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The ChemEngChem Research Day and CIC Annual General Meeting are back! The event will take place on March 30 - 31, 2021.We are delighted with the impressive list of speakers for this special event not to miss! Our invited guests are : Phil De Luna, Carbontech Innovator • Podcast Host • Forbes 30 Under 30 • TEDx Speaker • Wildly optimistic about changing the world Nick Virgilio, B.Ing., M.Sc.A., Ph.D. A special "Next Generation" session...

Professor Jamal Chaouki, the head of PEARL, was recognized as an exceptional researcher and outstanding teacher.  He received this award during the convocation of graduate students of UdeM and Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal Universities. He graduated in 1980 from the National School of Chemical Industries in Nancy, France. He, also, holds a master's and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Polytechnique Montréal, obtained in 1981 and 1985, a...

Jamal Chaouki, the head of PEARL, won the R. S. Jane memorial award 2018.  He received this award  during the 68th chemical engineering conference in Toronto for his exceptional achievements to the field of chemical engineering and industrial chemistry. During this conference, he presented a plenary lecture on “The development of industrial processes in context of sustainability”, in which the usage of clean heating energy, mainly m...

The Plan Magazine, the engineering journal of Quebec, in their last issue September-October 2018 has been dedicated to Pyrowave company, which was received the 2018 Genius Innovation Award from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ). This company was co-founded by Jamal Chaouki, Jucelyn Ducet, and Jean-Philippe Laviolette, head and alumni of PEARL. Pyrowave was awarded the OIQ's 2018 Genius Innovation Award for its cost effective waste-to-fee...

Professor Jamal Chaouki, the head of PEARL, won the  Jane Memorial Award 2018 due to his exceptional achievements to the field of chemical engineering and industrial chemistry. This is the CSChE's highest award, sponsored by the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering. He is full professor from 1995 at Ecole Polytechnique of Montréal. He has supervised more than 80 Ph.D. and Master Students and more than 40 post-docs. The main areas of hi...

Christine Beaulieu, a PhD candidate from PEARL, has won the first prize of 3-minute elevator pitch competition which happened during the Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference 2017 in Edmonton, AB. Her work is about effect of segregation on heat transfer of granular materials in industrial mixers. In this two-round competition, she explained how we face segregation in our daily lives and how this phenomenon can affect the heat transfer efficien...

Mohamed Khalil, PhD Candidate - Chemical Engineering Department, École Polytechnique de Montréal, working under the supervision of Prof. Jamal Chaouki and Prof. Jean-Philippe Harvey, won the 1st place in Polytechnique Montréal' Ma thèse en 180 secondes / Three Minute Thesis competition (Francophone) and the 2nd place (Anglophone). He'll represent Polytechnique at the provincial finals organized by the ACFAS - Association francophone pour...

Mohamed Khalil, doctoral student in chemical engineering, won the Second-place prize of $1,000 of the Business Idea Competition (Concours d'idées d'entreprises) presented by l'Association des Clubs entrepreneurs étudiants du Québec. Mohamed, under the supervision of professor Jamal Chaouki, is working on a new technology for recycling the end-of-life electronics waste, which could greatly facilitate moving forward to produce clean and high qua...