C&PE NEWSDepartment of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Annual Newsletter

Spring 2017

Chair’s Message2

Message from the Chair It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the latest newsletter from the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. This is an exciting time for Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Kansas! Over the last several years we have seen completion of major new facilities for chemical and petroleum engineering research and teaching. We are major beneficiaries of the multi-million dollar Building on Excellence program which has provided us with new high-tech classrooms, teaching and research laboratories and additional professors. The new buildings are truly interdisciplinary, housing research groups from chemical and petroleum, mechanical, civil, environmental, and aerospace engineering who are working together in a number of teams. In addition to new teaching and research facilities, C&PE has a new extensive laboratory for teaching chemical engineering unit operations. Towards the end of 2017 the new Earth, Energy and Environment Center building will open, housing new teaching and research laboratories, and faculty space for Petroleum Engineering. The demand for places in our two undergraduate programs continues to be very high. Our current undergraduate count amounts to more than 600. Over 30% of our undergraduate cohort are women. In fall 2016 we were delighted to welcome three new faculty. Dr. Mark Shiflett joined us from DuPont as a University Foundation Distinguished Professor in Chemical Engineering. In the Petroleum Engineering area we were also very pleased to welcome Dr. Shahin Negahban who joined us from BP as the new Director of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Program. Dr. Masoud Kalantari joined us from Occidental as Assistant Professor in Petroleum Engineering. These much-welcomed additions to our faculty take the number of Professors in C&PE to 26.

The last year has been an excellent one for many of our faculty and students with significant achievements by many students and colleagues which, to name but a few include the following: Undergraduates, Annie Lynn and Kevin Tenny received Goldwater scholarships earlier this year. Distinguished Professor Bala Subramaniam was named an ACS-IEC Division Fellow. Dr. Subramaniam and Dr. RV Chaudhari were both admitted as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Cory Berkland was admitted as a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.

We have been greatly appreciative of all the support we have received both from industry, advisory board members and alumni which have made these new developments possible.

Finally, if you are interested in seeing the department or would like further information, I would be delighted to hear from you by phone or e-mail. If you want to set up a campus visit, please contact the KU Visitor Center at 785-864-3911 or our C&PE General Office at 785-864-4965.

Sincerely,

Laurence R Weatherley PhDChair of Chemical and Petroleum Chemical EngineeringAlbert P Learned Distinguished ProfessorUniversity of Kansas

Dr. Laurence R. WeatherleyApril 2017

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On the cover: (left to right) Undergraduate student Jeanie Salash working with the biomaterials 3D printer. Potter’s Lake and KU’s campanile, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. An exterior view of the LEEP2 building. Assistant Professor Arghya Paul assists two students during their lab. Equipment used in C&PE’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis. The XEMIS Gravimetric Microbalance, developed by Distinguished Foundation Professor Mark Shiflett and his laboratory. Photos by Cody Howard and/or the School of Engineering unless otherwise specified.

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C&PE News is designed by Grace Lamar (galamar@ku.edu) in coordination with the C&PE department.

On the back: (left to right, top to bottom,) Aishik Chakraborty working in Prof. Dhar’s lab. Undergraduates Claudia Sanchez and Kristina Hansen with other KU students at the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition conference in Dubai. Undergraduate Claudia Sanchez with other attendees at Gubkin University’s Oil and Gas Horizons conference. Cynthia Perez presents undergraduate Kristina Hansen with a plaque at the Annual Spring Awards Banquet. KU’s campanile at sunset. The Hiden Intelligent Gravimetric Analyzer (IGA), developed by Distinguished Foundation Professor Mark Shiflett and his laboratory. Photos by Cody Howard and/or the School of Engineering.

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Green Catalysis Grant Awarded to Faculty A $450,000 green catalysis grant was awarded to three faculty members in November. Bala Subramaniam, Kevin Leonard, and James Blakemore (from Chemistry) are all associated with this award. This SusChEM division award has a goal of fostering research in sustainable chemistry, engineering, and materials. The team hopes to “develop a first-of-its-kind apparatus that combines traditional electrodes with a reactor that can operate under pressure.”

