Mandel Scientific supports Western Engineering
L to R: Andrew Hrymak, Dean of Western Engineering; Michael P. Cauley, President of Mandel Scientific Company Inc., Ajay Ray, Department Chair of Chemical Engineering; Hugo de Lasa, Chemical Engineering Professor and Director of Western’s Chemical Reactor Engineering Centre; Mike Green, Technical Sales Specialist at Mandel Scientific and Bruce Joy, Product Manager at Mandel Scientific.
Western Engineering welcomed representatives from Mandel Scientific Company Inc. to campus on Oct. 27, 2011 to
formally dedicate the Mandel Scientific Company Inc. Laboratory in the Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Pavilion.
Representatives from the company included: Michael Cauley, President; Mike Green, Technical Sales Representative; and
Bruce Joy, Product Manager. The newly named Mandel Scientific Company Inc. Laboratory is part of Western’s Chemical
Reactor Engineering Centre (CREC) - a research and consulting laboratory to develop new reactor technologies in close
collaboration with the industrial sector. “This laboratory space represents the significant impact that industry can have on
education and research,” explains Western Engineering Dean, Andrew Hrymak. “Mandel Scientific Company’s generous
support of research in chemical reactor engineering is helping Western Engineering researchers and students to make a
difference.”
CREC was founded by chemical engineering professor Hugo de Lasa in 1988. It rapidly became one of the best reactor
engineering labs in the world, recognized internationally as a centre of expertise and innovation for new chemical reactor
technologies and ideas. The aim of the CREC is to become a leader in pollution prevention and control. The centre is driving
and inspiring the development and implementation of inventive products and reactor technologies for the petrochemical,
chemical and energy industries. CREC is helping these sectors with challenges such as transforming petroleum feedstocks
and converting intermediate petrochemical products. Engineers at the CREC have partnered effectively with numerous
industries, government organizations and universities, both within Canada and abroad, to collaborate on joint research
efforts.