Volume 1 - Edition 4
October 18, 2004
54th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference
R.S. Jane Memorial Award
Hugo deLasa,
a professor in the Department of Chemical & Biochemical
Engineering and currently the Director of the Chemical Reactor
Engineering Centre was presented with the R.S. Jane Memorial Award
in recognition of his exceptional achievement in the field of
chemical engineering.
The R.S. Jane Memorial Award was established to
commemorate the memory of the late Dr. Robert Stephen Jane who made
an outstanding contribution to the chemical profession and the
chemical industry in Canada. It is the premier award of The
Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering.
SNC-Lavalin Plant Design Competition
The 2003 - 2004 CBE 497 group was a
finalist
chosen to present its project, Hydrocracking of
Vacuum Gas Oil at the conference. Congratulations to team members Khaled Abdel-Gawad, Mustafa Al-Sabawi, Wailan Chan and Derek Dainher
for placing in the top three.
ISEE Graduate Student Paper Competition
Babak Jajuee, a graduate PhD student from the
Department of Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, won the ISEE
Graduate Student Paper Competition. for his paper, Mechanism of
Surface Renewal Stretch Theory: Applications to Gas-Liquid Mass
Transfer. Jajuee
is conducting his PhD research
under the supervision of Professor A. Margaritis, and
co-supervision of Professors D. Karamanev and M.A. Bergougnou.
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