March 2013 - Che-courtesy-list

Graduate Seminar Announcement - Dr. Alan Lesser
by Mamph, Jennifer A 22 Mar '13

22 Mar '13

Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate seminar series Prof. Alan Lesser University of Massachusetts "Aspects of molecular mobility and topology on the mechanical performance of polymeric glasses" March 26, 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. FRNY G140 Reception at 8:30 a.m. in Henson Atrium Abstract: The use of polymeric materials is widespread in virtually every application within our society today. They are now commonplace engineering materials of choice in many applications including, automotive, aerospace, housing, and medical applications. This is due in large part to the multitude of synthetic routes, molecular architectures, and processing strategies that enable an infinite range of materials with unique properties. In this lecture, we discuss aspects that relate molecular architecture and segmental mobility to engineering performance. We start by highlighting how basic alterations in molecular architecture affect key thermal and mechanical properties of glassy networks. We then discuss how these characteristics relate to nonlinear properties including the yield behavior, the post yield response, and fracture behavior. We illustrate how these properties change during the formation of the glass and how they are altered by process or cure conditions. We then present results that probe segmental mobility during active nonlinear deformation in a model glass. We distinguish between flow in a polymer melt to that of vitreous flow observed in polymer glass subjected to large inelastic deformation. Bio: Dr. Alan Lesser is currently a Full Professor in the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts. His research activities include structure-property relationships in polymers and polymer based composites, nonlinear and fracture behavior of polymer based materials, and processing polymers in supercritical carbon dioxide. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Polymer Engineering and Science Journal and Polymer Composites Journal. He also resides on the Advisory Board for the Journal of Applied Polymer Science. He is a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, has served as the Conference Chair for the Gordon Composites Conference, and has served as Chair of the Polymer Analysis Division, and Failure Analysis and Prevention SIG, for the Society of Plastics Engineers. He has published more than 100 papers in refereed journals and more than 130 in conference proceedings. Dr. Lesser received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1988 and joined the faculty in the PSE Department in 1995 after spending 6 years in industry working as a Research Scientist for Shell Development Company.

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Tornado Drill - Exercise in Forney on Wed, March 27
by Gabriela Nagy 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

Dear Faculty, Staff, Research Fellows, Graduate and Undergraduate Students, On Wednesday, March 27, as part of Indiana's Severe Weather Preparedness Week, the Emergency Preparedness and Planning Department will be coordinating a campus-wide tornado drill. The ChE Safety Committee agreed that this is an excellent opportunity to test our building's 'shelter-in-place' procedures and the response of the building's occupants to simulated severe weather emergency situations. Therefore, it was decided that our School (Forney Biulding) will take part in this voluntary activity. The exercise is scheduled for March 27, when multiple warning systems will be activated at 10 am. The exercise will last until approximately 10:30 am. The systems that will be activated include the All Hazard Sirens, intended to warn those outdoors only, and the text messaging layer of the Purdue Alert notification system. The schedule for this exercise is: 1. At approximately 10:00 AM, the National Weather Service sends a simulated tornado warning to emergency management directors throughout the state. 2. At approximately 10:05 AM, Tippecanoe County Emergency Management Agency (EMA) Director activates the county outdoor all-hazards siren system. 3. At approximately 10:08 AM, Purdue Dispatch Center sends out a Purdue ALERT text message simulating the tornado warning. 4. Departments that are participating in the drill will immediately implement their shelter in place procedures. 5. At approximately 10:25 AM, Purdue Dispatch Center sends out a Purdue ALERT text message simulating “all clear” for the tornado warning. 6. Building Deputies conduct a short Hot Wash; gather lessons learned. 7. At approximately 10:30 AM, the exercise ends. Please revise the standard safety procedure in case of a severe weather emergency situation for Forney building; this is detailed below: - when the 'all hazards' sirens are activated (or you receive the Purdue ALERT text message), stay in the building and follow the signs towards the shelter-in-place location. This is the basement, in the new wing of the building. - To reach the shelter area, use one of the three staircases: in the FRNY atrium, adjacent to the exit that faces Physics, or adjacent to the exit facing Civil Engineering. - Do not use the elevators. - Take your personal belongings if possible, and stay calm. - Assist those who need help, if possible. - Stay in the shelter location until instructed by emergency personnel that it is safe to leave. This is a voluntary activity for the school, but for the exercise to be a success I urge everyone to take part in it. Students who have classes at the time of the exercise should follow their instructor's decision on the matter and their instructions. Please be aware that people from outside the building may come in to shelter in our building when the 'all hazard' sirens are activated; please guide them to the shelter location, if necessary. I would like to remind you that the activated outdoor all-hazards sirens (shelter-in-place) on campus mean 'dangerous circumstances are occurring outside', not only tornado warnings. These conditions could include hazardous chemicals, an active criminal incident, or severe weather. Thank you for your support and cooperation in this matter. If you have any questions or concerns about this activity, please contact me. Sincerely, Gabriela Nagy -- Gabriela Nagy, PhD Industrial Education Director ChE Safety Committee Chair School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room G051 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47 907 Tel: (765) 496-1710; Fax: (765) 494-0805 E-mail: nagyg(a)purdue.edu

