Carolyn Ren is a professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering at the University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy- PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Microfluidics, and Lab-on-a-chip Technologies from University of Toronto.
Along with being a professor at Waterloo, Ren is the director of the Waterloo Microfluidics Laboratory. This lab is used to gain a fundamental understanding of microfluidics and nanofluidics, to develop chip-based technology for biological, chemical and biomedical diagnosis, analysis and treatment (Waterloo News).
Moreover, she is involved in the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, the Waterloo Centre for Microbial Research, the University’s Water Institute and Centre for Bioengineering and Biotechnology (Waterloo News).
Dr. Ren is an entrepreneur. Because of her extreme accomplishments in microfluidic innovations, she has launched four start-up companies with her students: Advanced Electrophoresis Solutions, Alphaxon, QuantWave Technologies, and Air Microfluidics Systems (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering).
Dr. Ren is currently running research programs that focus on developing microfluidics enabled wearable technologies and products. These products include “knee and edema sleeve, instrumentation for protein fractionation, water quality monitoring and infectious disease diagnosis such as the COVID-19 and enabling tools for automated high-throughput single particle or single cell analysis using active droplet microfluidic platform technologies” (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering).
Dr. Carolyn Ren has received many awards for her incredible achievements.
In 2004, she accepted the Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, awarded to outstanding young researchers. In 2007 she was presented, by the Government of Ontario, the Early Research Award, an award dedicated to promising researchers in the province. In 2010, the University of Waterloo recognized her by giving her the Engineering Research Excellence Award for her outstanding research accomplishments. In 2012, she was elected a fellow of the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineering (Cim Magazine). Lastly, she was named, by WXN, Canada’s Top 100 most powerful women in 2021 (Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering).
She is a leading force in STEM in Canada. Her variety of accomplishments show her hard work and perseverance in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering in Canada.
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Works Cited
“Carolyn Ren, PEng (She/Her) | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering.” University of Waterloo, https://uwaterloo.ca/mechanical-mechatronics-engineering/profile/c3ren. Accessed 1 April 2023.
Millar, Anne, et al. “Master of many trades - Carolyn Ren is an expert in multiple engineering fields, an award-winning researcher and has co-founded two corporations.” CIM Magazine, 24 July 2018, https://magazine.cim.org/en/voices/carolyn-ren/. Accessed 1 April 2023.
“2021 Canada's Most Powerful Women | Waterloo News.” University of Waterloo, 25 October 2021, https://uwaterloo.ca/news/2021-canadas-most-powerful-women. Accessed 1 April 2023.
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