Shirley Wu

 Shirley Wu

Shirley Wu

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Biography

University of Toronto St. George Campus - Health Science



Experience

  • Investment Banking Department, Shanghai Municipal Branch, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China

    Summer Intern

    o Identified corporate finance needs based on their credit ratings, and provided potential solutions, and analyzed each specific procedure;
    o Suggested special services to a government-foreign-joint venture company after taking training on OTC market offered by Shanghai Equity Exchange;
    o Collaborated with colleagues on compiling reports on listing, investment analysis, and disclosure procedure;
    o Preparation of pitch books to support client's business development initiatives;
    o Researched and summarized housing estate market rules for projects;
    o Filed negotiations about contracts and collaborations;
    o Filed and organized the applications and contracts for projects from the company, the department, district branch, other financial institutions, certified accounting offices, and law offices;

  • Ontario Clean Water Agency

    Technical Assistant

    Engineering Services Group
    o Authored a report titled "The effect of treated TKN and BOD loadings on energy consumption in extended aeration process of 30 municipal WWTPs";
    o Reviewed and compiled equipment specifications from vendor submitted for the Turbo Blower Assessment using weighted matrix;
    o Compiled the Annual Report for IESO Energy Saving Incentive Program;
    o Drafted the Measurement and Verification Plan for Hydro One Network Inc. on blower retrofit project in Wyoming WPCP;

  • Advanced Photovoltaics & Devices Group, University of Toronto

    Summer Research Student

    o Conducted the degradation experiment using spectrally dependent and thickness dependent tests to associate transmittance with light induced changes in silicon wafers;
    o Performed Origin Program Peak Analysis function to fit convolution peaks of standard bonds to UV-VIS curves of tested samples to look for molecular changes through degradation;
    o Collected data from Lifetime Tester with macro enabled Excel sheet to measure the life time of wafers between specific time interval
    o Learned the mechanism and operation of Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) mechanism

  • Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

    Review Engineering Assistant

    APPROVAL SERVICES - WASTEWATER unit, EAB
    o Issued Approvals (ECA) - 60% in municipal wastewater, 35% in private subsurface disposal system, and 5% in industrial wastewater projects;
    o Prepared engineering assessment following Environmental Legislation and corresponding design guidelines;
    o Engaged applicants and local authorities during the reviewing process and requested supplementary documents for design decisions;
    o Co-authored new standard clauses for bypass and overflow conditions in Approvals, with Senior Approval Engineer Fredrick Lam;
    o Updated standard clauses in Approvals for municipal wastewater treatment plants to implement Policy, tasks such as defining scenarios of bypass and overflow, procedure of reporting and sampling requirements;
    o Presented two 20-min case studies to a group of 15 people during unit meetings, one on sludge management condition of the aquaculture wastewater treatment facility and the other one on design capacity of a large subsurface disposal system;

  • Kerr Street Mission

    Friday After School Program and Meal Prep for a group of 20 kids weekly

Education

  • University of Toronto

    Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc)

    Chemical Engineering
    Thesis on life cycle assessment on lignobioethanol production Undergraduate Thesis Advisor: Bradley Saville, University of Toronto, Toronto 2017 Title of “Carbon footprint for commercial-scale cellulase production from lignocellulosic feedstock” Summer Research Advanced Photovoltaics Devices Group, University of Toronto, Toronto 2014

  • University of Toronto

    Master of Engineering - MEng

    Industrial Engineering
    Courses listed as follows, Nonlinear Programming Financial Engineering Operations Research Linear Programming and Network Flow Supply Chain Management and Logistics

  • Alexander Mackenzie High School

    High School