Graduate Degrees
May 2004
M.S.
Sebnem Erdamar
Thesis Title: Mesoporous Silica Film Growth from Solution: Formulation, Stability, and Pore Orientation Control
Advisor(s): Hillhouse
Undergraduate Institution: Middle East Technical University
Ph.D.
Ritwik Bhatia
Thesis Title: A Meso-scale Description of the Dynamics of Glass Forming Material
Advisor(s): Caruthers
Undergraduate Institution: University of Roorke
Position upon leaving Purdue: Sr Research Scientist, Cambridge Nano Tech, Boston, MA
August 2004
M.S.
Eric Alan Sherer
Thesis Title: Population Balance Modeling of Leukemia Chemotherapy
Advisor(s): Doraiswami Ramkrishna/Robert Hannemann
Undergraduate Institution: California Institute of Technology
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continued for PhD, Purdue University
Patrick T. McGough
Thesis Title: Surfactant Effects in Jet Breakup
Advisor(s): Osman Basaran
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Process Engineer, Eli Lilly & Co.
Ta-Chen Wei
Thesis Title: Ion Transport within ETS-10 Investigated by Impedance Spectroscopy
Advisor(s): Hugh Hillhouse
Undergraduate Institution: National Taiwan University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continued for PhD, Purdue University
Tze Lee Phang
Thesis Title: Dynamic Adsorption and Surface Tension of Aqueous Dilauroylphosphatidylcholine and Bovine Serum Albumin
Advisor(s): Elias Franses
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continued for PhD, Purdue University
Ph.D.
David Brian Henthorn
Thesis Title: Simulation of the Formation of Densely Crosslinked Polymeric Networks for use as Biomaterials
Advisor(s): Nicholas Peppas/Kinam Park/Kendall Thomson
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla
Davis H. Wells, Jr.
Thesis Title: Density Functional Theory Investigation Into The Expoxidation of Propylene Over TS-1 Catalysts
Advisor(s): Nicholas Delgass
Undergraduate Institution: Ohio State University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoc, Imperial College
Kimberly Hayden Henthorn
Thesis Title: Measurement and Prediction of Particle Entrainment and Conveying: Effect of Particle Characteristics, Mass Loading and Reynolds Number
Advisor(s): Jennifer Sinclair Curtis/Kinam Park
Undergraduate Institution: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Position upon leaving Purdue: Assistant Professor, Chemical & Biological Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla
Kunn Hadinoto
Thesis: Experimental Investigation and CFD Modeling of Singapore Interstitial Fluid Effect in Fluid-Particle Flow with Particle-Particle Collisions
Advisor(s): Jennifer Sinclair Curtis
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Scientist, National Lab of Singapore
Rajan Agrawal
Thesis: Self-Assembled Thin-Films of Gold Nanoparticles for the Fabrication of Electronic Devices
Advisor(s): Robert Andres
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology/Bombay
Tom Tao Huang
Thesis Title: Engineering and Modeling of Microfluidic Flow using Press-Fit Microdevices
Advisor(s): George Tsao/Michael Ladisch
Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota/Minneapolis
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Associate, Purdue University - LORRE
Vijayanand Subramanian
Thesis Title: A Computational Framework for Studying Decentralized Supply Chain Dynamics
Advisor(s): Joseph Pekny/Gintaras Reklaitis
Undergraduate Institution: Banaras Hindu University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoc, Purdue University/Discovery Park and Procter and Gamble
Ying-Chih Liao
Thesis Title: Adsorption Dynamics and Fluid Mechanics of Surfactant Solutions
Advisor(s): Osman Basaran/Elias Franses
Undergraduate Institution: National Taiwan University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoc, University of Minnesota
December 2004
M.S.
Daniel Siderius
Thesis Title:The Entropic Force Between a Colloidal Particle and a Hard Wall: Extension of Scaled Particle Theory to Inhomogeneous Fluids
Advisor(s): David Corti
Undergraduate Institution: Michigan Technological University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continued for PhD, Purdue University
Ho Joon Lee
Thesis Title:Separation of Lactic Acid from Glucosein Fermentation Broth using Four-Zone Simulated Moving Bed Chromatography
Advisor(s): Linda Wang
Undergraduate Institution: Inha University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Graduate student, Clemson University
Jason Harper
Thesis Title: Direct Electrochemistry of Human NADPH-Cytochrome P450 Reductase
Advisor(s): Hugh Hillhouse/John Morgan
Undergraduate Institution: New Mexico Institute of Mining
Position upon leaving Purdue: Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories
Leaelaf Mengistu Hailemariam
Thesis Title: Growth of Bubbles in Viscoelastic Media: A Mathematical Model
Advisor(s): Martin Okos/Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: Addis Ababa University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continued for PhD, Purdue University
Thukaram Katare
Thesis Title: Computer-Aided Industrial Polymerization Reactor Design
Advisor(s): James Caruthers/Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: Madurai Kamaraj University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Data Modeler, Vsoft
Ph.D.
June Young Jung
Thesis Title: Safety Stock Management of Multistage Supply Chains under Production Capacity Constraints
Advisor(s): Joseph Pekny/Gintaras Reklaitis
Undergraduate Institution: Yonsei University
Position upon leaving Purdue: R & D Engineer, GS-CALTEX
Michael Laskinski
Thesis Title: Investigation of Particle Clustering in Discrete Element Method Simulations
Advisor(s): Joseph Pekny/Jennifer Sinclair Curtis
Undergraduate Institution: University of California/Berkeley
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoc, Purdue University/Discovery Park/E-Enterprise Center
Xiaotao Wan
Thesis Title: Simulation-based Optimization with Surrogate Models
Advisor(s): Joseph Pekny/Gintaras Reklaitis
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University