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Garage Closure
by Valley, Jeffrey L 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

The main entrance to the Northwestern Avenue Parking Garage (PGNW) will be closed for approximately four hours during the afternoon of Friday, March 22. Contact Information: Susan Black, Assistant Manager of Parking Facilities (765) 494-9493 seblack2(a)purdue.edu https://www.purdue.edu/pfcommunications/construction_notices/pgnw_entrance_…

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FW: TedxPurdueU 2013 - CoE Sponsoring
by Murray, Chris L 21 Mar '13

21 Mar '13

From: Sondgerath, William J Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:45 AM To: 'Ahmed Hassanein'; Anderson, William E; 'Anil Bajaj'; Bahr, David F; Balakrishnan, Venkataramanan; Carmichael, David S; Crawford, Melba M; 'Dale Harris'; 'David Radcliffe'; Deshmukh, Abhijit V; Dietz, Jason Matthew; Engel, Bernard A.; Fentiman, Audeen W; Govindaraju, Rao S; Harris, Michael T; Hastak, Makarand; Jamieson, Leah H.; Kokini, Klod; Percifield, Carolyn A.; Reed-Rhoads, Teri; Shaw, M Suzanne; Shih, Tom I-P.; Sondgerath, William J; Sutherland, John W; Varma, Arvind; Wodicka, George R; Frosch, Robert J Subject: TedxPurdueU 2013 - CoE Sponsoring All, Please share with faculty, staff and students: The College of Engineering is a major sponsor for TEDxPurdueU 2013 which is coming up on April 12th. Tickets are now available for purchase at http://www.tedxpurdueu.com<http://www.tedxpurdueu.com/> and cost $10 for students, $15 for the general public, free for children under 12. TEDxPurdueU t-shirts are also available for purchase at the time of ticket transactions. TEDxPurdueU will be held on April 12th, 2013 at Loeb Playhouse from 1:00p.m.-6:00p.m. Registration for the event opens at 11:30a.m, doors open at 12:30p.m. This year's theme of "Past, Present, Progress" will reflect on the critical times which we currently face and the positive prospects for our future. Speakers include an advocate for women's equality, a veterinary oncologist, a space visionary, and many other innovative thinkers from the Purdue community. To stay up to date about the event and scheduled speakers, you can follow TEDxPurdueU on Twitter at @TEDxPurdueU on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TEDxPurdueU<http://www.facebook.com/TEDxPurdueU>.

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Cleaning Schedule for Your Office
by Farmus, Cristina D 20 Mar '13

20 Mar '13

Good afternoon, In the Work Environment Satisfaction Survey from fall I saw many comments about labs and offices, particularly graduate offices, not being cleaned properly or regularly. I contacted building services and they shared the timing of their detailed cleaning for each floor, please see attached. Each office, including graduate offices, are supposed to be swept (and mopped if needed) weekly. The attached maps highlight when a certain area is scheduled to be cleaned/swept on a regular basis. Please check your office the day after your scheduled cleaning and let me know if you still see problems. This will serve as a tool to identify if there are issues on a specific floor or in the entire building in general. Hopefully, you will notice an improvement in the quality of your office. Labs are included in the document too, but the regular cleaning will not be done if you indicated there is sensitive equipment in your lab. Jeff Valley has a professional large capacity vacuum cleaner that can be checked out if you'd rather do your own cleaning in laboratories. You can email me concerns about cleaning or building maintenance at any time. Regards, Cristina Cristina Farmus Administrative Director Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765 494 0027 cfarmus(a)purdue.edu<mailto:cfarmus@purdue.edu>

