The 2nd Annual Research Forum for Graduate and Undergraduate Students for the Department of Chemical Engineering was held on Wednesday, January 22, 2014.
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The research forum agenda consisted of Oral Presentations in the morning followed by a luncheon and then Poster Presentations in the afternoon at the MUB Ballroom.
Judges for the Oral Presentations
Richard Donovan – Senior Research Engineer (Chemical Engineering)
Jay Meldrum – Director (Keweenaw Research Center)
Caryn Heldt – Assistant Professor (Chemical Engineering)
Debra Charlesworth – Assistant to the Dean (Graduate School)
Awards
A special thank you to our judges, and all volunteers and participants of this event.
Final Results will also be on this Research Forum webpage
Oral Presentations
1. Mathkar Alharthi – Dynamics and Control of Reactive Distillation for the Production of Diphenyl Carbonate
2. Yang Zhang – Novel Model for Simultaneous Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose and Hemicelluloses Considering Morphologies
3. Nasrin Salehi – Lentivirus tagged with CD47 self-marker proteins for gene therapy
4. Jordan Klinger – Temperature Dependence of Aspen Torrefaction Reaction Kinetics
5. Danielle Klimek – Determination and Modeling of Tensile and Nanoindentation Modulus for Graphene/Epoxy Composites
6. Maria Tafur – Virus purification using osmolyte flocculation
7. David Chadderdon – Electrocatalytic oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5- furandicarboxalic acid on carbon supported Au and Pd alloyed nanoparticles
8. Ran An – Alternating Current Faradaic Reactions above the Electrode Charging Frequency in Spatially Non-Uniform Electric Fields
Graduate Poster Presentations
1. Chungja Yang – Size, Shell Material and Medium Conductivity Dependence on Dielectrophoretic Behaviors of Perfluorooctyl Bromide Oil Core, Chitosan/Poly-L-Lysine Shell Nanoparticles: Experimental Results
2. Jeana Dillon – Comparison of simulations and experimental water-in-oil droplet formation in a microfluidic T-junction
3. Alicia Sawdon – Alginate-based nanvectors towards suicide gene therapy
4. Maryam Khaksari – Determination and Quantification of Water-Soluble and Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Human Biofluids with HPLC/MS
5. Tayloria Adams – Dielectrophoretic Response Quantification of ELP-PEI Modified Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells
6. Hwi Yong Lee – Electrochemical Hematocrit Measurement in a Microfluidic Device
7. K. Saagar Vijayaragavan – Purification of a non-enveloped virus using an aqueous two phase system
8. Ethan Weydemeyer – A Direct Method of Hydroxyl Group Functionalization and Size Reduction of Carbon Nanoubes Using Hydrogen Peroxide
9. Zhichao Wang – A Novel Surface Enabled Graphene Lab-on-a-Chip Protein Sensor
10. Bethany Klemetsrud – Enhanced Pyrolysis Oil Properties through Pretreatment of Aspen with Controlled Torrefaction
11. Olumide Winjobi – Techno-Economic Analyses of Fast Pyrolysis for Bio-fuel Production from Wood
12. Neeva Benipal – Au, Pd mono and bimetallic nanoparticles supported on carbon nanotube as anode catalysts for electrocatalytic selective oxidation of glycerol to tartronate in anion exchange membrane fuel cell with electricity cogeneration …
13. Le Xin – Potential controlled selective oxidation of glycerol on Au nanoparticle catalyst in continuous electrocatalytic membrane reactor
14. Joseph Halt – New binders for iron ore pelletization
15. Jacob E.D. McDonald – A Comparative Study of Starches with Varying Solubilities as Supplemental Iron Ore Binders
16. Rui Shi – Life Cycle Assessments of Algal Biofuels: Extensions Beyond Traditional Algal Fuels Framework
17. Jiqing Fan – Modeling of direct land use change of biofuels and bioenergy produced from aspen in Michigan forests
18. Yang Qiu – Investigation of non-precious metal electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reactions in high pH environment
19. Howard Haselhuhn – Dispersant Adsorption and Effects on Settling Behavior of Iron Ore
20. Hrishikesh Vilas Shinde – Novel Approach to Concentrate Fine Gold Particles for Analytical Sampling
21. Suchada Ukaew – Regional Variations in N2O Emissions From Rotation Cropping of Rapeseed with Wheat
Undergraduate Poster Presentations
23. Dylan Gregory Turpeinen – Mechanical Properties of Graphene Nanoplatelet/Epoxy Composites Determined by Nanoindentation
24. Alex Hanley – An Automated Laboratory Pelletizer for Iron Ore
25. Matthew Manning – Design of a Laboratory Scale Deslime Thickener
26. Kelsey Maijala – Resistivity of Tears as Concentration Marker in Human Tear Analysis
27. Katherine Massa – Calibration of Fluorescent Ion Indicators for Use Discerning Ion Gradients in Microdevices
28. Michael J. Grillo and Michael J. D’Angelo – Novel Graphene Paper Sensor: Robustness of Protein Detection
29. Alexander Bank – Translating research and technology development to hands-on outreach
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