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Environmental Division Graduate Student Paper Award

 

Winner(s):

2009 1st: Bhanu Sunkara - Tulane University                            
2009 2nd: Mark Joy - North Carolina A&T University
2009 3rd: Candace Watson - University of Alabama at Birmingham      

Sponsor(s):

Environmental Division

Description:

Recognizes outstanding graduate student contributions to environmental protection through chemical engineering. The award is based on the annual graduate student paper competition. Selection criteria include: 1) The graduate student must be a member of AIChE at the time of submission. 2) The work presented must be carried out while the graduate student is enrolled at a university with an accredited chemical engineering program. 3) The graduate student must be the primary author (faculty advisors may be co-authors). 4) The paper must describe original research (experimental, numerical, or theoretical) or design; papers consisting of literature reviews are not permitted. 5) The paper must be suitable for publication in a refereed journal. 6) The paper must represent a contribution to environmental protection through the application of chemical engineering. Nomination for the award should include: A single nomination letter detailing the student’s strengths and accomplishments and a single paper contributing to environmental science and engineering fundamentals or applications. Papers will be judged on quality, technical content, writing and organization. Nominations may be submitted by any member of AIChE.

Deadline:

May 1, 2012 - Submit the nomination package electronically to the 1st Vice Chair of the Division, Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis; email: vasilios@ucla.edu

Award:

Plaques and $500, $300, and $200 for first, second and third place, respectively.

Presentation:

The award is presented at a designated function of the Environmental Division at either the AIChE Spring National Meeting or the AIChE Annual Meeting.

Past Recipients:

2010 1st:  Neha Sareen - Columbia University
2010 2nd:  Chaowei Liu - Lamar University
2010 3rd:  William Morris - University of Utah
2009 1st:  Bhanu Sunkara - Tulane University
2009 2nd:  Mark Joy  - North Carolina A&T State University
2009 3rd:  Candace Watson - University of Alabama at Birmingham
2008 1st:  Bhupesh Adhikary – The University of Iowa
2008 1st:  Nicholas A. Ashley – Louisiana State University
2008 1st:  Hong Jin – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2008 2nd:  Megha Dadwhal – University of Southern California
2008 2nd:  Jingjing Zhan – Tulane University
2007 1st:  Y. Shastri – University of Illinois, Chicago
2007 2nd:  J. Hau – The Ohio State University
2007 3rd:  C.M. Tenney – University of Michigan
2007 3rd:  S. Kulkarni – University of Iowa
2005 1st:  J. Xu - University of Kentucky
2005 2nd:  J. Hau- Ohio State University
2005 3rd:  M. Nutt - Georgia Tech
2002:  K. Kim