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Seminar cancelled Feb. 21
by Ewing, Virginia G 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

Seminar is cancelled for next week. Hope to reschedule this semester. Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering GRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES Prof. Julie Liu Purdue University "Engineering Cell-Microenvironment Interactions for Stem Cell Differentiation and Tissue Regeneration" February 21, 2012 9:00-10:15 A.M., FRNY G140

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FW: COMMUNICATION: Steam Blows February 16 and 17 at Wade Utility Plant
by Valley, Jeffrey L 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

FYI.................... From: Terry, Rebecca L [mailto:rlterry@purdue.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:14 PM Subject: COMMUNICATION: Steam Blows February 16 and 17 at Wade Utility Plant Communications Announcement Purdue University - Physical Facilities TO: Building Deputies (Please distribute) FR: Physical Facilities DA: Thursday, February 16, 2012 RE: Steam Blows February 16 and 17 at Wade Utility Plant During the course of today and tomorrow, steam blows will be conducted to clean the new Boiler 7 and piping at Wade Utility Plant. The steam blows will consist of burst releases lasting up to 30 minutes and can be extremely noisy, comparable to the sound of a jet engine. Any questions may be directed to Dwayne Rodgers, Project Manager, at 494-6629 or Ed Rafacz, Utilities Engineer, at 494-6971.

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Abstract & Bio for Dr. Eric Shaqfeh, Lester Levi Carter Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
by Heide, Karen Kay 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

Dear All, Below is the Abstract & Bio for Dr. Erick Shaqfeh. 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 GRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES Prof. Eric Shaqfeh Lester Levi Carter Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering Stanford University "Platelet Margination in the Microcirculation... or 'How Capsules Push Particles Around'?" February 7, 2012 9:00-10:15 A.M. FRNY G140 Reception at 10:15 A.M. in Henson Atrium Abstract: It is well known that individual vesicles or liposomes (i.e. fluid enclosed by a lipid bilayer membrane suspended in a second fluid) are characterized by a remarkable dynamics in flow. For vesicles that are "near spheres" this dynamics includes at least 5 different types of orbits in shear flow that are functions of the viscosity ratio between the inner and outer fluid as well as the Capillary number based on the bending modulus. However, this dynamics becomes even more rich as the reduced volume falls below about 0.65 where now there are at least three equilibrium shapes (prolates, discocytes, and stomatocytes) which are linearly stable. It is therefore not surprising that a suspension of vesicles is characterized by fascinating collective behavior as well. I will discuss our recent development of a numerical code (based on Loop subdivision) which allows the Stokes flow simulation of non-dilute suspensions of vesicles and capsules at essentially any value of the reduced volume. We will then use these numerical simulations to examine a very important naturally occurring consequence of the interactions in these suspensions -- hemostasis in the small vessels. Hemostasis relies on naturally occurring blood particles such as platelets being concentrated near the vessel walls. The adhesion of platelets to an injured vessel site is a critical initial stage for the formation of a platelet plug to stop bleeding. Any reduction of hematocrit and/or flow rate can both slow down the margination of platelets toward the vessel wall and in turn hamper the formation of the platelet plug. The resulting coagulopathy can be life-threatening, so understanding this process, which we shall demonstrated is an inherently fluctuation-induced hydrodynamic process, is critical to developing therapies for the mitigation of these coagulopathies. Bio: [cid:image002.png@01CCE257.72016D30] Eric Shaqfeh is the Lester Levi Carter Professor and Department Chair of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He joined Stanford's faculty in 1990 after earning a B.S.E. summa cum laude from Princeton University (1981), and a M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1986) from Stanford University. In 2001 he received a dual appointment and became Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is most recently (as of 2004) a faculty member in the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering at Stanford. Shaqfeh's current research interests include non-Newtonian fluid mechanics (especially in the area of elastic instabilities, and turbulent drag reduction), nonequilibrium polymer statistical dynamics (focusing on single molecules studies of DNA), and suspension mechanics (particularly of fiber suspensions and particles/vesicles in microfluidics). He has authored or co-authored over 170 publications and has been an Associate Editor of the Physics of Fluids since 2006. Shaqfeh has received the APS Francois N. Frenkiel Award 1989, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award 1990, the David and Lucile Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering 1991, the Camile and Henry Dreyfus Teacher--Scholar Award 1994, the W.M. Keck Foundation Engineering Teaching Excellence Award 1994, the 1998 ASEE Curtis W. McGraw Award, and the 2011 Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, he has held a number of professional lectureships, most recently the Merck Distinguished Lectureship, Rutgers (2003), the Corrsin Lectureship, Johns Hopkins (2003) and the Katz Lectureship, CCNY (2004). He was also the Hougen Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin (2004) and the Probstein Lecturer at MIT (2011). Eric has been married to Terhilda Garrido for 28 years, and they have two children, Stefan, 22 and Elena, 18.

