Separations Division Graduate Student Research Award

Recognizes outstanding graduate students in the following 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
Deadline: 
June 1, 2013
Award Administrator(s): 
Award: 

A plaque and $200 for each award recipient; a plaque for student's advisor.

Presentation: 
The award is presented at the Separations Division Dinner at the AIChE Annual Meeting.
Instructions: 

For consideration for the award, the following should be submitted:

  1. a single paper contributing to separations fundamentals or applications. This paper may be co-authored by others, but the student nominee must have been the primary author. The paper should be of a quality acceptable for publication in journals such as the AIChE Journal or Chemical Engineering Science.
  2. a single nomination letter detailing the student's strengths and accomplishments, writtenby a faculty member, who must be a member of AIChE.
  3. 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. Nominations are due June 1st.

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.

Submit nomination packets to Nicholas F. Urbanski; Tel. 713.431.7431; e-mail: SepDivArea2a@aol.com. All submissions must be electronic. Nomination letters must be submitted in Adobe Acrobat format or Microsoft Word.

Award Winners

Heath Himstedt
2012
Chao Fu
2012
2012
Rajasekhar Anumolu
2012
Liren Xu
2012
John F. Thompson
2012
Anthony B. Thompson
2012
Meenesh Singh
2012
Li-Chiang Lin
2012
Zubin Kuvadia
2012
Andrew D. Hughes
2012
Melissa Holstein
2012
Jian Liu
Separations Area: Adsorption and Ion Exchange; Advisor: Professor M. Douglas LeVan
2011
Daniel A. Beneke
Separations Area: Distillation and Absorption. Advisor: Professor David Glasser
2011
Kartik Ramasubramanian
Advisor:  Professor W. S. Winston Ho
2011
Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya
Recognizing his and support overall long-term commitment to student development in the membranes area.
2011
Suzanne M. D’Addio
Separations Area: Fluid-Particle Separations; Advisor: Professor Robert K. Prud’homme
2011
Suzanne M. D’Addio
Separations Area: Fluid-Particle Separations; Advisor: Professor Robert K. Prud’homme
2011