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05/02/08
Student Design Competition

Student Design Project photo Held at the HUB on May 1, 2008. Chemical engineering students' work awarded at the Student Design Competition on May 1st.

Download the P D F (932 K.B.) of the Chemical Engineering student award winners.

04/09/08
Seong Kim Research Group

Sandia National Laboratories, SUMMiTTM Technologies, www.mems.sandia.gov Seong Kim's Research Group findings about MEMS is featured on The Nature Web Site.

View the story Vapour may solve lubrication problem in tiny devices on The Nature News Web Site.

04/04/08
2008 Outstanding Engineering Alumni

Photo of the chemical engineering Outstanding Engineering Alumni Ron Pingel. Ron Pingel is Chemical Engineering's 2008 recipient of the Outstanding Engineering Alumni Award.

View more about Ron Pingel's profile and this award from The College of Engineering.

03/17/08
Aaron Fleishman receives $10,000 award

Chemical Engineering undergraduate Aaron Fleishman received a $10,000 award from the ideablob.com contest that is sponsored by Advanta. The award is recognition for a project focused on developing a laptop-based system that uses existing cell-phone infrastructure to collect medical data from children.

The project is called Mashavu, and they are currently working on implementation in Tanzania. For more information refer to the link below.

http://ideablob.com/posts/171

View a recent Daily Collegian article about the ideablob contest winners.

03/06/08
PSES Awards

Ruth Smith has been named the recipient of a prestigious Penn State Engineering Society (PSES) Outstanding Staff Award for 2008. The competition for these awards is incredibly high given the quality of staff across the College.

The Department Head Andrew Zydney said, "This is truly a wonderful honor and recognition of all of Ruth's contributions to the Department." Dr. Darrell Velegol, a faculty member in Chemical Engineering, said, "Ruth's dedication to serving each student with dignity really inspired me to do the same with my undergrad and PhD students."

An Awards Ceremony will be held in the Kunkle Activities Center in Hammond Building on Friday, April 11 at 1:30. Ruth's award comes only two years after Sue Ellen Bainbridge won this same award in 2006, demonstrating the excellence of the staff in Chemical Engineering.

View information about all of this year's recipients on Penn State Live.

02/19/08
Ian Rickenbach and Dance Marathon 2008

Chemical engineering student Ian Rickenbach has a tall task this weekend: coordinating the entertainment for the IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon.

View the full story on Penn State Live

02/11/08
David B. Asay is the recipient of the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award

Graduate student David B. Asay is the recipient of the Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award. The Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award honors interdisciplinary materials research at Penn State which yields valuable, unexpected results and recognizes genuine innovation not previously achieved. David's advisor is Dr. Seong Kim.

Rustum and Della Roy Innovation in Materials Research Award Web Page

01/16/08
Pennsylvania Farm Show Butter Sculpture

After the conclusion of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, which ran from January 5 to January 12, about 900 pounds of butter used in the event's famous butter sculpture was scraped off its frame by Penn State farm operations workers, plopped into barrels and brought back to the University and State College Area High School for conversion into biodiesel.

Read the full story on Penn State Live

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