On September 7, alumnae Mina Mahdian (ChemE MASc 1T9) won second place in an oral presentation during the 2021 Virtual International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) / Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition (CCCE). Her presentation entitled, Enhanced Solar Water Evaporation under Low-intensity Sunlight with Wood Biochar Monolith (WBM), was presented as part of […]
The North American Membrane Society (NAMS) held its 2021 Annual Meeting in Colorado from September 22-25. During the conference, Professor Jay Werber received the NAMS Young Membrane Scientist Award and gave a special oral presentation titled, Heterogeneous Ionization Behavior of Polyamide Thin-Film Composite Membranes for Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration. Polyamide thin-film composite desalination membranes are […]
Two ChemE PhD candidates have earned 2021 Cecil Yip Doctoral Research Awards. The annual awards celebrate first-year graduate students in the Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research who engage in interdisciplinary research to advance discovery, medicine and health. They were established in 2015 by the family of late Professor Cecil Yip, former Vice-Dean of […]
Patrick Diep, a PhD Candidate supervised by Profs. Alexander Yakunin and Krishna Mahadevan, placed 3rd at the 60th Conference of Metallurgists which was virtually hosted by MetSoc from August 17-19. Currently, liquid mine effluents may contain dissolved metals at concentrations too low to be economically extracted by existing technologies, yet too high for environmental discharge. […]
Prof. Honghi Tran (ChemE) was named to the Paper360o Top 50 Power List for 2021. This list, now in its 14th year, names the biggest movers and shakers of the year in pulp and paper. The winner of the two highest technical awards in the North American pulp and paper industry (TAPPI’s Gunnar Nicholson Gold […]
Story originally appeared on the TAPPI website July 29, 2021 For the first time since the award’s inception in 2006, two papers have been selected as TAPPI Journal Best Research Paper for 2020. “The six papers that were nominated this year covered a wide range of the entire pulp, paper, and supplier industries, making the selection […]
Zhu Hao Yu (ChemE BASc 1T8, MASc 2T0) was recently awarded 2nd Place for Best Master’s Thesis by CSChE. This annual award recognizes outstanding Canadian Master’s theses which contribute to the advancement of the field of chemical engineering. Zhu Hao’s graduate research under the supervision of Prof. Elodie Passeport focused on evaluating the potential of […]
This article was originally published by the University Network of Excellence in Nuclear Engineering Professor Roger Newman (ChemE) Jared Smith (Canadian Nuclear Laboratories), and Suraj Persaud (Queen’s University), have won the 2021 Best Corrosion Paper Award given by the editorial board by CORROSION: The Journal of Science and Engineering. This award is given to the most […]
Story by Tyler Irving, U of T Engineering News Two members of the U of T Engineering community have been honoured with Engineers Canada Awards, a series of national awards celebrating engineers who have made distinguished contributions to Canada. Professor William Cluett (ChemE) has earned the Medal for Distinction in Engineering Education, which recognizes an engineer who […]
On Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021, six ChemE graduands received Student Life Catalyst Awards presented by the Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the 2021 Virtual U of T Engineering Convocation Celebration held in Gather.town. Nora Alganabi (ChemE 2T1), Samantha Cheung (ChemE PhD 2T1), Madison Desembrana (ChemE 2T0+PEY), Amirhossein Foroozan Ebrahimy (ChemE PhD 2T1), […]