New Projects Available

Faculty MemberProjectsAccepting Graduate Students
D. Grant Allen
  • Photocatalytic pretreatment for anaerobic treatment of pulp mill wastewaters (with Frank Gu)

  • Microfluidics for direct carbon capture by algae in buildings (with Ben Hatton, MSE)
Yes:
MASc
Gisele Azimi
  • Recycling of lithium ion batteries. We will look at different aspects of the recycling process of various cathode materials like NMC and LFP

  • Supercritical fluid extraction for the recovery of valuable metals from primary and secondary resources

  • Development of lithium ion and aluminum ion batteries. We will focus on development of cathode materials and electrolytes

  • Extraction of rare earth elements from uncommon ore materials. We will develop the extraction process and elucidate the process mechanism
Yes:
PhD
Timothy P. Bender
  • Accelerated materials development
  • Materials development via applied chemistry and/or chemistry to be developed

  • Physical characterization of materials for applications

  • Materials development for applications – and are engineered in the laboratory

  • Engineering organic solar cells (OSCs)/organic photovoltaics (OPVs)

  • Engineering organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs)

  • Life cycle analysis of OSCs/OPVs and OLEDs in true environment

  • Sustainability chemical processes

  • Sustainable materials for applications
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Arthur Chan
  • Chemicals in airborne tire wear particles

  • Nanofiber emissions from laundry

  • Chemical evolution of nanoplastic particles
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Y-H. Chin
  • Industrial catalytic technology developing: understanding the effects of microenvironment in sustainable chemical and fuel synthesis

  • Bridging thermo- and electro-catalysis in the synthesis of sustainable liquid fuel

  • Connect the structure and reactivity of transition metal catalysts in C-H, C-O, C-C bond activation
Yes:
PhD
Levente L. Diosady
  • Fortification of tea - iron and folic acid

  • Multiple fortification of salt - iron, zinc, B vitamins, iodine

  • Protein isolation from oilseeds/legumes as nutraceuticals or meat replacers

  • Scale-up of folic acid fortification for Ethiopia, UNICEF
    Field analytical kit for folic acid
Yes:
PhD
Elizabeth A. Edwards
  • Anaerobic microbial biotransformation of pollutants
Yes:
MASc
Greg J. Evans
  • Traffic Related Air Pollution
    Particle Emission from Vehicle Brakes and Tires

  • Impact of Wildfires on Air Quality

  • Engineering Education Research
Potentially
Jennifer Farmer
  • Chemical Engineering Education based projects
Yes:
MASc
Ramin R. Farnood
  • Photocatalytic conversion of biomass to value added chemicals
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Charles Q. Jia
  • Developing Nature-based Climate Solutions by Exploring Biochar
Yes:
PhD
Donald W. Kirk
  • Hydrocarbonization of plastics

  • Electrochemical CO2 conversion
Yes:
MASc
Mahadevan, Radhakrishnan
  • Machine learning for bio catalyst engineering

  • Bioengineering Mine Tailings for Nickel Extraction

  • Hybrid Deterministic and Machine Learning for Metabolic Engineering
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Emma R. Master
  • Enzyme engineering

  • Biocatalytic synthesis of bio-based materials
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Alison P. McGuigan
  • Adipose tissue engineering and Cancer Biology
Yes:
PhD
Moosavi, Seyed Mohamad
  • Large Language Models for Chemical Discovery

  • Deep Learning for Chemical Geometry

  • Materials Discovery for Carbon Capture and Battery thermal Cooling
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Vladimiros G. Papangelakis
  • Water capture and purification from mining and process operations

  • Bioleaching of tailings

  • Rare Earth Element extraction from ores
Yes:
MASc
Arun Ramchandran
  • PhD project 1: Flow-induced coalescence and breakup rates of double emulsions and Janus droplets in creating polymer+drug microparticles

  • PhD project 2: Evaluation of interfacial transport and microscale transport in a water-oil system by using a hyperspectral camera
Yes:
PhD
Cindy Rottmann
  • MASc student: Professionally situated ethical development: Early career engineers in Canada and Australia navigate the historic tension between business and science in construction, mining, and biomedical industries.

  • PhD student: Engineering Workforce Transformation Requirements in Response to Artificial Intelligence (PI is Susan McCahan, but I will supervise one student for phase 3--qualitative)
Potentially
Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling
  • AI for ChemE/Chemistry

  • AI for Enzyme discovery/optimization

  • Explainability/Interpretability of scientific experiments (XAI)
Yes:
PhD
Molly S. Shoichet
  • Therapeutic delivery and discovery strategies
Yes:
PhD
Jay Werber
  • Enhanced Reverse Osmosis for Treatment of High-Salinity Brines

  • Ion-Selective Electrodialysis for Battery Recycling and Resource Recovery
Yes:
MASc & PhD
Ning Yan
  • Circular biobased functional polymers replacing petrochemicals

  • Low carbon green adhesives, additives and foams for construction and automotives
Yes:
PhD