Centennial Seminar Announcement - August 30, 2011
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series - Centennial Seminar Dr. Deborah L. Grubbe Owner Operations & Safety Solutions, LLC "Entrepreneurship Lessons Learned from Large Organizations" August 30, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 Abstract: Using her experience base of 30+ years in two multinational corporations, alumna Deborah Grubbe will share her thoughts, ideas and examples on entrepreneurship. Ms. Grubbe will focus on how the lessons learned from the corporate environment have enabled her to startup, to grow, and to manage her successful consultancy. Bio: Deborah Grubbe is owner and principal of Operations and Safety Solutions, LLC, a consultancy that specializes in safety and operations troubleshooting and support. Deborah is the former Vice President of Group Safety for BP plc, which had its two safest years ever during her tenure. She was trained in the characteristics of safe operations during her 27 year career at DuPont, where she held corporate director positions in engineering, operations and safety. Deborah is a member of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, and served as a consultant on safety culture to the Columbia Shuttle Accident Investigation Board. Deborah currently serves on the Purdue University College of Engineering Dean's Advisory Council, and is Co Chair of the Purdue University President's Diversity Committee. .She is a member of the closure committee for the Demilitarization of the US Chemical Weapons Stockpile, and is a trustee of the National Safety Council. She is Chair of the Institute for Sustainability, and is a retired Board Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. Deborah obtained a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with Highest Distinction from Purdue University, and received a Winston Churchill Fellowship to study chemical engineering at Cambridge University in England. A native of Chicago, Illinois, she received the Purdue Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award in 2002, and, in that same year, was named "Engineer of the Year" in the State of Delaware. In 2010, Deborah received an Honorary PhD in Engineering from Purdue University.
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series Dr. Matthew Neurock Departments of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry University of Virginia, Charlottesville "Engineering Molecular Transformations over Supported Catalysts for Sustainable Energy Conversion" September 6, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 Abstract: Future strategies for energy production will undoubtedly require processes and materials that can efficiently convert sustainable resources into fuels and chemicals. While nature's enzymes elegantly integrate highly active centers together with adaptive nanoscale environments in order to exquisitely control the catalytic transformation of molecules to specific products, they are difficult to incorporate into large scale industrial processes and limited in terms of their stability. The design of more robust heterogeneous catalytic materials that can mimic enzyme behavior, however, has been hindered by our limited understanding of how such transformations proceed over inorganic materials. The tremendous advances in ab initio theoretical methods along with high performance computing that have occurred over the past two decades provide unprecedented ability to track these molecular transformations and how they proceed at specific sites and within particular environments. This information together with the unique abilities to follow such transformations spectroscopically is enabling the design of unique atomic surface ensembles and nanoscale reaction environment that can efficiently catalyze specific molecular transformations. This talk presents the advances that have occurred within chemistry and chemical engineering that have enabled this evolution of molecular engineering and discuss its applications to energy conversion strategies as well as chemical syntheses. More specifically, we will discuss the application to selective oxidation and hydrogenation over supported metals for biomass conversion as well as zeolite catalyzed C-C bond formation reactions. Bio: Matt Neurock is the Alice M. and Guy A. Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Virginia. He joined the faculty in Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 1995 after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and working as a postdoctoral Fellow at the Eindhoven University of Technology and at the DuPont Corporate Catalysis Center. He has received various awards for his work in computational catalysis and molecular reaction engineering including the 2009 Visiting Professor Southampton University, 2009 Richard S. H. Mah Lecturer at Northwestern University, 2007 R.H. Wilhelm Award in Chemical Reaction Engineering, 2007 Robert A. Moore Award, 2007 Distinguished Visiting Professor of University of Montpellier, 2005 Paul H. Emmett Award in Fundamental Catalysis from the North American Catalysis Society, and 2006 Johansen-Crosby Lecturer at Michigan State University. He has also been the recipient of an NSF Career Development Award, a DuPont Young Faculty Award and Ford Young Faculty Award. He has co-authored over 195 papers, two patents and a book titled: Molecular Heterogeneous Catalysis: A Conceptual and Computational Approach. He is currently an editor for the Journal of Catalysis and serves on the editorial board for Applied Catalysis A: General, Electrocatalysis, and the international advisory board, ChemCatChem.
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series - Centennial Seminar Mr. Norman L. Gilsdorf President Honeywell Process Solutions "Have Chemical Engineering Degree - Will Travel" September 27, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 ABSTRACT: I firmly believe that having a degree in Chemical Engineering not only provides you with skills that are easily transferable to both technical and business careers, plus providing plenty of variety, exciting challenges, real responsibility and the potential to help in creating a sustainable planet; but it also opens up the world to you. This degree sent me to places around the globe, gave me the opportunity to learn new languages and helped me understand different cultures while interacting with business and government leaders in over 100 countries. After over 30 years in business, what excites me every day is the thought that not only can I make a real difference around me, but I can do so on every continent. BIO: Norman L. Gilsdorf is President of Honeywell Process Solutions. Previously he was Vice President/General Manager of the Honeywell Process Solutions business for Europe, Middle East and Africa. At UOP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., Gilsdorf was the senior vice president and general manager of the Process Technology and Equipment business, which served the refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries. Before that, he was responsible for UOP's Catalysts, Adsorbents and Specialties business unit, and prior to that held various technical services, research and development, business development and marketing and sales roles. He joined UOP in 1977. Gilsdorf has considerable global business experience. In addition to his role leading the Process Solutions business in EMEA, Gilsdorf spent five years working for UOP in the United Kingdom in various roles, where he served as director of sales and services across Europe, Middle East, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), India and Africa for the petrochemical industries. He also spent seven years in Moscow as director of sales and services for the CIS region, where he and his team helped launch UOP into Russia in the1990s. Gilsdorf has a chemical engineering degree from Purdue University and an MBA in international business and finance from Northwestern University. He is based in the Bracknell office in the United Kingdom and resides in London. He is married with one daughter and enjoys golf and family life.
