[Che-student-staff-list] Indiana Soybean Competition - 4 year record for ChE!

[Varma, Arvind]

Dear Colleagues,

I am delighted to inform that for the 4th year in a row, a team including one or more ChE students has won the $20,000 first prize in the Student Innovation Contest<http://www.indianasoybean.com/strategic-programs/new-use-innovation/43-strategic-programs-new-uses/98-new-use-innovation-soybean-student-competition> sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance.

This year ChE graduate student Nicole Devlin and ChE senior Yanssen Tandy, along with ME senior Carmen Valverde-Paniagua, won the first prize for their S3D Innovations team which developed Filasoy, a next generation 3D printing material.  Filasoy replaces petroleum-based plastic with a low-energy, low-temperature, renewable and recyclable filament.  It retains similar properties found in a bioplastic with an added "green" twist - it allows printing without waste.  For details, pl visit:
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2014/Q1/purdue-students-show-how-to-innovate-with-soybeans.html

With best wishes,

Arvind
Arvind Varma
R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor
Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University


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