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ELEVATORS
by Valley, Jeffrey L 19 Mar '13

19 Mar '13

BE ADVISED - The State Inspector will be in our building to certify our elevators this afternoon so there will be a 15-20 minute interruption in service for each elevator while this is being done.

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Graduate Office will be closed Friday, March 15, 2013
by Bowman, Debra J 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Dear All, The Graduate Office will be closed Friday, March 15, 2013. I will be on vacation. Thanks, Deb

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Reminder - Atom Downtime Starting 8pm tonight.
by Harrington, Michael P 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Please log out of any accounts on Atom before 8pm tonight as it will be taken offline for updates. This would generally include logging off any ECN deployed machine. Atom will be restarted around 9pm - but to be safe I would assume it won't be back online until at least 9:30pm. -Mike Harrington ******************** Mike Harrington Computer Facilities Manager Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765-494-6428 mph(a)purdue.edu

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USNWR rankings
by Murray, Chris L 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Dear Colleagues, The USNWR graduate rankings have just been released - attached are the ChE graduate rankings for 2014 (issued 3-13), and also for comparison those issued last year. We are at rank 13, up 1 from last year, and tied with CMU and UIUC (rank 12 last year) - last year we tied at rank 14, with CMU and Northwestern (rank 17 last year). We have been improving rank by 1 position for the last two years in a row. Congratulations to all for their creative and hard work - it has been great teamwork and the best is yet to come! Arvind Arvind Varma R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Tel: 765-494-4075; Fax: 765-494-0805; Email: avarma(a)purdue.edu<mailto:avarma@purdue.edu> https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/People/ptProfile?id=11068

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Graduate Seminar Announcement - Dr. Konstantinos Konstantopoulos
by Mamph, Jennifer A 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate seminar series Prof. Konstantinos Konstantopoulos Dept. of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering The Johns Hopkins University "Cell Migration in Confined Spaces" March 19, 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. FRNY G140 Reception at 8:30 a.m. in Henson Atrium Abstract: Understanding the mechanisms of cell migration is a fundamental question in cell, developmental and cancer biology. Unraveling key, physiologically relevant motility mechanisms is also crucial for developing technologies that can control, manipulate, promote or stop cell migration in vivo. Much of what we know about the mechanisms of cell migration stems from in vitro studies using two-dimensional (2D) surfaces. Cell locomotion in 2D is driven by cycles of actin protrusion, integrin-mediated adhesion and myosin-dependent contraction. A major pitfall of 2D assays is that they fail to account for the physical confinement that cells encounter within the physiological tissue environment. The seminar will challenge the conventional wisdom regarding cell motility mechanisms, and show that migration through physically constricted spaces does not require *1 integrin-dependent adhesion or myosin contractility. Importantly, confined migration persists even when filamentous actin is disrupted. This seminar will also discuss an alternative mechanism of confined cell migration based on a jet propulsion model. Bio: Received the Diploma of Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Rice University in 1995. From 1995 to 1997 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering at Rice University. He joined the faculty of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in 1997, and promoted to the rank of Professor in 2008. He was elected Chair of the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering in 2008. He is a co-Director of the NCI-funded Johns Hopkins Engineering in Oncology Center (2009-present). He was elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2009 and of the Biomedical Engineering Society in 2012. He serves on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Physiology Cell Physiology (2005-present), as Associate Editor of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering (2009-present), and as Chair of the Bioengineering Technology and Surgical Sciences (BTSS) study section of the National Institutes of Health (2011-present). His research is at the interface of engineering and biology pertinent to cancer metastasis. He has published >100 peer-reviewed articles. http://web1.johnshopkins.edu/kostaslab/

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