Prof. Kevin Leonard Receives Prestigious Research Award In May, Assistant Professor Kevin Leonard was honored with the Army Research Office’s “Young Investigators Award.” This prestigious award includes a research grant to further his electrochemical research and help The Leonard Lab achieve its various goals. Dr. Leonard was also recently selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry to be one of their “Emerging Investigators for 2017.” Along with having his paper published in their journal, his research is being highlighted along with the other Emerging Investigators.

Prof. Mark Shiflett receives National Award Distinguished Foundation Professor and AIChE Technical Fellow Mark B. Shiflett received an Industrial Research and Development award at the AIChE conference in November. The award recognizes several of Shiflett’s pioneering discoveries at DuPont where he was a Technical Fellow for more than 20 years before joining KU in August. Shiflett’s work has led to non-ozone depleting refrigerants with revenues in excess of one billion dollars, as well as new applications with ionic liquids and an environmentally friendly process for making highly durable grades of titanium dioxide. He was also recognized for his valuable efforts mentoring and educating chemical engineers.

Prof. Raghunath Chaudhari named Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors In December, Raghunath Chaudhari, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor, was named a Fellow of the NAI in recognition of his innovative work in catalysis, reaction engineering, multiphase reactors and kinetic modeling. His research has led to many discoveries including a smart, energy-efficient method for turning plant sugars into the building blocks for plastics, paints, fibers and many other everyday items. Chaudhari has helped bring in nearly $14 million in external research funding. He currently serves as the deputy director for KU’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, where he leads several projects aimed at inventing cleaner, safer, economically viable technologies for fuels and chemicals. His prolific research has generated 282 publications, three books and 71 patents.

Prof. Masoud Kalantari Awarded Software Grant Assistant Professor Amirmasound (Masoud) Kalantari-Dahaghi’s research lab, Computational Earth Science and Smart Analytics Lab (CESSAL), received a $5,350,000 in-kind software gift from KAPPA, Rock and Fluid Dynamics and Lloyd’s Register. KAPPA is a leading petroleum engineering software company that offers industry standard integrated software platform (KAPPA Workstation) for the analysis of dynamic data. It includes modules for Pressure Transient Analysis (Saphir NL), Rate Transient Analysis (Topaze NL), full field numerical modeling (Rubis) and Formation Testing (Azurite). The freestanding Production Logging (Emeraude) and Field Performance Analysis software (Citrine) (Donation size: $3,000,000) Rock Flow Dynamics (RFD) offers the next generation of advanced black oil, compositional and thermal numerical simulators (tNavigator) with a record breaking parallel supercomputing engine (Donation size: $2,250,000) Lloyd’s Register has provided us with IP package, which is an industry standard for petrophysical analysis (Donation size: $100,000). This gift will be a wonderful boost for Dr. Kalantari and his research group in the CESSAL lab.

FACULTY NEWS & UPDATES

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Undergraduate Annie Lynn receives an Astronomical Award Not many college students can say they’ve been presented an award by two former NASA astronauts. Then again, not many students can say they’re making an impact in their respective fields before receiving their undergraduate diploma. Recent graduate Annie Lynn of Overland Park received the scholarship for her research and work in the field of chemical engineering. Her award was presented to her by former astronaut Sam Gemar who was a crew member on three different NASA missions. SPE Wins National Competition

Congratulations to our Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Student Chapter who earned 4th place at the National PetroBowl Competition out of 32 teams in February. This qualifies them to compete in the international competition at the SPE ATCE in San Antonio, Texas this fall.

Undergraduate Kristina Hansen Places First at Chinese Competition Senior Kristina Hansen, who graduated this May, won first prize in the paper contest at the Future Petroleum Engineering Forum held in China over last summer. She presented research that she worked on under Prof. Reza Barati’s supervision about modeling of lateral jetting simulation.

