CBE students win research and innovation awards
With Spring Semester comes the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, the Hayes Graduate Research Forum, the Smart Campus Challenge, and other opportunities for our students to demonstrate their talents and hard-earned research skills.
In the 2019 Denman Undergraduate Research Forum, two of our undergraduates won prizes:
Corey Sceranka (Ozkan Group) won Third Place in Engineering: Chemical & Environment, and Michael Hines (Brunelli Group), won First Place in Science: Statistical and Mathematical Modeling in the College of Arts & Sciences Chemistry & Biochemistry competition.
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CBE also had a great showing at the 2019 Hayes Graduate Research Forum. Only five prizes were awarded for the Poster Competition in Engineering, and chemical engineering graduate students won four of the five prizes.
The winning posters were completed by:
Deven Baser, First Place (Fan Group)
Deeksha Jain, 2nd Place (Ozkan Group)
Kayane Dingilian, Honorable Mention (Wyslouzil Group)
James Kim, Honorable Mention (Chalmers Group).
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In an external competition, CBE PhD student Pengfei Jiang (Swindle-Reilly Group) won the STAR (Student Travel Achievement Recognition) award from the Society for Biomaterials for her work on ocular drug delivery. Jiang will present her research, "Injectable Biodegradable Bi-layered Capsule for Sustainable Delivery of Protein Therapeutics," at the Society for Biomaterials annual meeting in April.
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Earlier this semester, two undergraduates from Andy Maxson's class successfully competed in the final round of the venture capitalist-style ENGIE Smart Campus Challenge. Charles (Erik) Moritz and Patrick Henson were part of the Surfactant Addition Team that won $10,000 in support of their project offering a potential solution to a campus sutainability problem. Their proposal was to apply drag reduction principles to Ohio State's chilled water air conditioning system by adding an oil to Ohio State’s East Regional Chilled Water Plant to see whether it could increase the energy efficiency and functionality of the plant’s chilled water loops.
Funds for the Smart Campus Challenge ($190,000 overall) came from ENGIE, a European company that seeks to develop future collaborations with innovative project leaders in pursuit of a society that is more energy-efficient and less dependent on nuclear energy and fossil fuels while offering more efficient services to its customers. This June, the team winning first place will have an opportunity to travel to Engie's Innovation Week in Paris, France, where innovators and their solutions can connect with the stakeholders who need them the most. Read more about the Smart Campus Challenge.
Congratulations to all!
