Faculty Recognition
Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine Spencer Nichols
Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the AIChE.
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/HomepageFeatures/delgass-elected-aiche-fellow
Graduate Student Recognition
2013 Magoon Award
• Nathan B. Davis
• Laura J. Hirshfield
• Daniel Pohlman
2013 Outstanding Service and Scholarship Award:
• Aniruddha Kelkar
2013 CETA (Committee Education of Teaching Assistants) Award:
• Emre Gencer
GPRI Fellowship
• Emre Gencer
ChE Faculty Lecture Award for 2012:
Julie Renner, given on the basis of academic accomplishments during graduate work. The Seminar for this award has been scheduled for April 23rd at 9 a.m. in G140
2012 Research Publication Award of the School of Chemical Engineering, selected based on citation counts obtained from the Web of Science:
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Ford, Grayson M., Guo, Qijie, Agrawal, Rakesh , Hillhouse, Hugh W., Earth
Abundant Element Cu2Zn(Sn1-xGex)S-4 Nanocrystals for Tunable Band Gap Solar Cells: 6.8% Efficient Device Fabrication, CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 23 (10), 2626-2629, (2011), 10.1021/cm2002836
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Young, Jamey D., Shastri, Avantika A. , Stephanopoulos, Gregory , Morgan, John A., Mapping photoautotrophic metabolism with isotopically nonstationary
C-13 flux analysis, METABOLIC ENGINEERING, 13 (6), 656-665 (2011) 10.1016/j.ymben.2011.08.002
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Gary, Dana J., Lee, Hoyoung , Sharma, Rahul , Lee, Jae-Sung , Kim, Youngwook , Cui,
Zheng Yun , Jia, Di , Bowman, Valorie D. , Chipman, Paul R. , Wan, Lei , Zou, Yi Mao, Guangzhao , Park, Keunchil , Herbert, Brittney-Shea , Konieczny, Stephen F. , Won, You-Yeon, Influence of Nano-Carrier Architecture on in Vitro siRNA Delivery Performance
and in Vivo Biodistribution: Polyplexes vs Micelleplexes, ACS NANO, 5 (5), 3493-3505 (2011), 10.1021/nn102540y
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Lee, Wen-Sheng, Zhang, Rong , Akatay, M. Cem , Baertsch, Chelsey D. , Stach,
Eric A. , Ribeiro, Fabio H. , Delgass, W. Nicholas, Differences in Catalytic Sites for CO Oxidation and Propylene Epoxidation on Au Nanoparticles, ACS CATALYSIS, 1(10), 1327-1330, 10.1021/cs200373f
Staff Recognition
– The deadline for the 2013 ChE Staff Excellence Award is March 29. Please take the time to send in your nominations as none have been received to date. Let me know if you
need a copy of the rules or the forms.
Miscellaneous - US News & World Report published their annual rankings of
graduate programs on March 12, 2013. Eight of the College of Engineering disciplines ranked in the top 10, up from five last year. Once again, Purdue’s engineering disciplines all ranked in the top 25. ChE is ranked #13, up from #14 last year.
Ranking Summary:
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Unit |
2014 Ranking (Published March, 2013) |
2013 Ranking (Published March, 2012) |
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College |
#8 |
#10 tied with Cornell |
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ABE |
#1 |
#1 |
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AAE |
#6 |
#6 |
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CE |
#6 |
#6 tied with MIT |
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ME |
#8 |
#9 tied with Cornell |
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NE |
#8 tied with Penn State |
#11 tied with Oregon State |
|
CmpE |
#10 |
#11 |
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EE |
#10 |
#10 tied with Princeton |
|
IE |
#10 |
#15 |
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ChE |
#13 tied with Carnegie Mellon & U Illinois |
#14 tied with Carnegie Mellon & Northwestern |
|
MSE |
#17 tied with U Minnesota and U Wisconsin-Madison |
#14 tied with Carnegie Mellon |
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EEE |
#17 tied with Duke, Rice, U Wisconsin-Madison & Yale |
#19 tied with Penn State & U Minnesota |
|
BME |
#23 tied with Harvard, U Minnesota &
U Virginia |
#23 tied with U Minnesota, U Virginia, U Wisconsin-Madison |
Upcoming Events
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Graduate Students Conversation with the Head –
April 3, 2013, 12.00 to 1.00 pm in FRNY 3059
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Women in ChE Seminar – April 10, 2013
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Fundamentals of Engineering Exam – April 10, 2013
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Kelly Lectures – April 16, 17, 2013
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Senior Banquet
– April 25, 2013, PMU, West Faculty Lounge
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EV Grand Prix – April 27, 2013
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Faculty retreat – May 6, 2013
Please send me information suitable for inclusion in future newsletters.
Regards,
Cristina
Cristina Farmus
Administrative Director
Chemical Engineering
Purdue University
765 494 0027