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Grad Office will be closed Monday March 12th and Friday March 16th
by Bowman, Debra J 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

The graduate office will be closed Monday, March 12th and Friday March 16th. I will be taking two vacation days next week. I will respond to emails while on vacation during the evening hours. Thanks, Deb

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March Newsletter
by Farmus, Cristina D 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Student Recognition * Graduate Student Katie Smith received an IBM PhD Fellowship award. Katie is advised by Professor Beaudoin and the announcement from IBM read "This award is highly competitive and recognizes your student as well as the quality of your institution." Staff Recognition * The ChE Business Office received the College of Engineering Account Management Star Award, as nominated by Tonya Yoder, Assistant Director of Financial Affairs in the College of Engineering Miscellaneous: * Professor Yue Wu and his wife Bo are the proud parents of Olivia Wu, born on March 2nd, 2012. Both mom and baby are doing great. Upcoming Events: * March 12-16 - Spring Break, no classes * March 13, 2.00 to 3.00 pm - ChE Staff Meeting, FRNY 3059 * March 30th - Deadline to submit nominations for the ChE Staff Awards (no nominations received yet) * April 14 - Women in Chemical Engineering Symposium * April 14 & 15 - Purdue Spring Fest * April 28 - EV Grand Prix New Employees: * Jennifer Olinger, Account Clerk IV, Business Office, email jolinger(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jolinger@purdue.edu>, phone 496-1094. [cid:image001.jpg@01CCFDE2.4E63A090] Employees leaving: * Jun Wang, Post Doctoral Research Associate in Professor's Ribeiro's group Best 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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Purchasing Training
by Madrid, Mary Anne 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

For those of you interested in training on the purchasing system. __________________________________________________________________________________ Registration Available for 'Open Lab for SRM for Requisitioners' - 03/8/12 Two open labs for Purdue employees who purchase goods and services through SRM are being presented this month. The first "SRM 260-Open Lab for SRM Requisitioners" is scheduled for 3-5 p.m., Tuesday, March 13 in FREH 248, Freehafer's second-floor training room. "SRM 260" repeats 9-11 a.m., Wednesday, March 28 in FREH 104, the first-floor training room in Freehafer. Participants need attend only once. The labs give SRM requisitioners more experience creating the different types of shopping carts available in SRM, as well as hands-on practice. Employees new to the requisitioner role will receive practice in creating carts, and participants more experienced in SRM may bring actual orders (i.e., University Stores, Printing Services, Describe Requirement, BOILERMART) that they find difficult to place. Attendees are encouraged to bring their SRM 250 manual as a resource and for notekeeping. Cindi Stinebaugh, business analyst for Procurement Services, will be present during both labs. Staff planning to attend a lab will ensure a seat in the classroom by following these steps to enroll: 1. Click SRM 260-Open Lab for SRM Requisitioners<https://www.eventreg.purdue.edu/training/CourseListing.asp?master_id=3153&m…>. 2. Select the March 13 or March 28 section, and click "Add to Cart." 3. Click "Checkout." 4. Sign in with Purdue career account and password. 5. Confirm that the registration information that displays is correct and click "Submit." 6. Verify that the section that displays is correct and click "Process Registration" to complete the registration. Please direct questions about this class to a member of the BSTC team at BSTCHelp(a)purdue.edu<mailto:BSTCHelp@purdue.edu>. Thank you, MaryAnne Madrid Business Manager School of Chemical Engineering PURDUE UNIVERSITY ph: 765-494-4071 fx: 765-494-4073

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Out of the Office 3-15 thru 3-30
by Harrington, Michael P 07 Mar '12

