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Allan Carmichael (Class of 2004) won the 2004 outstanding Chemical Engineering Senior Award from the Northern California Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
April 10, 2003: The design team of Catie Heine, Sage Hiibel, Mike Matheus, and Dale Sperlin (all in the B.S.Ch.E. Class of 2003) won second place at the WERC International Environmental Design Competition at Las Cruces, New Mexico, today for their project "Low Energy Seawater Desalination System." The competition included a written design report, an oral presentation, a poster presentation, and a bench-scale demonstration. The team won an expense-paid trip to Germany this June to present their work in Europe.
March 29, 2003, Riverside California: At the 2003 Western Regional Student Conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, UNR students won awards in all 3 of the competitions, besting the other participating universities (BYU, Cal Poly, UC Berkeley, Cal State Long Beach, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, and USC). Jake Elkins, Alissa Tibesar, Allan Carmichael, Tyson Harris, and Janie Ha won first place for their oral presentation "Characterization of Ferrofluids for Tumor Embolization." That same student team won second place for their design project poster. The team of Michael Fears, Karen Parian, Bronson Duck, Dan Hickman, and Ivan Gantan won first place in the Chem-E-Car competition. Both teams won berths in their respective categories at the national competitions to be held in San Francisco in November.
On Sunday, November 3, 2002, the UNR Chem-E-Car Team "Pocket Rocket" won fourth place in a very competitive field of 29 pre-qualified teams at the AIChE National Competition in Indianapolis. Congratulations to the team of Karen Parian, Bronson Duck, Michael Fears, Josh Waldo-Speth, and Ivan Gantan.
Alissa Tibesar (Class of 2003) won the 2002 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship Award. Each year, only 15 chemical engineering students worldwide are awarded this prestigious scholarship. Alissa has been recognized as being in the top 0.1% of chemical engineering students nation-wide.
The UNR entry in the National Chem-E-Car Competition won third place in a very close pack at the Reno Hilton, November 4, 2001. The team designed a rocket powered car that they named BOB. (Ballistic or Bust) and competed against teams from 24 universities. The team members are: Michael Fears, Bronson Duck, Sage Hiibel, Andrew Katz, Cathy Sue McMurray, Ivan Gantan, Francisco Vega, and Wyatt Robards. For the story, click here .
Kavitha Elugula (M.S.Ch.E. student) won third place in the Environmental Division of the Student Poster Session at the AIChE Annual Meeting, November 5, 2001. Her poster was "Operation of the CerOx Process in the University of Nevada's Hazardous Waste Management Program
Jesse Murray (Class of 2002) won the 2001 Donald F. & Mildred Topp Othmer National Scholarship Award. Each year, only 15 chemical engineering students worldwide are awarded this prestigious scholarship. It comes as no surprise that Jesse is in the top 0.1% of chemical engineering students nation-wide.
On Friday, April 20, 2001, the team of Carlos Ledon, Tom Brokaw, and Bryce Jones (B.S.Ch.E. '01) won First Place at the Regional Student Paper Competition of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, held in Bozeman, Montana. Carlos gave the paper about their design project, "Lifetime Prediction of Natural Rubber: Reverse Time-Temperature Superposition and Cumulative Damage Theory."
On Thursday, April 12, 2001, the design team of Wayne Burton, Siu Cheng, Conrad Peterson, and Brian Petty (B.S.Ch.E. '01) won Second Place in the WERC International Environmental Engineering Design Competition in Las Cruces, New Mexico, for their project "Single Shell Underground Tank Solid Waste Remediation."
On Monday, November 13, 2000, Bryce Jones (B.S.Ch.E. '01) won two separate awards for his research poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in Los Angeles. Bryce presented the research he completed at the Argonne National Laboratory last summer. His awards were third place in the Catalysis & Reaction Engineering category and first place in the Green Engineering category.
On Monday, November 13, 2000, Vladan Jankovic (B.S.Ch.E. '01) won third place in the Engineering Sciences & Fundamentals category for his research poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in Los Angeles. Vladan presented the research he performed last summer on supercritical fluids in Dr. Baglin's laboratory.
On Sunday, November 12, 2000, the UNR Chem-E-Car team won first place for their poster at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers in Los Angeles. Their car, known affectionately as the "Geriatric Turtle," was powered by a fuel cell.
On Sunday, April 9, 2000, three UNR Chemical Engineering Seniors won First Place for their design project "Methanol Steam Reforming" at the 2000 AIChE Western Regional Student Conference, held at UCLA. Vladan Jankovic, Matthew Johannson, and Michael Coleman studied the thermodynamics, kinetics, and design of a process to produce hydrogen for fuel-cell applications.
On Sunday, October 31, 1999, five UNR Chemical Engineering seniors won Second Place in the inaugural "Autonomous Vehicle Competition," at the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, in Dallas. (See full story)
Chemical Engineering seniors from the University of Nevada, Reno, won two awards at an international environmental engineering design competition held at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, April 12-15, 1999. This competition, sponsored by the Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) included more than 40 university teams from around the country and several foreign nations. ( See full story. )
Five Chemical Engineering seniors from the University of Nevada, Reno, won First Prize for "Best Demonstration of the Industrial Process" at an international environmental engineering design competition held at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, April 14-17, 1998, for their design of a process to clean up mining wastes. This competition, sponsored by the Waste-Management Education and Research Consortium (WERC) included more than 30 university teams from around the country. ( See full story. )
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