Sentences with phrase «chemical engineering research»

Lead authors are chemical engineering graduate student Armon Sharei, Koch Institute research scientist Janet Zoldan, and chemical engineering research associate Andrea Adamo.

Her chemical engineering research has evolved rapidly over the 15 years since she got started, riding some of that field's big trends.

Chemical technicians use special instruments and techniques to help chemists and chemical engineers research, develop, produce, and test chemical products and processes.

Not exact matches

Passionate about the University of Calgary, Schmidt and Laricina Energy Ltd. both played pivotal roles in the Engineering Leaders Campaign at the Schulich School of Engineering, funding a five - year scholarship program, a chemical and petroleum engineering graduate student space, a boardroom in the new engineering building expansion, and a portion of the Canada Research Chair in Energy and Imaging.

Liz holds a bachelor's degree in chemical and biomolecular engineering from Johns Hopkins University, a doctorate in biological sciences from the University of California, San Diego, and postdoctoral research experience from the University of Colorado Boulder.

Alfonsi reports from within Pamper's Top Secret Research and Development Center where over 500 scientists, chemical engineers and seamstresses work to improve the look, feel, absorbency, and trimness of today's disposable diapers.

By turning cell biology into an engineering discipline, CCC aims to develop new chemicals and materials for medical and consumer applications, while at the same time training a more diverse research and manufacturing workforce.

He had internships at Hoechst Celanese and Shell Oil in conventional chemical engineering projects, but it was a research project at his second Hoechst Celanese internship that sparked his interest in pursuing graduate research.

The research team led by Schneider; David Go, Rooney Family Associate Professor of Engineering in aerospace and mechanical engineering; and Jason Hicks, associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, discovered that because the nitrogen molecules are activated by the plasma, the requirements on the metal catalysts are less stringent, allowing less expensive materials to be used throughout the process.

While Berkland was working on his Ph.D. in chemical and biological engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, faculty members there started a company that incorporated Berkland's research on fabricating micro - and nanostructures from biodegradable polymers.

«We are now being encouraged to do this because government funding is slowing down and the university is realizing that there must be other sources of funding to keep the research enterprise alive,» says Arijit Bose, a chemical engineer and department chair at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, who has funding from Honda.

Maggie is a chemical engineer with a background in experimental and computational biomedical research and genetic engineering.

In lab tests, prototype multilayer lenses have shown they can release ciprofloxacin (an antibiotic often used to treat eye and other infections) for up to 100 days, according to a study published in the July issue of Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science by researchers from Children's Hospital Boston, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary's (MEEI) ophthalmology department, Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (M.I.T.) chemical engineering department.

Other authors include Klavs Jensen, head of MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering, and Andrea Adamo, a research associate in chemical engiChemical Engineering, and Andrea Adamo, a research associate in chemical engichemical engineering.

For this study, Yanik's team developed a new technology to inject RNA carried by nanoparticles called lipidoids, previously designed by Daniel Anderson, an associate professor of chemical engineering, member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and an author of the new paper.

«At least when you pollute a site with something like atrazine,» a pesticide, «you can be assured that it will eventually decay,» says Graham, the Kansas environmental engineer, who began his research career tracking chemical pollutants like toxic herbicides.

In alternative energy, Huber sees a need for more research in chemical engineering.

Defined as the harnessing of living processes to achieve healing and repair of damaged and diseased tissues by Tim Hardingham, director of the UK Centre for Tissue Engineering, it is a field that requires collaborative research involving cell and molecular biologists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, and surgeons.

«It's a big problem because not only do you waste energy, but you produce CO2,» says Su Ha, a Washington State University associate professor of chemical engineering and director of the O.H. Reaugh Laboratory for Oil and Gas Research.

- The Wellcome Trust - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Fellowships to support research at the interfaces between biology, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer, and physical or chemical sciences and other biomedical science grants

These structures hold a remarkable quantity of gas, according to Amadeu K. Sum, a chemical engineer and director of the Center for Hydrate Research at the Colorado School of Mines.

«I get to direct research on my own terms, and I have a flexible work schedule,» says Jodie Lutkenhaus, a chemical engineer at Texas A&M University in College Station, who finished her Ph.D. in the Hammond Lab in 2007.

Physicists and mechanical and chemical engineers tend to start in research, and biologists with nanotechnology experience often start on the preclinical side, he adds.

A microeconomic game theoretic perspective,» was coauthored by Jay Sethuraman, professor of industrial engineering and operations research at Columbia Engineering, and Yu Luo, a chemical engineering PhD student working with Venkatasubramanian, and published online in the April 28th issue of the journal Physica A.

For example, genetically engineered organisms used in the research laboratory to develop new chemical synthesis methods are not likely to require the same level of public dialogue as products that have more uncertainty associated with them, such as organisms with gene drives, which enhance organisms» ability to pass certain genetic traits on to their offspring.

