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Raymond Legge |
Raymond Legge |
Yuni g i |
Associate Professor
Chandra Mouli Madhuranthakam |
Lecturer
Neil McManus |
Research Assistant Professo
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Murray Moo-Young |
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Yuning Li became the Editorial Board Member for Advances in
Nanoparticles and AIMS Environmental Science in 2013, while
continuing to serve as the Associate Editor of Martials Focus and
the Editorial Board Member for Organic Photonics and Photovol-
taics. He was included in the Marquis Who's Who in the World
2013 and the AcademicKeys Who's Who in Engineering Higher
Education (WWEHE). He gave talks at the 96th Canadian
Chemistry Conference and Exhibition in Quebec City, and
seminars at FPInnovations and Celestica. His group developed a
new polymer semiconductor, which showed the world record
electron mobility of 6.3 cm2V-1s-1 in organic thin film transistors
(the previous record was 3 cm2V-1s-1). He published 9 papers in
SCI journals. His journal articles were cited ~670 times in 2013
alone and his h-index reached 33 according to the Thomson
Reuters’ Web of Science. He was awarded 5 US patents and his
total number of issued US patents reached 70.
Chandra Mouli Madhuranthakam has volunteered to teach the last
batch of students at the UW-Dubai campus during the Winter
2013. In addition to teaching the first year students at Dubai
campus, Mouli also gave a seminar on "optimal tuning parameters
for PID controllers" which happened to be a part of The Donald
Edward Grierson Memorial Seminar Series in UW-UAE campus.
While in Dubai, Mouli visited The Petroleum Institute (PI) in Abu
Dhabi for possible/promising research ties/collaborations with
some of the faculty at PI. During the Fall 2013, Mouli was one of
the chemical engineering representatives at the Ontario Universi-
ties' Fair helping prospective students to UW. Further, Mouli
received appreciation letters from the Dean of Engineering for
outstanding teaching in some of the courses taught in 2013.
Neil McManus has been working in the NE program this year as
interim lab instructor. It was an important session for NE as it was
a first run through of the assigned laboratory exercises in the
brand new teaching laboratory space in QNC building. The work
on the NE laboratory exercises continues with a critical examina-
tion of current experiments in NE program with a view to possible
changes in content, or replacement by new laboratory experiments
for future. He is also active in the department’s safety- and
teaching laboratory-committees. Neil’s research into water soluble
polymers, that have potential as process additives for oil recovery,
is progressing leading to 2 new publications and presentations at
the CSChe and Institute of Polymer Research Conferences. He is
also looking at melt phase modification of commodity polymers
and results of this work were presented at the Society of Plastic
Engineers conference in the USA.
Murray Moo-Young, distinguished professor emeritus, continued
over the past year (2013) to contribute to the Chemical Engineer-
ing department as an active researcher, HQP trainer and invited
speaker at conferences worldwide. He was funded by external
enterprises and by three NSERC grants: Discovery, Strategic and
Strategic Network. Murray co-supervised 10 trainees (two postdoc-
toral associates and eight graduate students) with colleagues,
primarily with Perry Chou. He served as a board director of the
university-based Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology. He
co-authored nine peer-reviewed journal papers. For outreach
activities, Murray initiated potential collaborations between faculty
members at University of Waterloo and Conestoga College in a
major joint thrust by the Cities of Waterloo and Cambridge on food
processing technology in the region. Murray is the editor-in-chief of
the journal Biotechnology Advances which, with an Impact Factor
of 9.599, is the 4th rank of the current 157 biotechnology- related
journals.
