Dr. Lee Blaney is Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering and Associate Director of Sustainability Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He has established a vibrant research program focused on (1) development of innovative technologies for resource recovery from agricultural and municipal waste and (2) the occurrence, fate, transport, and toxicity of contaminants of emerging concern in natural and engineered systems. He is the recipient of the Maryland Outstanding Young Engineer Award and the NSF Career Award.Read more
Dr. Mai Uibu received her PhD degree in Chemical and Materials Technology (thesis title “Abatement of CO2 emissions in Estonian oil shale-based power production”) in 2008 from Tallinn University of Technology. Her research interests include the basics of new utilization processes for inorganic wastes, more specifically the abatement of CO2 emissions and production of PCC-type filler material on the basis of oil shale combustion wastes. Current projects include “ CLEAN clinKER production by Calcium looping process” (1.10.2017−30.09.2021, funded by Horizon 2020 Programme), “Climate change...Read more
Joan C. Williams is a Hastings Foundation Chair and Founding Director of the Center for WorkLife Law at University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She has authored 11 books and 115 academic articles and book chapters, and ranks among the top 10 scholars in her field. She lectures widely. Her work has been covered in outlets as diverse as the Harvard Business Review, Oprah Magazine, Human Resource Executive, Jezebel, and the Yale Law Journal. Williams holds an honorary PhD from Utrecht University in the Netherlands for her research on workplace bias, received the Distinguished...Read more
Martha Grover is a Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech, and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech...Read more
CAST Best Undergraduate Student Poster Award Winners First place ($100): Theodore Champ, University of Colorado Boulder, “Testing of Nitride Stability of Environmental Barrier Coating Materials for Application in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Engines” Second place ($50): Colette Schissel, Cornell...Read more
Ashutosh Kumar Dubey is an Assistant Professor and Ramanujan Fellow in the Department of Ceramic Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, UP, India. His research interests includes External electric field and surface charge mediated biocompatibility evaluation of electro-bioceramics, piezoelectric tougheneing of bioceramics, Functionally graded materials, Nanoporous bio-ceramics, Orthopedic biomaterials, Analytical computation. As recognition of his research work, he received various prestigious awards/fellowships such as Young Scientist Award by Indian Science...Read more
Developed by the Core R&D Reaction Engineering group of Dow and designed for chemists and engineers who operate or use data from laboratory reactors, this course contains fundamental reaction...
