Recent News and Announcements - Updated 11/16/09
Announcements |
Thursday, November 26 - Friday, November 27, 2009 Thanksgiving Holiday No classes will be held and all administrative offices will be closed. Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday, November 1. Remember to turn your clocks back one hour. As you set your clocks, watches and automatic light timers, the end of Daylight Savings is an excellent time to change the batteries in smoke and carbon monoxide detectors throughout your home. For more info on Daylight Savings Time, click here. October 29, 2009 http://www.engr.utk.edu/ed/index.html The Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Annual Fall Picnic When: Saturday, October 24, 2009, 1:30 p.m. It's time for the CBE department's annual Fall Picnic; an enjoyable get-together for all the graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and staff! Family members, girlfriends, boyfriends and significant others are also welcome! |
Recent News |
October 1, 2009 - Dr. Bamin Khomami, professor and head of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was elected to the American Physical Society (APS) Fellowship during its Sept. 2009 meeting. He was nominated by the Division of Fluid Dynamics. Election to Fellowship in the APS is limited to no more than one half of one percent of the membership. The citation, which appears on Khomami's Fellowship Certificate, reads as follows: "For his insightful application of novel numerical methods, molecular modeling and experiments toward the physical understanding of elastic fluid flows including discovering and explaining novel aspects of their purely elastic and thermomechanical instability." Dr. Khomami's name and Fellowship citation, as well as the others elected to Fellowship this year, will be published in the March 2010 issue of APS News. September 28, 2009 - A retirement dinner was held at 6:00 p.m. at the Copper Cellar restaurant on Cumberland Avenue for Dr. Simioan Petrovan, research associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, who will retire on October 10, 2009. Good luck, Dr. Petrovan, and thank you for your years of service to Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering! April 17, 2009 - Dr. John Prados, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been awarded the 2009 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Benjamin Garver Lamme Award. The Benjamin Garver Lamme Award is bestowed upon a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to the art of teaching, contributions to research and technical literature and achievements that contribute to the advancement of the profession of engineering college administration. Dr. Prados received a nomination with supporting references. The award—a gold medal and certificate—will be presented to Dr. Prados during the awards banquet that will conclude the ASEE’s Annual Conference and Exposition on June 17 in Austin, Texas. April 6, 2009 - The Chancellor's Honors Banquet is held each spring to recognize students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of Tennessee for their extraordinary achievements. The 2009 ceremony was held April 6 at the University Center. More than 200 students, faculty, staff, and organizations were honored. Two members of the CBE faculty were award recipients at the 2009 banquet. Dr. Brian Edwards received an award for Excellent in Advising, and Dr. Paul Frymier received an award for Excellence in Teaching. April 3-5, 2009 - Twelve students from the University of Tennessee's Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department attended the spring student meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Southern Regional Conference at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. The students were accompanied by faculty members Dr. David Keffer and Dr. Paul Frymier. Senior undergraduate student Christina Karni presented a poster entitled "Prediction of Water and Mean Ionic Activity Coefficients of Aqueous HNO3 Solutions" (UTK faculty advisor, Dr. Robert Counce). A team of six students, Amanda Matthews (team captain), Michael Bright, Arnold Bunch, Jeff Edlund, Eugene Halford, and Kevin Pittman, competed in the "ChemE Car" Competition (UTK faculty advisor, Dr. Paul Frymier). The objective of the competition was to carry a specified weight in a vehicle powered by a chemical reaction using a chemical reaction to time the run to finish as close as possible to a specified distance mark. The team's entry, "Spellbound" won second place out of 11 other vehicles from schools in the southeast, stopping 3.15 inches from the line after traveling 70 feet carrying a specified 230 gram load. Spring 2009 - Lauren Johnson, senior in Chemical Engineering, spent spring semester of 2009 in Finland. She was studying Chemical Engineering at Abo Akademi in the city of Turku. Click here to read about Lauren's adventures on her study abroad in Finland. January 2009 - Dr. Stephen Paddison, associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, recently co-edited a published book, Device and Materials Modeling in PEM Fuel Cells, with Prof. Keith Promislow of the Mathematics Department at Michigan State University. Proton membrane exchange (PEM) fuel cell technologies are an emerging area, and this book brings together two groups that have largely worked independently of each: the device modeling community and the materials modeling community. The book provides a survey (with significant depth) of virtually all the computational and modeling work in both areas with purpose of stimulating cross-fertilization and collaboration amongst the individuals working in the field of PEM fuel cells. Fall 2008 - New Faculty Member Dr. Ramki Kalyanaraman The new joint associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) is excited about the opportunity to increase multi-disciplinary research projects in both academic units. [READ MORE]
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