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It was an action packed afternoon as 15 Capstone Design team finalists pitched their projects to win over $60,000 in awards!

On April 4, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering hosted the first annual Esch Entrepreneurship Capstone Design Awards, culminating two weeks of extraordinary student innovation at the 2014 Capstone Design Symposia.

View gallery of Esch Entrepreneurship and Sedra People's Choice Awards

Two electrical engineering alumni have been appointed to important senior leadership positions. At the end of March, Telus Corp named Joe Natale the telecommunications company's next chief executive officer. Natale, who joined Telus in 2003, is a frequent guest speaker on entrepreneurship at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ. He graduated with a À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ electrical engineering degree in 1987.

A paper by chemical engineering faculty members Tom Duever and Alex Penlidis and doctoral candidate Niousha Kazemi was chosen 'best presentation of the AIChE session' byJohn R. Richards, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The paper entitled Demystifying the estimation of reactivity ratios for terpolymerization systems was based on a conference presentation at the November 2013 AIChE Conference.

Pearl Sullivan, À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's dean of engineering, announced March 31 that undergraduate students applying for À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering’s Accelerated Master’s program will be eligible for top up funding of $4,500 to supplement funding available through NSERC Student Research Awards.

À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering women were honoured during March's National Engineering Month with a faculty member, two graduate students, and an alumna included as part of #30in30, an initiative that featured 30 outstanding women in engineering over 30 days.

Critical research into health care operations, medical imaging systems, micro-nano devices for cancer detection and smart energy distribution received a boost with four À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Engineering professors receiving new and renewed appointments as Canada Research Chairs on March 28.

The appointments add more than $2 million in funding to the Faculty.

Palette, Petro Predict, SparkGig and TrendRadius, four passionate startups with strong collaborators, solid business models and great pitches walked away with funding of $25,000 each and coveted spots in the Velocity’s business incubation hub. 

Three graduate students from the Faculty of Engineering competed in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ’s second annual university-wide Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.

From March 26th's Daily Bulletin

Barry Wills, a member of the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's first graduating class of engineers and one of the University's longest-serving faculty members, died March 18 at the age of 74.

Wills, who was a systems design engineering professor, retired in 2006 after 42 years with the Faculty of Engineering.

Rania Al-Hammoud is one of three University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students to be awarded the .