Chemical Engineering Graduate Colloquium
Chemical Engineering Graduate Colloquium
| Event Date: | March 6, 2009 | 
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GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
School of Chemical Engineering
March 6 – 8, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
7:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M.            Mixer – Holiday Inn Select – Ballroom (Invitation Only)
                                                Welcoming Remarks –  Dr. You Yeon Won
                                                GSO – Hari Nair 
Saturday, March 7, 2009
8:15 A.M. – 9:15 A.M.            Breakfast/Welcoming Remarks – Purdue Memorial Union/Anniversary Drawing Room – 2nd floor .
9:15 A.M. – 9:30 A.M.            Walk to FRNY
9:30 A.M. – 9:55 A.M.            Status of School & Strategic Issues – Dr. Arvind Varma – 
                                                FRNY G124
10:00 A.M. – 10:25 A.M.        First Year Experience – Prof. James Litster – FRNY G124
10:30 A.M.. – 11:10 A.M.       Overview of Research and Discovery Park – Prof. John Morgan and 
                                                Prof. Kendall Thomson – FRNY G124 
11:15 A.M. – 1:15 P.M.           Poster Session/Lunch (12:30 p.m.) – FRNY Atrium 
1:30 P.M. – 2:30 P.M.              Campus Tour by Graduate Students
2:30 P.M. – 3:00 P.M.              Lab Tours:  Catalysis – Vincent Kispersky (Ribeiro)
                                                Bio-related – Julie Kadrmas (Liu)/Sean Werner (Morgan), 
                                                Energy – Grayson Ford (Agrawal/Hillhouse),  
                                                Polymers – Kevin Witte (Won) 
3:00 P.M. – 5:30 P.M.              Individual Discussions with Faculty and Students
7:00 P.M. – 9:00 P.M.              Dinner – Various Restaurants – 
                                                Meet in Hotel Lobby between 6:45 – 7 p.m.
9:30 P.M. -                               Optional Night on Town – Meet in Hotel Lobby at 9:30 P.M.
Sunday, March 8, 2009
9:30 A.M. – 11:00 A.M.         Brunch – Holiday Inn Select – Spears Room
11:00 A.M. -                           Catch up & Visitors Depart
List of Presenters to the Poster Session
1.      Biochemical and Biomolecular Engineering
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Harris Liu Morgan Morgan Yuan | Jung-Sun Lim Julie Kadrmas Nanette Boyle Sean Werner Chongli Yuan | Nanocircuits by the Coating and Deposition of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Nanorods Engineering Biomaterials to Direct Bone and Cartilage Regeneration Flux Balance Analysis of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Expression of a Flavonoid Glucosyltransferase in Yeast for Whole-cell Biocatalysis Exploring Epigenetic Phenomena Using Engineering Approach | 
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2.      Polymers and Materials
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Won Yuan | Dana Gary Chongli Yuan | Polymer-Based Gene Delivery for Cancer Treatment Exploring Epigenetic Phenomena using Engineering Approach | 
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3.      Nanoscale Science and Engineering
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Agrawal Hillhouse Corti Franses | Grayson Ford Mahaprasad Kar Jiannan Dong | Development of Low-Cost Solar Cells from  Nanocrystal Inks Colloidal Dispersion Stability of Printing Inks and Ink-Like Model Dispersions | 
| Hillhouse Agrawal Ribeiro Ribeiro | Robert McCarthy Steven Gaik Saurabh Chaugule Vincent Kispersky Damion Williams Vincent Kispersky | Development of High-Efficiency Solar Cells from Self-Assembled Nanomaterials Insights into Reaction Mechanisms, Materials Science and Modeling of NOx Storage – Reduction Catalysts for Automotive Lean NOx Emission Abatement Spectroscopic Determination of Descriptors for WGS Catalysts | 
4.      Surface Science and Reaction Engineering
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Baertsch Baertsch Ribeiro Ribeiro Varma Varma | Hari Nair Christopher Tan Saurabh Chaugule Vincent Kispersky Damion Williams Vincent Kispersky Moiz Diwan Wenbin Hu | Fundamentals of Metal Oxide Catalysis Microreactors for In-Situ Catalyst Characterization Insights into Reaction Mechanisms, Material Science and Modeling of NOx Storage – Reduction Catalysts for Automotive Lean NOx Emission Abatement Spectroscopic Determination of Descriptors for WGS Catalysts Hydrogen Generation for Fuel Cell Applications Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol to High-Value Chemicals | 
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5.      Molecular and Nanoscale Modeling
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Corti | Bryce Sturtevant | Molecular Modeling of Liquids and Complex Fluids | 
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6.      Fluid Mechanics and Interfacial Phenomena
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Basaran Beaudoin | Santhosh Ramalingam Bich-Van Pham Dave Balachandran | Multi-Phase Small-Scale Flows with Multi-Physics Characterization of Particle and Surface Interactions for Multiple Systems | 
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7.      Product and Process Systems Engineering
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | ||
| Venkatasubramanian Reklaitis Venkatsubramanian Pekny Reklaitis Reklaitis Venkatasubramanian | Pavan Akkisetty Kris Villez Bri-Mathias Hodge Intan Hamdan | Ontological Informatics Framework for Pharmaceutical Product Development Fault-Tolerant Control for Complex Systems Multi-Paradigm Modeling for Energy Systems Analysis Real-Time Process Management | ||
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8.      Mass Transport and Separations
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Agrawal Wankat Wankat | Rugved Pathare Vishesh Shah Pradeep Sharma Anand Venkatesan | Separation Systems for Low Energy Consumption Hybrid Cycles to Purify Concentrated Feeds Containing a Strongly Adsorbed Impurity with a Nonlinear Isotherm: The PSA-TSA Supercycle Ion Exchange Pretreatment for Reverse Osmosis Desalination | 
9.      Pharmaceutical Engineering      
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Basaran Litster Litster | Santhosh Ramalingam Heather Emady Jianfeng Li Shaunak Vora | Multi-Phase Small-Scale Flows with Multi-Physics Design and Analysis of Wet Granulation Microfluidic Crystallization | 
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| Venkatasubramanian Reklaitis | Pavan Akkisetty | Ontological Informatics Framework for Pharmaceutical Product Development | 
10. Alternative Energy and Renewable Energy Sources
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Agrawal Hillhouse Delgass | Grayson Ford Mahaprasad Kar Dharik Mallapragada Sara Yohe Piotr Gawecki | Development of Low-Cost Solar Cells from  Nanocrystal Inks Environmentally Friendly Novel Routes for Transportation Fuel | 
| Hillhouse Agrawal Varma Varma | Robert McCarthy Steven Gaik Moiz Diwan Wenbin Hu | Development of High-Efficiency Solar Cells from Self-Assembled Nanomaterials Hydrogen Generation for Fuel Cell Applications Catalytic Oxidation of Glycerol to High-Value Chemicals | 
11. Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering    
| Faculty | Presenter | Title | 
| Liu Won | Julie Kadrmas Dana Gary | Engineering Biomaterials to Direct Bone and Cartilage Regeneration Polymer-Based Gene Delivery for Cancer Treatment | 
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