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Carbon Foam: The Key Ingredient of a Better Battery?
Michigan Tech researchers have incorporated a novel material on the battery side to make an even better asymmetric capacitor.
Carbon foam has advantages over nickel. “It’s lighter and cheaper, so we thought maybe we could use it as a scaffold, filling its holes with nickel oxyhydroxide,” said Tony Rogers, associate professor of chemical engineering.
And the Michigan Tech asymmetric capacitor work was also mentioned on CNBC |
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Michigan Tech to Dedicate New Solar Energy Research Center
The new facility will provide opportunities for undergraduate work, such as the Alternative Fuels Group Enterprise will correlate the solar cells’ output with local weather conditions. |
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From Oil Spills to Toxic Waste: The Polymer Solution
Professor Gerard Caneba is developing next-generation chemicals from vinyl acetate polymers that could be used to clean up oil spills and disperse spilled oil. With researchers from Gulf Coast universities, he has been working to obtain funds to investigate this family of polymer surfactants. |
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MSGC Awards Announced
Faculty and students have received awards totaling $72,500 through the Michigan Space Grant Consortium (MSGC), sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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Department of Chemical Engineering Convocation April 6, 2 pm, MUB; Keynote speaker: Dr. Gregg A. Zank,
Chief Technology Officer,
Senior Vice President,
Executive Director of Science
& Technology,
Dow Corning Corporation
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AIChE North Central Regional Conference; Pictures and Video, April 8 and 9th, 2011; Chem-E Car, Michigan Tech wins 2nd Place, Also AIChE Jeopardy and Paper Competition |
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Advanced
Sustainable
Iron & Steel Making
Center
The ASISC ANNUAL MEETING, August 1-3, 2011, will
cover all issues related to advanced
sustainable iron and steel making,
including recent developments in
current and improved technologies. Find out more about ASISC ANNUAL MEETING |
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Students Build CO2 Scrubber
Dr. Komar Kawatra couldn't be prouder of the students on his research team. "We have developed a CO2 scrubber," he says. "It was designed at Michigan Tech and built at Michigan Tech by Michigan Tech students." |
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Paintings by Tomas Co at Reflection Gallery in March
Dr. Tomas Co of the Chemical Engineering department has exhibit of paintings at The Finlandia University Reflection Gallery, Hancock, from March 1 to March 31, 2011. |
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Woman Chemical Engineering Student Selected for Navy Submarine Training
Samantha Neirby is about to go where mostly men have gone before. The US Navy has chosen Neirby - who is finishing her chemical engineering degree this spring at Michigan Technological University - to train to serve on a nuclear submarine. |
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Medical Diagnostics
Medical diagnosis often relies on the recognition of an initial symptom followed
by expensive and time-consuming laboratory procedures that are
outsourced to special analytical laboratories. Also featured in Michigan Tech Research magazine: "A Lab in Your Pocket" |
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Beyond Nanotubes
A unique form of carbon, graphene is the basic structural element of graphite.
Essentially a single atom-thick honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a sheet of
graphene can be rolled into 2D nanotubes or stacked into 3D graphite. |
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Slick Trick
Assume for the sake of argument that you wanted to mop up a really, really big oil spill. Say it’s in a massive body of water teeming with life that abuts hundreds of miles of white-sand beaches and sensitive wetlands. What would you look for in a detergent? |
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MTU Chemical Engineering at the AIChE ANNUAL MEETING in Salt Lake City |
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Professor Dan Crowl Earns Merit Award from the Mary Kay O'Connor Process
Safety Center at Texas A&M. |
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Cancer nanotechnology
Targeting and eradicating tumor cells
with nanomaterials
Many cancer treatments have their own sets of risks and consequences.
