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2017 AIChE's 35 Under 35 Award

Dawud Tan

Managing family and professional life is a challenge — particularly for Tan, who had to decide between going back to Indonesia to be closer to his family after earning his undergraduate degree in the U.S., or staying and pursuing his doctoral degree. A research specialist at 3M, Tan is happy he chose to stay in the U.S. to further his education, saying, “There is always a happy medium.” Living in the U.S. came with language challenges, which Tan overcame by “forcing myself to not be shy and interact with other English-speaking people around me” — growth...Read more

2017 AIChE's 35 Under 35 Award

Matthew Webber

An assistant professor in the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dept. and the Chemistry and Biochemistry Dept. at the Univ. of Notre Dame, Webber is working to advance therapeutic strategies rooted in molecular engineering toward clinical applications that impact human health. “I would love to look back on my career and be able to point to a technology originating from my lab that directly made a meaningful impact on improving healthcare for people,” he says.

Webber enjoys teaching and leading “eager young people who are bright, engaging, creative, and driven” and working with...Read more

2017 AIChE's 35 Under 35 Award

Kendall Werts

Kendall works in process safety and risk analysis for the petrochemical industry. She enjoys working with different types of people to keep the industry as safe as possible.

Her background includes working in process safety for LNG export, liquefaction, storage, and transfer operations; NGL and LPG processing, transfer, and storage operations; Gas to Liquids facilities; Refineries; and other types of chemical plants. Process safety topics in which she has experience for these types of facilities includes code compliance including US, Canadian, and international codes and standards;...Read more

2017 AIChE's 35 Under 35 Award

3D Printing Fundamentals and Applications

While still in its developmental stage, additive manufacturing or 3D printing has been referred to as a new manufacturing revolution, enabling cutting-edge research in both bioengineering and traditional chemical engineering fields due to its ability for customization and relative speed.

Betul Bilgin

Imagine being thrown into teaching a senior design course two weeks into the semester with no course materials or prior experience teaching the course — and on top of that, your school’s accreditation is being evaluated. This is the seemingly insurmountable challenge Bilgin was faced with during her first year of teaching at UIC. She not only overcame this challenge, but earned praise from the accreditation program evaluator for her dedication, effectiveness, and enthusiasm.

Despite her obvious resourcefulness and adaptability, there is never enough time for Bilgin to...Read more

Cole DeForest

With a lengthy list of accomplishments and awards to his name, DeForest is an achiever who regularly sets his sights on the highest peaks and surmounts them. An assistant professor in the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at the Univ. of Washington, he teaches classes on reactor design, polymer chemistry, and biological frameworks and manages a research group that develops novel biomaterial-based strategies for human health applications.

The biological side of chemical engineering interested DeForest even before he’d taken his first chemical engineering course. A summer undergraduate...Read more

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