CEBC Gains Donated Library of Materials The DuPont Company and Dr. David Corbin donated in November a library of microporous materials containing over 3,000 unique zeolites, carbons and ion-exchange resins to be housed at KU’s Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC). Many of these materials are commonly used as commercial adsorbents and catalysts for chemical processes. Access to this library gives the CEBC a unique resource for a variety of chemical catalysis and separation projects.

Graduate Student Emily Li Receives Kokes Award Congratulations to graduate student Emily (Yuting) Li for being awarded the 2017 Kokes Student Award at the 25th North American Catalysts Society (NACS) National Conference. About this award, Dr. Franklin (Feng) Tao, her research advisor, stated, “She will receive the certificate of this award on the meeting in this June at Denver and she has been offered with free registration and free hotel accommodation to attend the main catalysis meeting of North American. Yuting is the third student of our group after Shiran (2013) and Luan (2015) who received this award. I am happy to know that her hard work has been acknowledged by North American Catalysis Meeting.” Dr. Tao is committed to nominating her for future awards and supporting her future successes.

Graduate Student Regis Dowd, Jr. Gives a Rare Research Presentation Regis Dowd, Jr., Dr. Trung Van Nguyen’s graduate student, gave an invited Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) presentation entitled “Engineering the Ionic Polymer Phase Surface Properties of a PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer” at the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on Fuel Cells on August 7th at Stone Hill College, Easton, MA, USA. This was a rare invitation for a graduate student. More information on Regis Dowd, Jr. can be found on page 7.

Kristina Hansen, pictured second from right, at the Future Petroleum Engineering ForumPhoto courtesy of Kristina Hansen

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Undergraduate ProgramGraduates

Kevin Tenny just graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. This spring, Tenny was an alternate for the Fulbright Scholarship and a finalist for the Gates-Cambridge Scholarship. He will conduct research for the U.S. DOE at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab this summer. Tenny has previous research experience at Iowa State University, KU, and MIT. He received the first place at the AIChE Poster Competition in the “Fuels, Petrochemicals, and Energy” division this past fall. He is a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar and the recipient of numerous national and university awards.Tenny has seven publications and has given nine technical presentations. Additionally, he has published three poems and written one manuscript. Tenny works for The Kansas Algebra Program as a teaching assistant and tutor here in Lawrence, KS.

KEVIN TENNY

B.S., Chemical Engineering

Claudia is a senior from Muskego, Wisconsin studying Petroleum Engineering with a minor in Geology. She participated in Gubkin University’s Oil and Gas Horizons conference in Moscow last fall and presented a paper in plunger lift applications in unconventional wells. She also qualified for the Regional SPE student paper contest this year and represented KU at the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition conference in Dubai last September. She is the industry liaison for AADE (American Association of Drilling Engineers) and has been part of SPE since her freshman year. In her free time, she enjoys watching KU basketball and soccer games and she is currently part of the staff at KU student housing.

CLAUDIA SANCHEZ

B.S., Petroleum Engineering

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Graduate ProgramGraduates

Regis Dowd, Jr. is a 2012-2017 Self Graduate Fellow who recently received his Ph.D. in Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. After nearly seven years as a U.S. Naval Submarine officer, Dowd’s goal is to work in the field of alternative energy in a way that will positively impact the United States. He holds one patent, twelve publications, and twelve technical presentations. Dowd’s patent, titled “Method of Forming Catalyst Layer by Single Step Infiltration,” was filed in July 2016. He has given presentations in Massachusetts, California, Hawaii, Utah, and Rhode Island as well as abroad in Germany and Australia. While at KU, Dowd has completed a graduate research internship at the U.S. DOE National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

Negar Nazari will receive her M.S. in Petroleum Engineering over the summer. Nazari has two publications and three technical presentations. She completed two internships in Iran, the first at the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and the second at Schelumberger. Nazari’s research focus is to understand the mechanisms of stabilizing the surfactant generated CO2 foam using polyelectrolytes and polyelectrolyte complex nanoparticles (PECNP) prepared in high salinity produced water. Her M.S. project has been funded by the National Science Foundation and a consortium of oil and gas companies. Recently, Nazari was awarded the “Outstanding Master of Science Research” for her research by the C&PE department. Nazari has been accepted into the graduate program at Stanford University.

