Pharmaceutical manufacturing is a major industry in the U.S., with more than 4 billion prescriptions filled annually. Purdue University researchers including Chemical Engineering faculty Dr. Zoltan Nagy and Dr. Gintaras Reklaitis are utilizing the Continuous Solids Processing Plant to bring the latest smart technology advancements to the tablet-making process.

Two Davidson School of Chemical Engineering faculty will be honored for their contributions at the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting on October 29 and October 30 in Pittsburgh. Dr. Doraiswami Ramakrishna, Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Dr. Gintaras Reklaitis, Burton and Kathryn Gedge Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, will be honored at special sessions.

Two Davidson School of Chemical Engineering undergraduate students will receive national-level American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) awards. Rohan Dighe and Claire O’Connor are set to be recognized for scholastic achievement and freshman recognition at the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October.

Two Purdue University graduate students from the research group of Chemical Engineering Professor Rakesh Agrawal have been selected to present talks at the 2018 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Student Chapters Committee has named Purdue AIChE as one of the recipients of the 2017-2018 Outstanding Student Chapter award. This is the third consecutive year that the student organization has been recognized with this award. Purdue AIChE student leaders will be honored at the AIChE Annual Student Conference awards ceremony on October 28, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.