The study, co-authored by Dichtel, Damian Helbling, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, and members of their research groups at Northwestern and Cornell, recently was published by the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In addition to Abu - Omar, co-authors include Trenton Parsell, a visiting scholar in the Department of Chemistry; chemical engineering graduate students Sara Yohe, John Degenstein, Emre Gencer, and Harshavardhan Choudhari; chemistry graduate students Ian Klein, Tiffany Jarrell, and Matt Hurt; agricultural and biological engineering graduate student Barron Hewetson; Jeong Im Kim, associate research scientist in biochemistry; Basudeb Saha, associate research scientist in chemistry; Richard Meilan, professor of forestry and natural reserouces; Nathan Mosier, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering; Fabio Ribeiro, the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering; W. Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine S. Nichols Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering; Clint Chapple, the head and distinguished professor of biochemistry; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa, professor of chemistry; and Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engichemical engineering graduate students Sara Yohe, John Degenstein, Emre Gencer, and Harshavardhan Choudhari; chemistry graduate students Ian Klein, Tiffany Jarrell, and Matt Hurt; agricultural and biological engineering graduate student Barron Hewetson; Jeong Im Kim, associate research scientist in biochemistry; Basudeb Saha, associate research scientist in chemistry; Richard Meilan, professor of forestry and natural reserouces; Nathan Mosier, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering; Fabio Ribeiro, the R. Norris and Eleanor Shreve Professor of Chemical Engineering; W. Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine S. Nichols Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering; Clint Chapple, the head and distinguished professor of biochemistry; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa, professor of chemistry; and Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical EngiChemical Engineering; W. Nicholas Delgass, the Maxine S. Nichols Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering; Clint Chapple, the head and distinguished professor of biochemistry; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa, professor of chemistry; and Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical EngiChemical Engineering; Clint Chapple, the head and distinguished professor of biochemistry; Hilkka I. Kenttamaa, professor of chemistry; and Rakesh Agrawal, the Winthrop E. Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical EngiChemical Engineering.

systems, says Timothy White, a chemical engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, who was not involved in the rResearch Laboratory at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, who was not involved in the researchresearch.

For example, research from Bayer Corporation reveals that 18 percent of female and minority chemists and chemical engineers say professors discouraged them from pursuing a science career.

Cancer researcher Janet Sawicki of the Lankenau Institute for Medical Research in Pennsylvania, chemical engineer Robert Langer of MIT, and their colleagues are investigating biodegradable nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for ovarian cancer.

The new approach could be a boon for incorporating various types of circuitry into textiles, says Barry DeCristofano, a chemical engineer and electrical textiles expert at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center in Massachusetts.

There's a strong need for expanded use of technology that can clean water without the use of chemicals, says Thomas Harmon, an associate engineering professor at the University of California, Merced, and co-founder of the Center for Embedded Network Sensing (CENS), a research group that specializes in using wireless sensors to, among other things, measure and monitor water pollution.

Claudio Vita and his colleagues at the protein engineering department of CEA, the French nuclear research agency in Gif - sur - Yvette, are using the toxins found in scorpion venom as a chemical scaffold to build novel proteins for use as drugs (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 92, p 6404).

Keasling's research focuses on engineering microorganisms to produce useful chemicals.

The research, which will be published May 29 in the journal Science Advances, was led by Blaine A. Pfeifer, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Earlier research at Rice by chemist and chemical engineer Matteo Pasquali, a co-author on the new paper, used an acid dissolution process to keep the nanotubes separated until they could be spun into fibers.

The research team created four variants of the engineered molecule, each of which contained a PBA molecule with a different chemical modification, such as an atom of fluorine and nitrogen.

With support from WPI's Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3), Marion Emmert, assistant professor of chemistry, chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering at WPI, and postdoctoral fellow H.M. Dhammika Bandara conduct research at WPI's Gateway Park in a specially equipped laboratory, one of the only such facilities of its kind in the nation.

«Converting carbon dioxide to useful chemicals in a selective and efficient way remains a major challenge in renewable and sustainable energy research,» according to Feng Jiao, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and the project's lead researcher.

«This graphene system is able to detect the level of activity of an interfaced cell,» says Vikas Berry, associate professor and head of chemical engineering at UIC, who led the research along with Ankit Mehta, assistant professor of clinical neurosurgery in the UIC College of Medicine.

«Over millions of years, these little chemical engineers have developed a diversity of molecules that target different parts of our nervous system,» says Ken Winkel, Director of the Australian Venom Research Unit at the University of Melbourne.

The company has two research centres in the UK, one at Port Sunlight (with a specialisation in physical sciences and advanced manufacturing) and the other at Edgewater (physical sciences, chemical engineering, and the biochemistry and physiology of skin).

The real significance of this research, Mavrikakis says, is less about basic chemistry and more about offering a way forward as chemical engineers work to predict and synthesize new catalytic materials, with the ultimate goal of replacing platinum and palladium with more affordable metals.

Anyone familiar with biodiesel can tell you that's no small feat,» says chemical engineer Chad Wocken, EERC environmental technologies research manager.

«If you want to estimate the storage capacity of shale gas, you need to understand materials that store them,» said Yun Liu, an affiliated associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware and a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research.

«Most of the other techniques used in the petroleum field provide the «average» values of sample parameters,» said study author Wei - Shan Chiang, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical and biomolecular engineering at UD who does work onsite at NIST Center for Neutron Research and at Aramco Services Company.

«The most important advantages of removing ink are, on the one hand, increasing the value of engineered plastic, achieving to match the quality of the new plastic with a virgin one, and on the other hand, the selling price of recycled plastic compared to virgin plastic», Andrés Fullana Font explains, a lecturer of the UA Department of chemical engineering and a member of the research group.

A chemical engineer has been chosen to lead one of Europe's largest research agencies.

«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.

In addition to McAlpine, Verma, Mannoor and Gracias the research team includes: Winston Soboyejo, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton; Karen Malatesta, a faculty fellow in molecular biology at Princeton; Yong Lin Kong, a graduate student in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton; and Teena James, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at Johns Hopkins.