REGISDOWD, JR.

NEGARNAZARI

Ph.D., Chemical and Petroleum Engineering

M.S., Petroleum Engineering

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Charles Bose Chempakathinal “Application of Nanoparticles as Proppants and Breaker Encapsulating Agents” Adisak Nawik“An Environmentally Friendly Alternative for The Conventional Acids Used in Matrix Acidizing and Acid Fracturing of Carbonate Reservoirs.”Regina Tayong Abubei“Simulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid Cleanup for Partially Degraded Fracturing Fluids in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs”

Regis P. Dowd Jr.“Engineering the Ionic Polymer/Gas Interfacial Properties of a Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer”William (Bill) Gilbert“Peroxidase Catalyzed Degradation of Partially Hydrolyzed Polyacrylamide”David (Dave) Minnick“Solvent Effects on the Dissolution and Precipitation of Cellulosic Biomass from Ionic Liquids”Erik Van Kampen“Controlling Protein Permeability in Hydrogels for Drug Delivery Applications”Masoumeh (Masi) Veisi“Application of Polyelectrolyte Complex Nanoparticles in Increasing the Lifetime of Poly(Vinyl Sulfonate) Scale Inhibitor in Berea Sandstone Rock”

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FACULTY PROFILESReza BaratiAssistant Professor Reza Barati received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Kansas. His research focuses on hydraulic fracturing and acidizing of unconventional reservoirs, characterization and simulation of tight

oil and gas reservoirs, oilfield nanoparticles, CO2 EOR-Mobility and conformance control, and enhanced water-flooding through modifications of injection-brine. Dr. Barati works with his lab, The Unconventional Resources Lab, on research in these areas.

Juan Bravo-SuarezAssistant Professor Juan Bravo-Suarez received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the Industrial University of Santander in Columbia. His topics of research include advanced catalyst synthesis, in situ spectroscopy and spectrokinetics,

reaction kinetics, biomass and alternative feedstock conversion, fuels, and chemicals.

Kyle CamardaAssociate Professor

Kyle Camarda received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Camarda’s research focuses mainly on the use of high-performance computers to solve

optimization problems in product design, process design, and bioinformatics. A second line of research focuses on the use of new computing and networking technology to improve chemical engineering research and communications.

RV ChaudhariDistinguished Professor Raghunath V. Chaudhari received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Bombay University in India. His research interests include multiphase catalysis & reaction engineering, homogeneous & heterogeneous catalysis, kinetic modeling and immobilization of metal complexes.

Prajna DharAssociate Professor Prajna Dhar received her M.S. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from Florida State University. Dr. Dhar’s research focuses on nanoscale fluctuations in lipid bilayers to develop

a thorough understanding of organization of the cellular architecture at the molecular and cellular level and engineer miniature and efficient drug-delivery devices that work synergistically within the human body.

Stevin GehrkeProfessor

Stevin Gehrke is Director of Graduate Studies for Bioengineering. In 2016, he gave several invited lectures at international conferences. In June, he spoke at the Polymer Networks Group in Stockholm, Sweden on the molecular

engineering of glycosaminoglycan hydrogels and on the binding interactions of a specialized class of proteins with chitin nanofibers. He also spoke on chitin-binding proteins in a special session at the International Congress of Entomology in September.

Cory BerklandDistinguished Professor Cory Berkland received both his M.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Illinois. His research interests include uniform biodegradable particles for drug release, the design of

microcapsules utilizing a degradable polymeric shell, and device fabrication techniques for precision tissue scaffolds.

