Chemical Engineering News

Consumer Product Manufacturing Team Shares Enterprise Success Story

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Huskies who participate in Michigan Tech’s Enterprise Program learn how to partner with industry and get the kind of experience that employers are looking for when hiring. In the case of the Consumer Product Manufacturing Enterprise (CPM) OneTumbler Team, the research they conducted for their project also led to a publication credit and fewer single-use beverage containers on campus.

Hear from 2024 chemical engineering graduate Jacqui Foreman, who led the CPM OneTumbler Team, on the College of Engineering Blog.

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VPR Announces C2E2 Awards for Impactful Equipment

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The Vice President for Research Office (VPR) has awarded the following Century II Campaign Endowed Equipment Fund (C2E2) awards at the recommendation of the C2E2 Committee:

  • Bo Chen (CS) — Developing an Autonomous Vehicle Testbed for Research and Education in Vehicle Security
  • Terri Jo Frew (VPA) — Peter Pugger VPM-9SS Clay Pug Mill and Stand
  • Robert Handler (ChE/BioSci) — Michigan Tech Aquaponics
  • Parth Bhatt (CFRES) — Enhancing CFRES’s Research and Educational Capabilities through Acquisition of the DJI Mavic 3M Drone
  • Matthew Moore (VPA) — Proposal for Making Improvements to the Rozsa Scene Shop Dust Collection System for a Safer and Healthier Environment
  • Tan Chen (ECE) — Acquisition of a Humanoid Robot to Advance Multi-Disciplinary Research and Strengthen Robotics Engineering Education at Michigan Tech

Thank you to the C2E2 Committee members and the deans and department chairs for their time spent on this internal research award program.

For additional information on the C2E2 opportunity, visit the C2E2 website.

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HRI Student Research Forum Winners Announced

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The Health Research Institute (HRI) at Michigan Tech is pleased to announce the winners of the poster and oral presentation sessions from our annual Student Research Forum, which was held on Nov. 20. Congratulations to the following:

Poster Session:

  • First Place — Taravat Sarvari, Chemical Engineering
  • Second — Grace Dykstra, Chemical Engineering
  • Third — Natalia Krakhaleva, Chemical Engineering

Oral Presentations:

  • First Place — Ahmad Bshennaty, Biomedical Engineering
  • Second Place — Kamand Sedaghatnia, Chemistry
  • Third Place — Victoria Santillan, Biomedical Engineering

For more information on the Institute, please visit the HRI website.

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Interdisciplinary Health Research Engineered to Benefit Communities

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Michigan Tech research crosses disciplines — and crosses the globe. “International partnerships are really key to expanding your research network, research ideas, and to be able to have your research out into industry and be applied,” said Professor Caryn Heldt (ChE), who directs the University’s Health Research Institute.

In the Heldt Bioseparations Laboratory, research team members are collaborating to apply their work in ways that can be adapted for best use in countries throughout the world. Bellicia Kamwanya, a research biologist in the Democratic Republic of Congo, teamed up with award-winning MTU researcher Vaishali Sharma in Heldt’s lab as part of the U.S.-Africa Frontiers fellowship program.

Hear from Kamwanya in a video on the College of Engineering Blog.

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Department of Chemical Engineering Welcomes New Faculty Members

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This fall, the College of Engineering welcomed 16 new faculty members across eight departments, including three in the Department of Chemical Engineering. These new faculty members bring a wide range of specializations in microfluids, electrokinetics, cancer tissue engineering, sustainable water and energy systems and much more.

Read more about the new faculty members on the College of Engineering blog.

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COE Annual Lecture Series Features Inspiring ChE Alumna

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More than 800 first-year engineering Huskies turned out for the College of Engineering’s (COE’s) annual lecture, designed especially for them. The First-Year Engineering Series lecture took place Monday, Aug. 26, at the Rozsa Center, hosted by the Department of Engineering Fundamentals. This year’s featured lecturer was chemical engineering alumna Jessica Elwell ’02 ’03.

“Jessica told the fascinating and inspiring story of how she and her team at OxEon Energy worked with NASA to figure out how to make oxygen from in-situ resources on Mars (Yes, Mars!),” said COE Dean Michelle Scherer. “She also shared her journey to being chief operating officer at OxEon and how she has been able to focus her work on her passion of converting carbon dioxide into oxygen and sustainable fuels.”

Scherer said Elwell’s words of wisdom reinforced why it’s important to move outside the comfort zone to try new things and to remember that engineering design requires failing many times until you find the solution.

Read more about the lecture series and Elwell’s accomplishments on the College of Engineering Blog.

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New Funding

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Robert Handler (ChE/GLRC), the principal investigator on a project, received a $262,537 research and development co-op joint agreement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service.

The project is titled “Evaluating the Sustainable Production of Engineered BioCarbon for Coal Combustion Residual (CCR) Remediation from Fuel Reduction Treatments in the Superior National Forest (SNF).”

This is a potential three-year project.

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