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New Employee for CHE business Office
by Madrid, Mary Anne 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

All, I would like to formally announce that Jenny Olinger has accepted the new position as Account Clerk IV for the Chemical Engineering Business Office. Jenny's primary responsibilities will be Travel and Purchasing. Please join me in welcoming Jenny to Chemical Engineering and Business Services. Thank you, MaryAnne Madrid Business Manager School of Chemical Engineering PURDUE UNIVERSITY ph: 765-494-4071 fx: 765-494-4073

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February 2012 School Newsletter
by Farmus, Cristina D 10 Feb '12

10 Feb '12

Below is the February 2012 School newsletter. If you have any items you would like to include in future issues, please send them to me. Faculty and Student Recognition * Assistant Professor Bryan Boudouris, graduate students Coco Abbou Oucherif, Aniruddha Kelkar, and an MBA student from Krannert have qualified to compete as semifinalists in the Green Energy Challenge sponsored by the Department of Energy. Their team is named Power-by-Nano, and more details are at http://prf.org/news/purdue-student-entrepreneurs-enter-department-energy-sp… http://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_e543b8e9-eabd-57d3-8bfc-6fac3c… * Assistant Professor Julie Liu has received a Scientist Development Grant from the American Heart Association. * Graduate Student Rasika Prabhu won the Best Graduate Paper scholarship award from the Rubber Division of the American Chemical Society for her paper titled "Does a Sum of Hyperelastic and Single-Integral Viscoelastic Terms Describe Nonlinear Mechanical Behavior of Elastomers?" Staff Recognition * For the first time ever, our School submitted on time all the Personnel Activity Reports (aka PARs). A big "Thank you" goes to the Business Office for their effort in obtaining all the necessary signatures. Miscellaneous * Performance evaluations for staff are under way. If you are a supervisor, you need to initiate the evaluations through the Performance Review System at https://engineering.purdue.edu/PRS2. For other employees asked to evaluate a staff member, please take the time to complete the survey, the process takes about 5 minutes. * Our School has three faculty positions available; searches are underway for the following: o Maxine Spencer Nichols Chair (endowed position), to be vacated by Professor Delgass when he retires in May 2012 o Process System Engineering (any rank) o Catalysis (Assistant or Associate Professor) Upcoming Events * Hadley Lecture, sponsored by the Administrative Professional Staff Advisory Committee: Susan Bulkeley Butler, alumna, author, former executive, former Purdue trustee. Overview of her book "Become the CEO of You, Inc." 9-11 a.m. STEW, Room 302 * Distinguished Engineer Award, Kristi Anseth presentation and reception - February 24, 3.30 pm, Henson Atrium, Forney Hall * Purdue Engineering Week, February 19-25 * Graduate Colloquium, March 2-4, 2012 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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FW: FRNY Pear Tree Replacements Coming
by Valley, Jeffrey L 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

FYI.............................. From: Staley, Don J Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:23 PM To: 'drowe(a)purdue.edu'; Stroud, Kristi L; 'rwduvall(a)purdue.edu'; Poer, Bruce P.; Cook, Joanna R Cc: Valley, Jeffrey L; Hickman, Juliet C Subject: FRNY Pear Tree Replacements Coming Good morning, I'm writing to let you know the Grounds Department will be removing the large pear trees along the southeast side of FRNY over Spring Break. Matching pear trees had to be removed from the front of ME in 2009 for a foundation waterproofing project. We took that opportunity to replant with evergreen and crabapple trees which will not block the windows as the pears did. We will install the same planting at FRNY this summer in order to restore the symmetry of Purdue Mall. Our arborists manage over 8,000 trees on the West Lafayette campus. We require construction projects to protect existing trees wherever possible and to financially compensate us for those which must be removed. We use those funds to replant hundreds of new trees across campus each year. Because of these and other efforts the National Arbor Day Foundation has awarded Purdue its Tree Campus USA designation. Please let me know if you have any questions and please don't hesitate to direct your building occupants' concerns to me. Thanks, Don Don Staley, ASLA, PLA<http://www.laprofession.org/>, LEED(r) AP<http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CategoryID=19> Senior Landscape Architect Purdue University 401 S Grant St West Lafayette, IN 47907-1694 (765) 494-3424 Fax: (765) 496-1579 Cell: (765) 586-5800