Among those is chemotherapy, which introduces
poisons or toxins into the body to damage, shrink, or kill cancerous
cells. Unfortunately, chemotherapy also can destroy healthy cells, leaving
the patient with serious, unpleasant side effects |
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Wood to Wheels
Creating biofuels from forest
resources
Cellulose is the most common form of organic
material on earth, yet natural agents such as
enzymes and microorganisms find cellulose difficult to
convert to biofuels. |
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Gulf Oil Spill Experts from Michigan Tech
Engineers, scientists and other experts from Michigan Technological University stand ready to help answer your questions about the Gulf oil spill. |
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Convocation
Department of Chemical Engineering 2009-2010 Awards Convocation, April 7, 2010, Keynote speaker was Dr. Maureen L. Johnson, Exploration & Production Vice President Operations Technology, Operating Management System, Continuous Improvement and Activity Planning at
BP America Inc. |
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The Chem-E Car is a chance for undergraduates in chemical engineering to experience using what they've learned in classes in a real-world situation. We use the techniques learned in Kinetics, Transport, Process Control, and even Introduction to Engineering. Mores photos and links |
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Nicole VanBelle, a chemical engineering major from Kentwood, Mich., is one of the first winners of the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) students. |
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Professor Ching-An Peng Reception as the
James and Lorna Mack Endowed Chair in Chemical Engineering |
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Sean Clancey Earns 2009 Distinguished Teaching Award
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David Shonnard a Partner in Three Major Biofuel Projects
David Shonnard, the Robbins Chair Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University, will be conducting just such cradle-to-grave, life cycle analyses for two major alternative-energy projects recently funded by the US Department of Energy. They are among 19 industry-led projects receiving grants totaling $564 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, commonly known as federal stimulus funds. Shonnard will also be involved in a third DOE-funded project, working to turn wastewater pollutants into ethanol. See previous story: Michigan Tech Shares Funding for A New Biofuel Research Center |
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Chemical Engineering Grads Excel in National Design Competition |
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Michael Mullins: Center for Fundamental and Applied Research in Nanostructured and Lightweight Materials
Michael Mullins is the director of Michigan Tech’s Center for Fundamental and Applied Research in Nanostructured and Lightweight Materials. The Center was recently awarded $1.23 million in continuing funding from the US Department of Energy, bringing its total DOE support to nearly $3 million. |
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Vacationing with Nuclear Reactors
Amanda Taylor, a sophomore in chemical engineering from Romeo, Mich., interned at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in Oak Ridge, Tenn., for ten weeks during the summer semester. Read More in another article |
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James and Lorna Mack Endowed Chair
The Department of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Tech
is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Ching-An Peng
as the first holder of the James and Lorna Mack Endowed Chair. Reception will be held August 6th (PDF) |
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Biofuel for Jets Could Cut Carbon Emissions Over 80 Percent David Shonnard, Robbins Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering, conducted an analysis of jet fuel made from camelina oil to measure its carbon dioxide emissions over the course of its life cycle, from planting to tailpipe. Dr Shonnard has also received $321,138 from American Process Inc. for "C5 Fermentation Improvement Project: An MTU Subcontract to Alpina Prototype Biorefinery Proposal to MEDC." Dr. Shonnard has received $274,837 from Frontier Renewable Resources for a multiple-year project, "Project 3 Frontier Renewable Resources Center of Energy Excellence: Improving Forest Feedstock Harvesting, Processing and Hauling Efficiencies."
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New Interdisciplinary Minor in Hydrogen Technology
Beginning in the fall semester of the 2009-2010 academic year, Michigan Technological University will offer an Interdisciplinary Minor in Hydrogen Technology.
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Chemical
Engineering Student Awards
Convocation 2009 |
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Students earn SME Awards |
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Robert, Rex and Paul Marshall, brothers and business partners, have given an estate gift of funds of nearly $700,000 to support the Marshall Family Endowed Scholarship Fund for engineering students who demonstrate financial need and scholastic achievement.
Robert Marshall earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Michigan Tech in 1942 and founded the Aluminum Supply Company in Detroit in 1948 |
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Holly Hillberg, Chemical Engineering '83, the chief technology officer and vice president of Carestream Health, Inc. received the 2009 ATHENA Award at the 23rd annual ATHENA Awards
luncheon Jan. 22. |
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Komar Kawatra receives funding for a National Science Foundation "Advanced Sustainable Iron & Steel Making Center."
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Professor Michael Mullins has received $1,230,000 from the US Department of Energy for an 18-month project, "Center for Fundamental and Applied Research in Nanostructured and Lightweight Materials." |
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Minors for Chemical Engineers...AND OTHERS!
Getting a minor in an academic subject is very common at uni-versities and at Tech, but up until recently, there were no minors associated with MTU’s Department of Chemical Engi-neering. This is no longer the case since Tech ChemE inaugurated three minors |
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Chemical
Engineering Grads Head List of Salary Offers In
a job market that is seeing higher starting salary offers
to new college graduates, engineering majors can expect
to see the highest offers, on average, according to
a report by the National Association of Colleges and
Employers (NACE). Link to article |
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Michigan Tech's Unit Operations Lab, a chemical processing facility located right on campus, will remain among the nation's best, thanks to a significant donation from Dow Corning Corporation. |
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New Research Center for Process Analysis and Diagnostics |
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