Flora Ng |
Professor
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Christine Moresoli |
Professor
Rajinder Pal |
Professor
Alexander Penlidis |
Professor, Canada Research Chair
Christine Moresoli has been active in promoting case based
teaching as a vehicle to expose students to real-life complex
scenarios. Her research group activities have focused on the
development and analysis of thermal processes for cereal food
products, membrane chromatography for bioseparations,
fluorescence for membrane fouling control and soy based
composite materials. Christine has expanded her industrial
collaborations with the food sector and membrane filtration
manufacturers. Her group has hosted a number of international
research visitors (France and Germany). This past year marked
the departure of a long time member of her research group who
accepted a position with the Institute for Composite Materials
(Germany).
Flora T.T. Ng , FRSC, FCIC, was honored to receive the 2013
Canadian Green Chemistry and Engineering (Individual) award
from CIC, sponsored by Green Center of Canada. She gave the
award lecture at the CSChE conference in 2013 in Fredericton,
New Brunswick. This award recognizes her research in develop-
ing energy efficient green processes for oil sands upgrading,
production of biofuels and chemicals using novel catalysts and
catalytic distillation for process development. She and her
students presented their research at national and international
conferences. Her research featured in the International Innova-
tion magazine, North American issue. In 2013, Ng was appointed
to Chair the University Appointments Review Committee for a
three year term. One of her Ph.D. students joined Husky Energy
in Calgary. She also hosted a Commonwealth Scholarship
exchange Ph.D . student from India, 1 undergraduate exchange
student from France and two undergraduate exchange students
sponsored by CsF from Brazil.
Rajinder Pal has been busily working on his book entitled
“Electromagnetic, Mechanical, and Transport Properties of
Composite Materials”. The book is expected to be completed in
2014 and will be published by CRC press. His NSERC Discovery
Grant was renewed for five years. On the teaching front, he has
been working hard to improve the delivery of undergraduate
courses to large size classes. For example, he taught ChE 200
(Equilibrium Stage Operations) to a class of more than 100
students. He believes the key to success in dealing with large
sized classes is to keep the students involved and interested in
the lectures. Large classes can become noisy and unmanage-
able if the students are not actively involved.
Alex Penlidis completed a tour of (lecturing) duty in Dubai, UAE,
where he delivered two courses in 2nd year, Chemical Engineer-
ing Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics, from January to April
2013, and interacted with educational and research/industrial
outfits in the area. In the meantime, he mentored 4 undergraduate
students, 1 MASc and 8 PhD students, with whom he wrote 8
refereed papers, 2 refereed conference proceedings and 1 patent,
and presented 7 papers in international conferences, including 2
invited presentations. He acted as guest editor (with his PhD
student Hadi Izadi) for two special issues (7(10) and 7(11)) on
Adhesive Technology and Bio-inspired Adhesives, for Macromol.
React. Eng. (16 papers from the ‘who-is-who’ internationally on
Adhesion Science and Engineering). He is continuing his long-
term academic collaborations with colleagues in Civil, Systems
Design and Electrical/Computer Engineering at Waterloo, and
others at the universities of UNAM (Mexico), Los Andes
(Venezuela), Manipal (Karnataka, India), Toronto and McGill.
