Engineering graduate wins CJChE Best Graduate Student Paper

UBC Engineering graduate Mohammed Alaqquad (CHBE ‘11) has been awarded the Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering Best Paper Award for the manuscript “The Permeability of Wood-Chip Beds: The Effect of Compressibility, Can J Chem Eng 2012, 90, 1278-1288.” Professors D.M. Martinez and C.P.J. Bennington (posthumous) are authors on the manuscript and co-supervised Alaqquad. The award certificate will be presented during the awards banquet at the 63rd Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference in Fredericton in October 2013. For more information, click here.