Chemical Engineering Graduate Colloquium

Event Date: March 7, 2009

 

GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
School of Chemical Engineering
March 6 – 8, 2009
 
 
Friday, March 6, 2009
 
7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.            Mixer – Holiday Inn Select – Ballroom (Invitation Only)
                                                Welcoming Remarks –  Dr. You Yeon Won
                                                GSO – Hari Nair
 
Saturday, March 7, 2009
 
8:15 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.            Breakfast/Welcoming Remarks – Purdue Memorial Union/Anniversary Drawing Room – 2nd floor .
 
9:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.            Walk to FRNY
 
9:30 A.M. – 9:55 A.M.            Status of School & Strategic Issues – Dr. Arvind Varma –
                                                FRNY G124
 
10:00 A.M. – 10:25 A.M.        First Year Experience – Prof. James Litster – FRNY G124
 
10:30 A.M.. – 11:10 A.M.       Overview of Research and Discovery Park – Prof. John Morgan and
                                                Prof. Kendall Thomson – FRNY G124
 
11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.           Poster Session/Lunch (12:30 p.m.) – FRNY Atrium
 
1:30 P.M. – 2:30 P.M.              Campus Tour by Graduate Students
 
2:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.              Lab Tours:  Catalysis – Vincent Kispersky (Ribeiro)
                                                Bio-related – Julie Kadrmas (Liu)/Sean Werner (Morgan),
                                                Energy – Grayson Ford (Agrawal/Hillhouse),  
                                                Polymers – Kevin Witte (Won)
                                               
3:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.              Individual Discussions with Faculty and Students
 
7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.              Dinner – Various Restaurants –
                                                Meet in Hotel Lobby between 6:45 – 7 p.m.
 
9:30 P.M. -                               Optional Night on Town – Meet in Hotel Lobby at 9:30 P.M.
 
Sunday, March 8, 2009
 
9:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.         Brunch – Holiday Inn Select – Spears Room
 
11:00 A.M. -                           Catch up & Visitors Depart


List of Presenters to the Poster Session
 
1.      Biochemical and Biomolecular Engineering
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Harris
 
 
 
Liu
 
 
Morgan
 
 
 
Morgan
 
 
Yuan
Jung-Sun Lim
 
 
 
Julie Kadrmas
 
 
Nanette Boyle
 
 
 
Sean Werner
 
 
Chongli Yuan
Nanocircuits by the Coating and Deposition of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Nanorods
 
 
Engineering Biomaterials to Direct Bone and Cartilage Regeneration
 
Flux Balance Analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
 
Expression of a Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase in Yeast for Whole-cell Biocatalysis
 
Exploring Epigenetic Phenomena Using Engineering Approach
 
 
 

2.      Polymers and Materials
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Won
 
 
Yuan
 
Dana Gary
 
 
Chongli Yuan
Polymer-Based Gene Delivery for Cancer Treatment
 
Exploring Epigenetic Phenomena using Engineering Approach
 
 
 

 
3.      Nanoscale Science and Engineering
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Agrawal
Hillhouse
 
Corti
Franses
Grayson Ford
Mahaprasad Kar
 
Jiannan Dong
 
Development of Low-Cost Solar Cells from
 Nanocrystal Inks
 
Colloidal Dispersion Stability of Printing Inks and Ink-Like Model Dispersions
 
Hillhouse
Agrawal
 
Ribeiro
 
 
 
 
Ribeiro
 
 
 
Robert McCarthy
Steven Gaik
 
Saurabh Chaugule
Vincent Kispersky
 
 
 
Damion Williams
Vincent Kispersky
 
Development of High-Efficiency Solar Cells from Self-Assembled Nanomaterials
 
Insights into Reaction Mechanisms, Materials Science and Modeling of NOx Storage – Reduction Catalysts for Automotive Lean NOx Emission Abatement
 
