Record-breaking Graditude

This year's Graditude campaign was the most successful one yet, with students from across the Faculty raising over $8200. The Chem Eng fourth year students raised over $1500, with more money from additional years. The Chem Eng Graditude Reps (Katie Henderson, Akash Kaushal, Madonna Khalil, Larissa Rodo and Raphael Soldi-Giribaldi) want to thank everyone who participated, including:

Prof. Paul Szabo - for being Santa

Jane Chung, Brenda Cromb, Cecilia Konney - for playing dodgeball

Profs. Mims, Chin, Chan, Allen, Cluett, McGuigan, Paul Jowlabar, Christina Heidorn, Cecilia Konney and Mel Duhamel - for showing off your talents and dazzling the students!

Prof. Norval - for donating two of his signature sweaters and helping us raise $250 in one shot

Prof. Norval, Allen and Evans - for karaoke-ing with the students at Iron Ring

An extra special thank you to Cecilia Konney for all her behind-the-scenes help and support!!

Without you all, this would not have been possible! Thank you for supporting our students!

Spring Convocation - Save the Date!

The Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry will celebrate the convocation of our graduate and undergraduate students in the morning of Wednesday, June 18. A series of activities will be hosted on that day to mark this special occasion. Faculty and staff are invited to participate - details coming soon, save the date!

April 11, 2014

In this issue:

Departmental Offices
Announcements
Chem Eng Events

Departmental Offices

Announcements

Lectures at the Leading Edge - Nomination deadline extended

We are now planning our Lectures at the Leading Edge seminar series for the 2014-2015 academic year. Please forward your nominations to Cecilia Konney (cecilia.konney@utoronto.ca) by
Friday, April 18 (deadline extended).

To assist in the nomination procedure, please provide the following particulars of the nominee:
Name, affiliation, department, URL, Departmental Cluster that best aligns with the proposed lecturer (see list below), reason for nomination (in a few sentences)

Please be as specific as possible in your reasons for nomination and include a short description of how this researcher has influenced his/her field, as this information can be elucidated only by a researcher already familiar with the nominee’s field. Please also include a copy of the nominee’s CV, and a list of his/her recent and most significant publications.

Please note that, by putting forth a nomination, you are agreeing to host the lecturer. A list of hosting duties can be obtained from Cecilia.

The departmental clusters and their leaders are as follows:
• Biomolecular & Biomedical Engineering - Chris Yip
• Bioprocess Engineering – Brad Saville
• Environmental Science Engineering – Elizabeth Edwards
• Chemical & Materials Process Engineering – Vlad Papangelakis
• Informatics – Joe Paradi
• Pulp and Paper – Honghi Tran
• Surface & Interface Engineering – Charles Mims
• Sustainable Energy – Don Kirk

CEGSA Easter Egg Decorating Fun-shop

Do you want to celebrate spring and feel like a kid again? CEGSA invites you to join their Easter Egg Decorating Fun-shop on Wednesday, April 16 at 2:30 PM in the Graduate Common Room (WB247). Show off your amazing egg decorating skills or enjoy some treats and hot drinks during FIKA. If you are interested, please click here and fill in your name so the organizers can ensure that there will be enough eggs and materials.

Celebrating Engineering Excellence

Dean Cristina Amon invites all faculty and staff to attend the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering's 7th annual Celebrating Engineering Excellence Reception on Wednesday, April 23, 4-6pm in GB202, to recognize the recipients of major honours, awards and research grants, celebrate all your successes, and look back on another outstanding academic year. This reception will feature the presentation of the Faculty's staff, research and teaching awards. RSVP by email to reception.engineering@ecf.utoronto.ca by Monday, April 14.

U of T Bring Our Children to Work Day 2014

On Thursday, April 24, you are invited to bring your daughters and sons, currently in grades 4 to 7, to work! For more information and a list of available tours and registration information, please visit the HR site.

2014 Summer Safety Training Schedule

Part I: In-Person training , Monday, May 5, 2014, 9:30 to 11:30 am, BA-1160
Part II: On-line training (to be completed prior to the in-person exam)
Part III: In-Person Examination, Thursday, May 8, 2014, 10:00 to 10:30 am, WB-116

The training is compulsory for all summer students/personnel, including those in volunteer positions and on co-op placements.

ILead ChemE Summer Program

ILead ChemE Summer Program is a learning initiative program for students to learn about leadership through the process of self-discovery and team-building. If you have any students in your labs or offices who would be interested in joining us once a week, please feel free to have them attend the 1st session, Friday, May 9 or contact Cecilia in WB 218 for more details.

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