Home Log On Contacts Sitemap View Shopping Cart  |  Checkout
 
About AIChE

Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award


Winner(s): 

2011 Daniel A. Beneke, University of the Witwatersrand
Separations Area:  Distillation and Absorption
Advisor:  Professor David Glasser

2011 Ying Diao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Separations Area:  Crystallization and Evaporation
Advisor:  Professor Bernhardt L. Trout

2011 Scott R. Lewis, University of Kentucky
Separations Area: Membrane-Based Separations
Advisor:  Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya

2011 Jian Liu, Vanderbilt University
Separations Area:  Adsorption and Ion Exchange
Advisor:  Professor M. Douglas LeVan

2011 Suzanne M. D’Addio, Princeton University
Separations Area:  Fluid-Particle Separations
Advisor:  Professor Robert K. Prud’homme

2011 Ying Hou, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Separations Area: Bioseparations
Advisor:  Professor Steven M. Cramer

2011 Suzanne M. D’Addio, Princeton University
Separations Area:  Fluid-Particle Separations
Advisor:  Professor Robert K. Prud’homme

2011 Ying Hou, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Separations Area:  Bioseparations
Advisor:  Professor Steven M. Cramer

2011 Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya Graduate Student Award:
Recognizing his and support overall long-term commitment to student development in the membranes area.

2011 Kartik Ramasubramanian, The Ohio State University
Advisor:  Professor W. S. Winston Ho

 

Sponsor(s): 

Chevron Energy Technology Corp., Merck / Millipore, Praxair, and Sepro Corp.

Description:  Recognizes six outstanding graduate students in any of the Separations Division's areas: (1) Adsorption and Ion Exchange, (2) Crystallization and Evaporation, (3) Distillation and Absorption, (4) Extraction, (5) Fluid-Particle Separations, (6) Membrane-based separations, (7) Bioseparations and (8) General Separations. For consideration for the award, the following should be submitted: (a) a single paper contributing to separations fundamentals or applications; (b) a single nomination letter detailing the student's strengths and accomplishments; (c) The student's CV. To be eligible for this year’s awards, the nominees must currently be graduate students or have been graduate students since the last AIChE Annual meeting last November.  The selection criteria include: 1. The paper must report on research, investigation or design, and must be part of the student's work for a graduate degree. 2. The paper may be co-authored by others, but the student nominee must have been the primary author. 3. The paper should be of a quality acceptable for publication in journals such as the AIChE Journal and Chemical Engineering Science. 4. Papers will be judged on technical content, quality of writing and organization. 5. The person nominating a student must be a member of AIChE.
Deadline: Nominations must be received by June 1 of each year. Awards will be made at the next AIChE Annual Meeting. Submit nomination packets to Nicholas F. Urbanski; e-mail: SepDivArea2a@aol.com. All submissions must be electronic. Nomination letters may be submitted in Adobe Acrobat format or Microsoft Word.
Award: A plaque and $200 for each award recipient.
Presentation: The award is presented at the Separations Division Dinner at the AIChE Annual Meeting.
Past Recipients:
2010 Xiaoying Bao 2010 Christopher S. Morrison
2010 Ryan H. Hart 2010 Ryan Mourhatch
2010 Jennifer Pascal 2010 Vishesh H. Shah
2009 Scott Owens Perry  2009 Aihua Zhu
2009 Sarah L. 2009 Pedro Dá Gomes
2008 Ryan C. Snyder 2008 David R. Latulippe 
2008 Rahul B. Kasat 2007 He Bai
2007 Roy Raharjo 2006 Praveen Kosaraju
2006 Haiqing Lin 2005 Xing Yi Woo
2005 Mark Snyder 2005 Krista S. Walton
2004 Meredith Feins 2004 Kaushal Rege
2004 Rachel Specht 2004 Michael Lazzaroni
2004 Travis Reine 2004 Dimitrios Zarkadas 
2003 Sungyong Mun 2003 Shaji Chempath
2003 Arturo Hernandez-Maldonado 2003 Alfred Lee
2003 Beelin Cheang 2003 Volodymyr Tarabara
2002 Yuqing Ding 2002 Parag S. Shah
2002 Anastasios Skoulidas 2002 Ann Visser
2002 Jianjun Peng 2002 Brian W. Roberts
2002 Bing Shi 2001 M. Strano
2001 J. Romero 2001 K. Kim
2001 K. Jeerage 2000 T. Merkel
2000 C. Schmit 2000 A. Gupta
2000 D. D. Obrigkeit 2000 S. A. Al-Muhtaseb
1999 C. Ho 1999 J. Givand
1999 L. S. Hutahaen 1999 J. Givand
1999 J. E. Tolsma 1999 A. D. Ebner
1999 F. Siperstein