Spectroscopic Determination of Descriptors for WGS Catalysts

4.      Surface Science and Reaction Engineering
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Baertsch
 
Baertsch
 
 
Ribeiro
 
 
 
 
Ribeiro
 
 
Varma
 
Varma
Hari Nair
 
Christopher Tan
 
 
Saurabh Chaugule
Vincent Kispersky
 
 
 
Damion Williams
Vincent Kispersky
 
Moiz Diwan
 
Wenbin Hu
Fundamentals of Metal Oxide Catalysis
 
Microreactors for In-Situ Catalyst Characterization
 
Insights into Reaction Mechanisms, Material Science and Modeling of NOx Storage – Reduction Catalysts for Automotive Lean NOx Emission Abatement
 
Spectroscopic Determination of Descriptors for WGS Catalysts
 
Hydrogen Generation for Fuel Cell Applications
 
Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol to High-Value Chemicals
 
 
 

 
5.      Molecular and Nanoscale Modeling
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Corti
Bryce Sturtevant
 
Molecular Modeling of Liquids and Complex Fluids
 
 
 

 
6.      Fluid Mechanics and Interfacial Phenomena
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Basaran
 
 
Beaudoin
Santhosh Ramalingam
 
 
Bich-Van Pham
Dave Balachandran
Multi-Phase Small-Scale Flows with Multi-Physics
 
Characterization of Particle and Surface Interactions for Multiple Systems
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

7.      Product and Process Systems Engineering
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Venkatasubramanian
Reklaitis
 
Venkatsubramanian
 
Pekny
Reklaitis
 
Reklaitis
Venkatasubramanian
Pavan Akkisetty
 
 
Kris Villez
 
Bri-Mathias Hodge
 
 
Intan Hamdan
Ontological Informatics Framework for Pharmaceutical Product Development
 
Fault-Tolerant Control for Complex Systems
 
Multi-Paradigm Modeling for Energy Systems Analysis
 
Real-Time Process Management
 
 
 
 

 
 
8.      Mass Transport and Separations
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Agrawal
 
 
Wankat
 
 
 
Wankat
Rugved Pathare
Vishesh Shah
 
Pradeep Sharma
 
 
 
Anand Venkatesan
 
 
Separation Systems for Low Energy Consumption
 
Hybrid Cycles to Purify Concentrated Feeds Containing a Strongly Adsorbed Impurity with a Nonlinear Isotherm: The PSA-TSA Supercycle
 
Ion Exchange Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Desalination
 
 

9.      Pharmaceutical Engineering     
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Basaran
 
 
Litster
 
 
Litster
Santhosh Ramalingam
 
 
Heather Emady
Jianfeng Li
 
Shaunak Vora
Multi-Phase Small-Scale Flows with Multi-Physics
 
Design and Analysis of Wet Granulation
 
 
Microfluidic Crystallization
 
 
 
Venkatasubramanian
Reklaitis
Pavan Akkisetty
 
Ontological Informatics Framework for Pharmaceutical Product Development

 
 
 
 
 
10. Alternative Energy and Renewable Energy Sources
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Agrawal
Hillhouse
 
Delgass
Grayson Ford
Mahaprasad Kar
 
Dharik Mallapragada
Sara Yohe
Piotr Gawecki
Development of Low-Cost Solar Cells from
 Nanocrystal Inks
 
Environmentally Friendly Novel Routes for Transportation Fuel
 
Hillhouse
Agrawal
 
Varma
 
Varma
 
Robert McCarthy
Steven Gaik
 
Moiz Diwan
 
Wenbin Hu
 
Development of High-Efficiency Solar Cells from Self-Assembled Nanomaterials
 
Hydrogen Generation for Fuel Cell Applications
 
Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol to High-Value Chemicals

 
 
 
11. Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering   
 

Faculty
Presenter
Title
Liu
 
 
Won
Julie Kadrmas
 
 
Dana Gary
Engineering Biomaterials to Direct Bone and Cartilage Regeneration
 
Polymer-Based Gene Delivery for Cancer Treatment