Research Groups

• Undergraduate Biodiesel Research Group (New Window)
  The primary objective of the Biodiesel Project is to provide undergraduate students with a real life, hands on engineering project to enhance their chemical engineering principles. The students obtained and developed data from which they have conducted experiments, designed, constructed and operated a 25-gallon bio-diesel pilot plant used to transesterify vegetable oils into bio-diesel fuel. Waste cooking oils available on campus and from local restaurants are utilized as the feedstock.


• Center for the Study of Polymeric Systems (New Window)
  A prominent source of information on polymer-solvent interactions, combining experienced leadership with detailed and dedicated student research. This center was established as a response to needs expressed by industry. Ron Danner of Chemical Engineering and Coray Colina of Materials Science and Engineering serve as co-directors of the center.


• Patrick Cirino Research Group (New Window)
  Research in my laboratory interfaces Chemical Engineering with the biological sciences, with emphases in biomolecular engineering, metabolic engineering, andbiocatalysis. Nature provides a vast collection of biological systems which have evolved mechanisms to achieve catalysis, regulation, molecular recognition, and energy utilization with incredible efficiency.


• Wayne Curtis Lab Page (New Window)
  The research in my laboratory focuses on bioreactor design for plant tissue culture bioprocesses, and control and optimization of secondary metabolism for chemical production from plant tissues.


• Jong-in Hahm Research Group
  Dr. Hahm's research group studies new materials, particularly molecular structures on the nanometer scale, for use as molecular tools in engineering and investigating biologically important systems. Ultimately our goal is to develop materials that can be applied to functions as diverse as molecular probes, improved genotyping methods, and systems for screening small molecules and early disease markers.


• Seong Kim Research Group
  The chemical and physical properties of solid surfaces play a key role in many industrial processes such as nanotechnology, heterogeneous catalysis, tribology, semiconductor devices, biomaterials, etc. The main theme of research in my lab is to understand fundamentals of the surface chemistry and physics related to these applications and to develop new methodologies to produce solid materials with surface properties tailored for better performance.


• Costas Maranas Research Group (New Window)
  The group's state-of-the-art research activities in optimization - which span the fields of operations research, metabolic engineering, protein design, and bioinformatics.


• Janna Maranas Research Group (New Window)
  "mobility of polymers, glasses & biological systems on picosecond - nanosecond time scales and angstrom - nanometer spatial scales using molecular simulation and quasielastic neutron scattering". Please see my research page for more information.


• Darrell Velegol Research Group (New Window)
  Fabrication of colloidal devices, nanocolloidal forces and dispersion, nanoscale charge nonuniformity on particles.