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series - Centennial Seminar Mr. Norman L. Gilsdorf President Honeywell Process Solutions "Have Chemical Engineering Degree - Will Travel" September 27, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 ABSTRACT: I firmly believe that having a degree in Chemical Engineering not only provides you with skills that are easily transferable to both technical and business careers, plus providing plenty of variety, exciting challenges, real responsibility and the potential to help in creating a sustainable planet; but it also opens up the world to you. This degree sent me to places around the globe, gave me the opportunity to learn new languages and helped me understand different cultures while interacting with business and government leaders in over 100 countries. After over 30 years in business, what excites me every day is the thought that not only can I make a real difference around me, but I can do so on every continent. BIO: Norman L. Gilsdorf is President of Honeywell Process Solutions. Previously he was Vice President/General Manager of the Honeywell Process Solutions business for Europe, Middle East and Africa. At UOP, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc., Gilsdorf was the senior vice president and general manager of the Process Technology and Equipment business, which served the refining, petrochemical and gas processing industries. Before that, he was responsible for UOP's Catalysts, Adsorbents and Specialties business unit, and prior to that held various technical services, research and development, business development and marketing and sales roles. He joined UOP in 1977. Gilsdorf has considerable global business experience. In addition to his role leading the Process Solutions business in EMEA, Gilsdorf spent five years working for UOP in the United Kingdom in various roles, where he served as director of sales and services across Europe, Middle East, Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), India and Africa for the petrochemical industries. He also spent seven years in Moscow as director of sales and services for the CIS region, where he and his team helped launch UOP into Russia in the1990s. Gilsdorf has a chemical engineering degree from Purdue University and an MBA in international business and finance from Northwestern University. He is based in the Bracknell office in the United Kingdom and resides in London. He is married with one daughter and enjoys golf and family life.
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series - Centennial Seminar Ms. Emily Liggett (BS 1977) CEO Nova Torque, LLC "ChE Entrepreneurship: Building on a Technical Foundation" October 13, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 ABSTRACT: Entrepreneurship is a fascinating career for the strong of heart. Starting a new technology-based company builds on a technical foundation - but what else is involved? Emily will discuss her views of what high tech entrepreneurship is all about, venture capital and fundraising, her successes and failures, lessons, recommendations and possible next steps if you'd like to explore this option. BIO: Emily started a traditional ChE career path after receiving her BS ChE from Purdue as a DuPont process engineer at the Chambers Work (NJ) VITON fluoroelastomer plant. She had several assignments at DuPont before going back to graduate school for an MSMSE and MBA at Stanford and then joined material science company Raychem. Many years later, she is the CEO of a venture-funded cleantech start-up developing high efficiency electric motors based on ferrite permanent magnets. Emily has worked in Japan, Belgium and Australia, is married to her Purdue sweetheart and they have four lively children. She also enjoys serving on public (technology) company boards and the elder board of her church.
Purdue University School of Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series - GSO Seminar Dr. Alyssa Panitch Associate Department Head and Professor of Biomedical Engineering Purdue University "Tissue Healing and Regeneration: From Invention to Translation" Tuesday, November 1, 2011 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. FRNY G140 ABSTRACT: Using biology as a template for designing engineered analogues, we have developed two classes of molecular therapeutics coined peptidoglycans. The first class of molecules, called collagen-binding peptidoglycans, mimic many of the key functions of native small leucine-rich proteoglycans such as decorin. Proteoglycans are key ingredients for proper function and organization of collagenous tissues - the most abundant of thebody. The peptidoglycan design simplifies the native molecules to a polysaccharide chain with covalently attached collagen-binding peptides, but has the advantage of design control and the ability to make synthetically in large quantities. We have tailored the peptidoglycans for applications in dermal healing and inhibition of intimal hyperplasia following balloon angioplasty. The second class of peptidoglycans comprises mimics of the proteoglycan aggrecan. These mimics were designed based on the umet medical need of a treatment for osteoarthritis. The following design constraints were adapted: the aggrecan mimic must be resistant to proteolysis, easy to synthesis and must protect the native extracellular matrix from further degradation. Through out development of these technologies, the laboratory keeps a keen focus on both answering basic science and engineering questions and driving the technological solutions toward the market. This talk will focus both on research and technology transfer.
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Ewing, Virginia G -
Yater-Henke, Katherine D