The Awards Ceremony for the 2017 Student Conference in Minneapolis acknowledged notable achievements of AIChE student members, recognizing winners of awards, scholarships, and competitions.
International Student Chapter Leadership Development Travel Grant
Six international student chapter leaders who are attending the student conference as travel grant recipients of the International Student Chapter Leadership Development Travel Grant were recognized. Travel Grants are awarded through the AIChE Foundation's Doing a World of Good Campaign.
Travel grant recipients are:
- Camila Alejandra Romero Beltran, Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Bogotá, Colombia
- Rabia Selin Bostancı, Koç University, Turkey
- Qistina Binti Mohamed, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Malaysia
- Ahmad Yousry Muhmmad Elshhat, Cairo University, Egypt
- Viraj Phatarphod, Vellore Institute of Technology, India
- Xu Ziang, Tianjin University, China
Student Paper Competition
Seven students whose work won at the regional level in the spring were recognized as finalists in this year's Student Paper Competition, which will take place on Monday, October 30 from 8:30-11:30am.
- Anna Condacse, Oklahoma State University
- Jayson D. Cosgrove, Rowan University
- Yifan Dai, Case Western Reserve University
- Conner C. Earl, Brigham Young University
- Katarina Guzman, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Syed H. Kamal, The University of British Columbia
- Cyril Lukianov, Georgia Institute of Technology
Student Design Competition
This year’s design competition challenge was titled “Manufacturing Facility for Nylon Six-Six,” and a team of judges selected the top solutions in both individual and team categories. The Student Design Competition winners will present their solutions at a session on Monday, October 30, morning from 8:30-10:30 a.m. in Room 103F of the Minneapolis Convention Center.
Individual
- Eric Monville, Michigan State University and Adam McNeeley, University of Cincinnati — honorable mention
- Oanh Nguyen of Trine University — 1st place
Team
In the team category, two teams tied for the William A. Cunningham Award for first place. The teams were:
- Lauren Austin, Jessica Catlin, Madeline Ley, and Yen Nguyen of Oklahoma State University
- Amanda Chew-Stebbins, Samantha Bidlack, and Rachel Greene of University of Utah
SAChE Design Awards
Each year SAChE awards prizes to those whose submissions to AIChE's Student Design Competition best apply appropriate priciples and applications of chemical process safety.
Individual (Walter Howard Award)
- Kevin Mercks of Trine University
Team (Jack Wehman Award)
- Vincent LaPelusa, Will Dougherty, and Carson Hemphill of University of Iowa
The Ted Ventrone, Ephraim Scheier & Walt Silowska Award
Individual
- Kevin Mercks of Trine University
- Oanh Nguyen of Trine University
Team
- Austin McKee, Nicole Loch, Carrie Lindberg and Andrea Diaz of University of Iowa
- Vincent LaPelusa, Will Dougherty, and Carson Hemphill of University of Iowa
ChemE Jeopardy
- University of Florida — third place
- University of Texas, Austin — second place
- University of California, Berkeley — first place
To see full coverage of the competition and more photos of winners, see this post.
Awards from ScaleUp sponsors
Awards from ScaleUp Sponsors went to the following students.
Julia Sawaya of University of California, Berkeley, and Benjamin Valley of Wayne State University won Chevron's ScaleUp Award.
Brandon Kim of University of California, Berkeley, won Corning’s ScaleUp award for an essay submission on the role of chemical engineers in ensuring globally responsible and sustainable development of both economy and society.
Austin Fehr of University of Tulsa received Dow’s ScaleUp award for an essay submission on the implementation of new technologies that will have the greatest impact upon chemical engineering.
Ali Alkarni of Washington State University and Michael Doane of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, were awarded UOP's ScaleUp Award for their essay submissions on their predictions for the 2035 daily commute and the role of chemical engineers in the personal mobility revolution.
Youth Council on Sustainable Science and Technology Award
This year's Youth Council on Sustainable Science and Technology (YCOSST) P3 Award went to the John Brown University team for their work on Small Scale Shock-Proof Biogas Digesters. The Youth Council On Sustainable Science and Technology Award of $1000 is presented annually by AIChE'ss Institute For Sustainability to the competing EPA “People, Prosperity and the Planet” P3 team whose project best employs sustainable practices, interdisciplinary collaborations, engineering principles, and youth involvement.
John J. McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship
The thirteenth John J. McKetta Scholarship Award, sponsored by The Dekker Foundation went to Rachel Scroggins of North Carolina State University.
The $5,000 scholarship is presented to an incoming senior or junior chemical engineering student who is planning a career in the chemical process industries. In addition to demonstrated academic excellence, the scholarship nominee should show leadership in AIChE student chapter activities and other university activities. Learn more about this award.
Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship Awards
The Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship Award of $1,000 is given to chemical engineering students for their outstanding academic achievement and involvement in student chapter activities. The following 15 students were recognized:
- Tarique Ahmad, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Kartik Bomb, VIT University
- Silvia Colussi-Pelaez, Oregon State University
- Kristen Culbertson, University of Dayton
Matthew Davenport, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology - Joelle Khouri, Pennsylvania State University
- Samuel Locke, University of Cincinnati
- Paradorn Rummaneethorn, Princeton University
- Tyler Roberts, University of Delaware
- Lindsay Seeley, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Malay Shah, North Carolina State University
- Garrett Strong, Brigham Young University
- James Wortman, Michigan State University
- Kevin Zhang, Rice University
- Elizabeth Zimmerman, University of Iowa
Engineers Without Borders Grant
The 2017 AIChE Engineers Without Borders Grant went to students from two universities:
- Jennifer Skoog and Tom D’Auria, University of Connecticut
- Donald Gross and Christopher Royal, University of Tulsa
This grant will provide support for UConn’s program to improve an irrigation network for the agricultural community of Wereta Zuria Kebele in Ethiopia and assist in funding TU’s efforts to establish eco-latrines in Machacamarca, Bolivia.
The Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award
The Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award is presented to one student in each student chapter for the highest scholastic grade point average during his or her freshman and sophomore years. This year more than 70 students earned the prize. In addition, more than 60 Freshman Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. Recipients of this award are individuals from a student chapter who have been most active in freshman year.
Outstanding Student Chapter Advisor Award
This award recognizes an individual's outstanding service and leadership in guiding the activities of an AIChE student chapter in accordance with AIChE principles. This year the honor went to Dr. J. Zach Hilt from the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
Outstanding Student Chapter Award
This year 25 Chapters received the Outstanding Student Chapter Award.
- American University of Beirut
- American University of Sharjah
- Brigham Young University, which has reached the milestone of being an Outstanding Student Chapter for five consecutive years.
- Georgia Institute of Technology, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 17th consecutive year.
- Mississippi State University
- Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Nazarbayev University
- New Jersey Institute of Technology
- North Carolina State University, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 8th consecutive year.
- Purdue University
- Rowan University, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 3rd consecutive year.
- Suez University
- The Pennsylvania State University
- The University of Iowa, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 13th consecutive year.
- Tianjin University
- Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Medellín
- University of California-Berkeley, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 3rd consecutive year.
- University of Florida
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Kentucky, Lexington
- University of Kentucky, Paducah, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 16th consecutive year.
- University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 8th consecutive year.
- University of South Florida, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 6th consecutive year.
- University of Virginia, which is receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the 3rd consecutive year.
- Vellore Institute of Technology
See photos of Student Chapter Winners
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