The RAPID Manufacturing Institute® and ExxonMobil are excited to announce this year’s ChemE Cube™ finalist teams competing for the Cube in October. This year, 38 teams competed in the virtual qualifying round. Of those, 18 teams were chosen to move on to the final competition taking place at AIChE’s Annual Student Conference in San Diego. The theme for the 2024 competition is Direct Air Capture and Regeneration.
Launched in 2020 by the RAPID Manufacturing Institute, ChemE Cube is an annual student competition where undergraduate university teams design, build, and demonstrate a one-cubic-foot plant to produce a chemistry defined in the annual problem statement.
ChemE Cube is a part of AIChE's Practice+, a component of the Institute for Learning & Innovation (ILI).
The teams advancing and participating in the 2024 ChemE Cube Competition are:
- An-Najah National University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Colorado State University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McMaster University
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Tecnológico de Monterrey
- University of California, Davis
- University of California, Los Angeles
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois Chicago
- University of Michigan
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
- University of South Carolina
- Virginia Tech
- West Virginia University
Join us during the Annual Student Conference in San Diego on October 27 and 28 to watch the live ChemE Cube competition.
Thank you to our sponsors for their support in growing and scaling ChemE Cube.
Interested in competing next year? Make sure to attend this year’s ChemE Cube Competition when we announce the 2025 challenge!
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