Brandon DeKoskyAssistant Professor

Brandon DeKosky received his Ph.D. in Biochemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. The DeKosky laboratory works to invent and apply advanced NextGen molecular biology techniques to accelerate development of

new human vaccines and therapeutics. The lab has a special focus on understanding highly effective human antibody responses to persistent viral infections (including HIV, EBV, CMV), and in characterizing the antibody response to experimental vaccines.

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FACULTY PROFILESMasoud Kalantari

Assistant Professor

Kevin LeonardAssistant Professor

Kevin Charles Leonard received his M.S. and Ph.D., both in Materials Science, from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Dr. Leonard’s research interests include developing new electrocatalysts based on earth-abundant materials, finding and developing new semiconductor materials and nanoscale morphologies to improve the efficiency of photoelectrochemical reactions related to solar fuel applications, energy storage devices, and scanning electrochemical microscopy.

Laura LiAssistant Professor

Xiaoli (Laura) Li received her M.S. in Petroleum Engineering from the China University of Petroleum and her Ph.D. from the University of Regina in Canada. Dr. Li’s research interests include CO2 enhanced oil recovery and storage, phase behavior of solvents-reservoir fluids systems, multi-phase flow in porous media, anti-scaling and anti-waxing in oilfield, and shale gas reservoir development.

Shahin NegahbanAssociate Professor

Shahin Negahban received his M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in Chemical & Petroleum Engineering from the University of Kansas. Dr. Negahban serves as the Director of the Tertiary Oil Recovery Program (TORP) at KU. Dr. Negahban has been involved in the development of workshops for enhanced oil recovery in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Trung NguyenProfessor

Trung Van Nguyen received his BS/ChE from North Carolina State University and MS/ChE and PhD/ChE from Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. His current research focus is in electrocatalysts, nano-materials, and transport and interfacial phenomena in fuel cells and flow batteries.

Karen NordhedenAssociate Professor

Karen J. Nordheden received her M.S. and Ph.D., both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Illinois (UIUC). Her research interests are in the areas of microfabrication, plasma processing, and catalytic reforming. Dr. Nordheden’s current project involves plasma catalysis of methane and carbon dioxide to produce syngas (H2 and CO) in collaboration with the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC).

Russ OstermannAssociate Professor

Russell Dean Ostermann received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas. His research interests include petroleum transport properties and phase behavior, including projects on viscosity measurement and prediction, reservoir phase behavior measurement and prediction, and enhanced oil recovery. Dr. Ostermann is also interested in biochemical engineering, specifically the production of ethanol by continuous fermentation with alcohol removal from the fermentation broth via extraction.

Arghya PaulAssistant Professor

Arghya Paul received both his M.Sc. in Biotechnology and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University. His research interests include biotherapeutics, engineering biomimetic nanomaterials, regenerative micro-tissue engineering, stem cells & gene therapy, and bioengineered medical devices. Dr. Paul’s research group develops new classes of biofunctional materials, hybrid tissue regeneration matrices and biotransporters using micro and nano-scale technologies for diverse medical applications.

Amirmasoud (Masoud) Kalantari received his M.S. and Ph.D., both in Petroleum & Natural Gas Engineering, from West Virginia University. Dr. Kalantari recently joined C&PE from Occidental and works with his research group, the Computational Earth Science and Smart Analytics Lab (CESSAL).

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FACULTY PROFILES

Marylee SouthardAssociate Professor

Marylee Southard received her M.S. and Ph.D., both in Chemical Engineering, from the University of Kansas. Her research interests are in the design and analysis of chemical transport processes, specifically those

in which bioactive agents are released. Dr. Southard’s ultimate goal in this work is to enhance understanding of biological processes as related to drug therapies, disease states, and pathological conditions.