07 Mar '12

I will be on vacation from Thursday, March 15th through Friday, March 30th. The student workers will be in most of those days for limited hours and will monitor the queue however please do not expect some tasks to be completed while I am away, they will mainly be addressing 'emergency' issues and simple software installs. Specifically on March 15th and 16th, the last two days of Spring Break, there will be neither myself nor the students here. If you have anything that you know you will want completed before April 1st I'd ask that you please send a request to cheq(a)ecn.purdue.edu as soon as possible so we might work on it before I am gone. A reminder again to not send computer related requests to my personal email - they should all go to the queue where the students can also see them and act on them if needed. If you have never filled out the "ECN Trouble Report" it is a handy way to generate a request to the queue and will supply some info we usually need - it can be found here: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/AboutUs/ContactUs - the link is also located on all Windows XP ECN deployed machines at Start, ECN Help, ECN Trouble Report. Be sure to select Chemical Engineering for your School/Department. Thanks, Mike ******************** Mike Harrington Computer Facilities Manager Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765-494-6428 mph(a)purdue.edu

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REMINDER: Truth & Beauty Seminar, Prof. Agrawal, March 7-G124
by Ahmad Al-Kukhun 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

Dear all, Just a reminder that we will have the first Truth & Beauty Seminar for this semester *tomorrow* - *Wednesday March 7, 2012* starting at *5:30 pm* in *FRNY G124*. We will have Prof. Rakesh Agrawal with the talk "Chemical Engineering in a Solar Energy Driven Sustainable Future". Cheers! Ahmad On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Ahmad Al-Kukhun <kukhun(a)purdue.edu> wrote: > Dear all, > > The Truth & Beauty Seminar series will kick-off its activities on *Wednesday > March 7, 2012* starting at *5:30 pm* in *FRNY G124*. Our first seminar > speaker will be Prof. Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished > Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prof. Agrawal will kindly share with > us his vision of a future where the basic human needs of food, chemicals, > heat, electricity and transportation will generally be met by solar energy. > > The talk is titled "Chemical Engineering in a Solar Energy Driven > Sustainable Future". Please find the talk abstract attached. > > I hope to see you all next Wednesday. > > Cheers! > Ahmad > > P.S. - As usual, refreshments will be served. >

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Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering
by Varma, Arvind 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues, I am writing to inform that Jay (BSChE '74) and Cindy Ihlenfeld have demonstrated tremendous generosity in endowing the School’s Headship - their gift will benefit the School in perpetuity. To name the headship, Jay and Cindy Ihlenfeld have signed an agreement to contribute $1.5 million over a three-year period, while the College of Engineering will provide $500,000 in matching funds. When matured, the total $2 million gift will provide approximately $100,000 annually “to be used for the benefit of the School of Chemical Engineering, as determined by the Head of the School with the approval of the Dean of the College of Engineering.” In collaboration with UDO and the Dean’s office, we are trying to determine the most appropriate way to honor Jay and Cindy on campus for their gift. I will inform you when the plans are certain. As you are aware, Jay has had an outstanding career with 3M, including service as the company’s CTO for many years before assuming his current position as Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific about four years ago. He received both the OChE and DEA awards in 2001. My first message with the new title was to Jay and Cindy – this is the second message. Best, 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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Seminar - Dr. Michael Bevan from Johns Hopkins University on Tuesday, March 6, 2012
by Heide, Karen Kay 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

