparent scalable displays, .