August 2017

Mirri was awarded both the best engineering thesis award and the best invention award in 2016 from Rice Univ. for her work on carbon nanotube solutions for lightweight, electrically conductive materials. “I was able to turn an original idea into an innovative product,” she says. She remains at Rice as a research scientist, focusing on carbon nanotube synthesis and characterization of carbon nanotubes in solution using X-ray and neutron-scattering techniques. She is also involved in the development of lithium-ion batteries made of carbon nanotubes for wearable electronics...Read more

Dr Ruth Misener is a Senior Lecturer in Computational Optimization and EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow (2017-2022) in the Imperial College London Department of Computing. Ruth received an SB from MIT and a PhD from Princeton under the direction of Professor C A Floudas. Foundations of her research are in numerical optimization algorithms. Applications include bioprocess optimization under uncertainty and petrochemical process network design and operations. Ruth has co-authored software including ANTIGONE for mixed-integer nonlinear optimization. Ruth received the 2017 Macfarlane Medal...Read more

Murphy is a confections performance analyst at Mondelez — a company that produces some familiar snack foods. She was drawn to chemical engineering because of the various professional pathways it offers, which she’s taken advantage of, choosing food and beverage over more traditional paths.

She is proud of the time she has spent in manufacturing, explaining, “Manufacturing can be an extremely challenging environment that I am proud to say I survived!” Working with her colleagues and taking advantage of the various skills they bring to a project is part of what...Read more