Dear All, The Abstract & Bio are below for Dr. Bevan's seminar on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 at 9:00 A.M. Karen Mrs. Karen Heide, Secretary School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette IN 47907-2100 765-494-4050 765-494-0805 (Fax) Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Dr. Michael A. Bevan Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland "Colloidal Interactions, Dynamics, and Assembly on Energy Landscapes" March 6, 2012 9:00-10:15 a.m. FRNY G140 Reception at 10:15 a.m. in Henson Atrium Abstract: The ability of nano- and micro- scale components to autonomously and reversibly assemble into ordered configurations on surfaces is often suggested as a scalable manufacturing process capable of producing meta-materials with exotic electromagnetic properties (e.g. photonic band gap, negative refraction) that could enable numerous emerging technologies (e.g. optical computing, sub-diffraction limit imaging, invisibility cloaking). However, the inability to produce such ordered materials in a robust manner and with a sufficiently low defect density has limited the development of the science and applications of such materials. As a result, there is strong interest in understanding how thermal motion, particle interactions, patterned surfaces, and external fields can be optimally coupled to robustly control the assembly of nano- and micro- scale components into ordered configurations. We approach this problem by directly relating equilibrium and dynamic colloidal microstructures to kT-scale energy landscapes mediated by colloidal forces, physically and chemically patterned surfaces, and gravitational and electric fields. 3D colloidal trajectories are measured in real-space and real-time with nanometer resolution using an integrated suite of evanescent wave, video, and confocal microscopy methods. Equilibrium structures are connected to energy landscapes via statistical mechanical models. The dynamic evolution of initially disordered colloidal fluid configurations into colloidal crystals in the presence of tunable interactions (polymer depletion, electric fields) is modeled using a novel approach based on fitting the Smoluchowski equation to experimental microscopy and computer simulated assembly trajectories. This approach is based on the use of order parameters that capture important microstructural features of crystallization processes and rigorously quantify both statistical mechanical (free energy) and fluid mechanical (hydrodynamic) contributions. With the ability to measure and tune kT-scale colloidal interactions and quantitatively model how such interactions are connected to dynamically changing microstructures, we demonstrate the real-time control of the assembly, disassembly, and repair of colloidal crystals using both open loop and closed loop control to produce perfect single colloidal crystals. Bio: Michael A. Bevan is an associate professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1999. After post-doctoral appointments at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he joined Texas A&M University in 2002 and Johns Hopkins University in 2008. Bevan's research investigates interactions, dynamics, and structure in interfacial colloidal systems. Bevan is a recipient of a CAREER award and a PECASE from the National Science Foundation.

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Severe Weather Today - March 2
by Davis, Linda S 02 Mar '12

02 Mar '12

We are forecast to have severe weather in West Lafayette this afternoon, including potential tornadoes. If the emergency alert siren is activated (external siren), please seek shelter in the basement of the new wing of Forney. Emergency alerts will also come out via email and as text messages (if you have signed up for Purdue emergency alerts). Please alert people in your area who may not have heard the siren. Tornadoes are real threats that we must respond to. Thank you! Linda Linda S. Davis Industrial Education Director Chair, ChE Safety Committee (https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/AboutUs/Safety.html) School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University lsdavis(a)purdue.edu<mailto:lsdavis@purdue.edu> (765)496-1710

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Assessment of leadership skills - response needed
by Farmus, Cristina D 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Good morning, I am in the process of assessing my leadership skills with the goal to identify strengths and areas where I could improve to serve the Chemical Engineering School better. For this purpose, I created a one page survey and I invite you to follow the link below and rate me on the 18 traits I consider important for a leader. If you cannot rate me on one characteristic, please choose N/A. The survey is entirely anonymous, but the more people take it the more beneficial it will to me be for a comprehensive feedback. The results will not affect my performance evaluation conducted by my supervisor. The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and will be available until March 15, 2012. No reminder will be sent out. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NWCCKJW Thank you! Cristina Cristina Farmus Administrative Director Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765 494 0027 cfarmus(a)purdue.edu<mailto:cfarmus@purdue.edu>

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Truth & Beauty Seminar, Prof. Agrawal, March 7-G124
by Ahmad Al-Kukhun 29 Feb '12

29 Feb '12

Dear all, The Truth & Beauty Seminar series will kick-off its activities on *Wednesday March 7, 2012* starting at *5:30 pm* in *FRNY G124*. Our first seminar speaker will be Prof. Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering. Prof. Agrawal will kindly share with us his vision of a future where the basic human needs of food, chemicals, heat, electricity and transportation will generally be met by solar energy. The talk is titled "Chemical Engineering in a Solar Energy Driven Sustainable Future". Please find the talk abstract attached. I hope to see you all next Wednesday. Cheers! Ahmad P.S. - As usual, refreshments will be served.

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