Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice/ Prix Bantrel de la conception et de la pratique industrielle.

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The Bantrel Award in Design and Industrial Practice is given to a Canadian citizen or a resident of Canada for innovative design or production activities accomplished in Canada.

Le Prix Bantrel de la conception et de la pratique industrielle est presenta a un citoyen canadien ou une personne qui reside au Canada pour souligner une conception ou des activites de production novatrices effectuees au Canada.

Jesse Zhu, FCIC The University of Western Ontario Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Jesse Zhu is a Canada Research Chair in the department of chemical and biochemical engineering at The University of Western Ontario, with established international reputation in the research areas

of fluidization and particle technology, reflected by a substantial number of publications, research funding, and international scholarly activities such as chairing national and international conferences and serving on journal editorial boards (www.zhu.ca). Currently, he has a very large research program of 5e members and his team works on many aspects of particulate and multiphase flow systems. In addition to fundamental research, he is particularly active in technology development and transfer, with ten granted and five pending patents, and six technologies for commercialization (three licenses so far).

Zhu is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada and has chaired the technical program for the e8th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference. In 1999, he won the CSChE Syncrude Innovation Award, given yearly to a chemical engineer under the age of e0. Other eminent research awards to his credit include the Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award, the Outstanding Scholar's Award by the Chinese National Science Foundation, and the Engineering Award for Achievement in Research by The University of Western Ontario.