Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to inform that for the 4^th year in a row, a team including one or more ChE students has won the $20,000 first prize in the Student Innovation Contest sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance. 

This year ChE graduate student Nicole Devlin and ChE senior Yanssen Tandy, along with ME senior Carmen Valverde-Paniagua, won the first prize for their S3D Innovations team which developed Filasoy, a next generation 3D printing material.  Filasoy replaces petroleum-based plastic with a low-energy, low-temperature, renewable and recyclable filament.  It retains similar properties found in a bioplastic with an added "green" twist - it allows printing without waste.  For details, pl visit:

http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/Q1/purdue-students-show-how-to-innovate-with-soybeans.html

With best wishes,

Arvind

Arvind Varma
R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University