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Congratulations to Drs Korsmeyer and Mikos, ChE Alumni elected to NAE today
by Varma, Arvind 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to inform that two School alumni were elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today. Dr. Richard W. Korsmeyer (MS 1980, PhD 1983) is currently Global Head of Licensing, Worldwide Pharmaceutical Sciences and Senior Research Fellow with Pfizer. He has been a major figure in the development and commercialization of drug delivery systems. Specifically, he is the co-inventor of a method that permits delivery of a full course of the antibiotic azithromycin therapy with a single oral dose, which was developed into the commercial product, Zmax(tm). He has authored 65 publications and 25 patents. He is a member of the Connecticut Nanotech Coordinating Group, member of several journal editorial boards and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). His citation reads: "For contributions to drug delivery formulations and medical devices." Dr. Antonios G. Mikos (MS 1985, PhD 1988) is the Louis Calder Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Rice University. In addition, he is Director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering at Rice University. Dr. Mikos' research focuses on the synthesis, processing, and evaluation of new biomaterials for use as scaffolds for tissue engineering, as carriers for controlled drug delivery, and as non-viral vectors for gene therapy. His work has led to the development of novel orthopaedic, dental, cardiovascular, neurologic, and ophthalmologic biomaterials. An author of over 420 publications and 25 patents, he has been cited more than 28,000 times. Dr. Mikos is the editor-in-chief of Tissue Engineering, the premier journal of the field, and serves on several other journal editorial boards. He is currently President of the North American Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society and has co-authored the premier textbook on biomaterials. His previous recognitions include the Founders Award of the Society for Biomaterials, AIChE's Alpha Chi Sigma Award and the Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award, and ASEE's Meriam/Wiley Distinguished Author Award and the Chemstations ChE Lectureship Award. He received our School's Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award in 2008. His citation reads: "For advances in tissue engineering, regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and drug delivery, including development of biodegradable polymers." Both Drs Korsmeyer and Mikos completed their PhD research under the direction of Professor Nicholas A. Peppas, a distinguished member of our School's faculty during 1976-2002. He is currently Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin. Best, Arvind Arvind Varma R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor Head, School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University

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An interesting article about University teaching...
by Varma, Arvind 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues, I expect that you will enjoy reading the attached article about university teaching, from today's Chronicle of Higher Education... Arvind Varma

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FW: Webinar on Managing Asperger's In & Out of The Classroom
by Schirm, Veronica A 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

I received this last week and thought it was worth passing on. We have at least one undergraduate student in our program who has a formal Asperger's diagnosis. I suspect there are more that I am just not aware of. As staff, faculty, and grad TAs who come into contact with students, this might be helpful information. Veronica Schirm Undergraduate Program Administrator School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Rm 1057A 480 Stadium Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907 PH: (765) 494-0756 FAX: (765) 494-0805 vaschirm(a)purdue.edu From: Tippets, Jared N Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 3:17 PM Subject: Webinar on Managing Asperger's In & Out of The Classroom Colleagues, You are invited to attend a free webinar entitled, "Identifying and Managing Asperger's in the Classroom." This event will be held on Friday, February 10, 2012 from 1 - 2:30 p.m. in Mechanical Engineering Building, room 1009. This webinar is broadcasted by Innovative Educators and is being conducted by Dr. Brian Van Brunt. Here is the description of the webinar from their website: Identifying And Managing Asperger's in the Classroom Let's face it. There are some students we work with in the classroom that present a challenge to faculty. Professors increasingly are asked to assess for suicide, sort out what is disruptive and what is dangerous, as well as handle odd and strange behavior with a sense of grace and equanimity. These are not easy tasks for anyone. This presentation will address the issue of Asperger's, a developmental disorder with which a growing number of college students have been diagnosed. Students can request accommodations in the classroom but often they refuse to talk about their problem or ask for help. Moreover, each student has different experiences with the disorder. Dr. Brian Van Brunt will review the common symptoms of Asperger's disorder and discuss how these most commonly manifest in the classroom setting. Participants will learn referral and management techniques to assist the professor in providing these students assistance while meeting the required legal standard of ADA. Practical tips and advice to prevent stress and burnout that can occur when working with these students will also be presented. This presentation will be unique and practical given Dr. Van Brunt's personal experience both in treating students with Asperger's disorder in therapy as well as having taught for over a decade in various classroom settings. A special thanks to the sponsors of this webinar: * Vice Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs * Student Access, Transition and Success Programs * Center for Instructional Excellence * Office of the Dean of Students * Academic Success Center * Counseling and Psychological Services We hope you can join us! Regards, Jared =================================== Jared N. Tippets, Ph.D. Director of Student Access, Transition and Success Programs Purdue University Engineering Administration Building, Room 212 400 Centennial Mall Drive West Lafayette, IN 47907-2016 Office: 765-494-2451 Fax: 765-496-6752 jtippets(a)purdue.edu<mailto:jtippets@purdue.edu> www.purdue.edu/SATS

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Diversity Presentation - January 26, 9.00-10.15 am in G140
by Farmus, Cristina D 30 Jan '12

30 Jan '12

Good morning, I want to remind you that there is a diversity presentation scheduled tomorrow during the regular seminar timeslot, from 9.00 to 10.15 in FRNY G140. Attendance is required for anyone who did not attend the fall diversity presentation on November 22, 2011. Our goal is to have 100% participation for each category: faculty, staff and graduate students. This seminar will be presented by Alvin Lee, Employee Relations Specialist, Purdue Human Resources. Please bring a pen, there will be an activity to complete for which you may win prizes. This seminar is part of our 2010-2014 Strategic Plan initiatives, with the goal to create an environment where faculty, staff and students are treated with respect and where superior teamwork is achieved. If you have any questions, please let me know. I look forward to seeing all of you there. Cristina Cristina Farmus Administrative Director Chemical Engineering Purdue University 765 494 0027 cfarmus(a)purdue.edu

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