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Outstanding Awards:

Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award: ($500)

The Outstanding Teaching Assistant award recognizes teaching excellence in senior level courses as voted by the senior students. The recipient of the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Award is:

Tyler Pasut

Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship Award: ($300)

The Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship Award recognizes an outstanding sophomore student on the basis of scholarship and in consideration of their accomplishments. The recipient of this year’s Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship Award is:

Alyssa Kohl

Outstanding Sophomore Leadership Award: ($300)

The Outstanding Sophomore Leadership Award recognizes a sophomore student on the basis of their leadership and organizational involvement also taking into consideration technical and academic achievement. The recipient of this year’s Outstanding Leadership Award is:

Christine Yuan

George T. Tsao Award (Worthy Junior): ($300)

The George T. Tsao Award recognizes a worthy junior on the basis of scholarship and in consideration of their accomplishments. The recipients of this year’s George T. Tsao Award are:

Joseph Mayer 

Stephen Craig Award (Outstanding Junior): ($500)

The Stephen Craig Award recognizes an outstanding junior on the basis of scholarship and in consideration of their accomplishments. The recipient of this year’s Stephen Craig Award is:

Elliot McDonald

Centennial Scholarship (Exceptional Junior): (Scholarship Fund)

The Centennial Scholarship, which will help fund the student’s senior year in our School, recognizes an exceptional junior on the basis of scholarship and in consideration of their accomplishments. The recipient of this year’s Centennial Scholarship is:

Jaatani Abdi

Outstanding Junior Leadership Award: ($500)

The Outstanding Junior Leadership Award recognizes a junior student on the basis of their leadership and organizational involvement also taking into consideration technical and academic achievement. The recipients of this year’s Outstanding Junior Leadership Award are:

Calla Tucker

Benjamin Murray

Senior Awards:

Outstanding Senior - John Clarence Lottes Memorial Award: ($500)

The John Clarence Lottes Memorial Award recognizes an outstanding senior student on the basis of scholarship and in consideration of their accomplishments.  The recipient of this year’s Lottes Award is:

Casey Gooden

AIChE Award: ($500)

The AIChE Award is given to a senior student based on his or her service to the department through AIChE. The recipient of this year’s AIChE Award is:

Austin Dichsen

Omega Chi Epsilon Award: ($500)

The Omega Chi Award was established in 1961 to recognize a senior student on the basis on scholarship, leadership and character and was later dedicated to Bruce A Wilson. This recipient of this year’s Omega Chi Epsilon Award is:

Caitlin O’Brien

Marylin Forney Trailblazer Award: ($500)

The Marylin Forney Trailblazer award recognizes an outstanding female student whose impact has helped pave the way for women in the field of engineering. The award is based on contribution and participation in the Women in Engineering Program. Chemical Engineering and leadership & service efforts within these programs throughout their academic journey.  The recipient of this year’s Marilyn Forney Trailblazer Award is:

Mairead Kennedy

Gavin Sinclair Award: ($500)

The Gavin Sinclair award is to recognize an outstanding senior student who has achieved academically while overcoming adversity during their academic journey.  This year’s recipient of the Gavin Sinclair award is:

Devin Capece

Lindsay Anne Williams Award: ($500)

The Lindsay Anne Williams Senior Leadership Award honors a senior student based on service to Purdue, service to the community, character and organizational involvement also taking into consideration technical and academic achievement.

 The recipients of this year’s Lindsay Anne Williams Award are:

Rithika Athreya

Pericles Karras

Undergraduate Research Award: ($500)

The Undergraduate Research Award recognizes outstanding students who have participated in chemical engineering research opportunities throughout their academic journey. The award is based on countless hours spent in the lab, papers presented at conferences, and articles submitted to journals. The recipients of this year’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award are:

Shriya Khandelwal

Shawn Nathan Belongia

Senior Design Projects: 

First Place:

TEAM 20

Shawn Belongia

Devin Capece

Perry Karras

Dominick Maiorano

Eric Rohweder

Mentor:  Siirola

Second Place:

TEAM 23

Ben Busemeyer

Tim Garby

Trevor Neumaier

Nick Sakaleros

Mentor:  Siirola

Third Place:

TEAM 29

Abby Davis

Josie Kirsch

Sydney Nelesen

Lauren Perry

Mentor:  Masuku

Honorable Mentions:

TEAM 15 (Alyssa Altman, Reagan Courtney, Mallory Gagliardi, Sydney Hummel, David Vietti) TEAM 16 (Grant Fiedler, Caitlin O'Brien, Matt Schiavone, Anna Selfridge, Alex Yakisan) TEAM 17 (Sarah Engle, Casey Gooden, Jayden Pearson, Liam Robinson, Stefanie

Surdyka)

Project Title:  "Blue and Green Hydrogen"