Recent ChE graduates Rebekah Scheuerle and Leon Dean were featured by the university as some of the big thinkers and doers of the class of 2013
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Big Thinkers and Doers
Recent ChE graduates Rebekah Scheuerle and Leon Dean were featured by the university as some of the big thinkers and doers of the class of 2013
Top Plant Design Presenters Announced
Industry judges from Ineos Olefins & Polymers USA (INEOS) and FLUOR recently selected top presenting teams for the spring senior plant design course.
The competition, part of the Process Design and Operations course known as plant design, had 27 teams presenting their own ethylene manufacturing process design with a full economic analysis. Teams … Read the rest »
Allen to Lead $1.6M Program to Retain Engineering Students
Dave Allen will lead a new education program funded by The National Science Foundation, Intel and GE to engage engineering students in calculus
Graduate Student Yongjin Lee Receives Electrochemical Society Fellowship
Graduate student Yongjin Lee has received a Joseph W. Richards Summer Fellowship from The Electrochemical Society (ECS). Lee is one of only five researchers selected worldwide for this prestigious award.
Lee works in the area of renewable energy technologies under Professor Gyeong Hwang. He develops and utilizes computational tools to test and identify high-performance … Read the rest »
Graduate Student Jennifer Knipe Receives $15,000 Scholarship
Graduate student Jennifer Knipe has been awarded a Philanthropic Education Organization (P.E.O.) Scholar Award, a $15,000 merit-based award for women from the United States and Canada pursuing doctoral degrees.
Recipients are considered to have the potential to make significant contributions to their field, and were chosen based on research descriptions, faculty recommendations, past awards … Read the rest »
McKetta Honored At AIChE Spring Meeting
Numerous academic and industry members of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) gathered Monday evening at the Spring Meeting in San Antonio, Texas to honor the lifelong achievements and contributions of Professor John J. McKetta Jr., whose career has touched the lives of thousands of engineers.
McKetta served as AIChE president in 1962, is … Read the rest »
Graduate Student Seminar Series Top Presenters
The department is pleased to announce top presenters for this year’s Graduate Student Seminar Series, as voted by attending first-year and third-year Ph.D. students:
Top Presenter
Jackson Stolle (Korgel Lab)
Photonic Curing of CuInSe2 Nanocrystals for Inexpensive Solar Cells
Jackson’s research uses semiconductor nanocrystal “solar inks” and low-temperature processing to fabricate inexpensive, highly-efficient … Read the rest »
McKetta’s Picnic Provides Springtime Fun
The AIChE student chapter hosted it’s favorite event of the semester Saturday, April 13-McKetta’s Picnic. The traditional biannual gathering was held at Eastwood’s Park where students met for a fun time.
There was ample delicious food, including fajitas and veggie burgers grilled by super-chefs Brian O’Connor, AIChE vice-president-external, and Matt Ferris, AIChE president. Guacamole made … Read the rest »
Chelikowsky and Ganesan Win Grand Challenge Awards
Chemical engineering Professors Jim Chelikowsky and Venkat Ganesan have each received a Moncrief Grand Challenge Award to support their research addressing some of society’s biggest challenges in computational engineering and science.
The awards, funded by the private donations of oilman and philanthropist W. A. “Tex” Moncrief of Fort Worth and an anonymous donor, fund research … Read the rest »
Undergraduate Sai Gourisankar Named Goldwater Scholar
Sophomore Sai Gourisankar was recently awarded a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a prestigious undergraduate award that encourages outstanding students to pursue careers and advanced degrees in engineering, mathematics and natural sciences.
Gourisankar was one of 271 recipients selected on academic merit from more than 1,100 applicants nationwide. The one-and two-year scholarships are awarded annually … Read the rest »