Bala SubramaniamDistinguished Professor

Bala is Director of the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis, a university/industry research consortium. His teaching/research interests are in

catalysis and reaction engineering. Subramaniam’s research group has 3 undergraduate students, 4 graduate students and 10 postdoctoral fellows with funding from federal/industry sources. Subramaniam is an associate editor of ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering journal and serves on Dow’s Technical Advisory Board. Subramaniam is a Fellow of the AIChE and the National Academy of Inventors.

Franklin TaoAssociate Professor Franklin (Feng) Tao is a Miller associate professor of chemical engineering and chemistry. His research interests include heterogeneous catalysis for transformation of small molecules to chemicals and

fuel feedstock and environmental remediation, and development and applications of in-situ and operando characterization instruments/techniques to studies of catalysis. He has published about 140 papers and is an elected RSC fellow. Dr. Tao is on the advisory/ editorial boards of several journals including Chemical Society Reviews and Catalysis Science & Technology.

Shapour VossoughiProfessor

Shapour Vossoughi received both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta in Canada. Dr. Voussoughi’s research interests include enhanced oil recovery, rheology

of polymeric solutions and gels, kinetics of crude oil combustion, heavy oil recovery and in situ combustion, and oil and gas reservoir simulation.

Paul WillhiteDistinguished Professor

Paul Willhite received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. His research interests include enhanced oil recovery process, transport processes in porous

media, numerical solution of partial differential equations, and environmental heat transfer problems. Dr. Willhite has projects including The Carbon Dioxide Initiative in Central and Southwest Kansas, permeability modification using in-situ gelation of polymers, and management of petroleum reservoirs.

Susan WilliamsProfessor Susan Michelle Williams received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include thermochemical conversion of algal biomass to high value products, glycerol reforming for syngas

and hydrogen production, heterogeneous materials for Lean NOx Traps, electroporation of algae, fuel property modeling, and her Biodiesel Production Plant.

Mark ShiflettDistinguished Foundation Professor

Foundation Distinguished Professor Mark B. Shiflett joined the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering faculty in the Fall of 2016. His research is focused on green chemistry and engineering to develop

environmentally friendly and energy efficient chemical processes and products (www.shiflettresearch.com). Dr. Shiflett’s group has setup a new engineering laboratory in LEEP2 and created a library of over 3000 research samples which were donated by the DuPont Company at the Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis (CEBC). He currently has two post-doctoral researchers, two graduate students and six undergraduates working in his laboratory.

Aaron ScurtoAssociate Professor Aaron M. Scurto received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Scurto’s research includes organometallic catalysis, biocatalysis, nanocomposites for gas separations, semi-conductor

metal removal from nano-scale lithographies, sustainable chemistry and engineering, alternative solvents including supercritical fluids and ionic liquids, and high-pressure phase behavior and modeling.

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FACULTY PROFILES & PUBLICATIONSLaurence WeatherleyDistinguished Professor, Chair

Laurence Weatherley is the Albert P Learned Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kansas. Weatherley received his PhD from the University

of Cambridge in Chemical Engineering for research on ion exchange kinetics in macroporous resins. He has published over 250 research papers, articles, conference papers and other contributions. Dr Weatherley is a chartered professional engineer (UK), is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, United Kingdom, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Professional Engineers of New Zealand. He also holds a visiting Professorship at the Lodz University of Technology, Poland. Dr. Weatherley sits on the editorial boards of Chemical Engineering and Processing and the Chemical Engineering Journal. He was executive co-editor of the Chemical Engineering Journal for 10 years until 2010.

Reza Barati • Barati, R.., Pennell, S., Matson,

M., & Linroth, M. (2016, April 11). Overview of CO2 Injection and WAG Sensitivity in SACROC. Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Raghunath Chaudhari • Jin, X., Zheng, C., Yan, W., Boba,

P., Shi, H., Thapa, P. S, Subramani-am, B., & Chaudhari, R. V (2017). Effects of Anisotropic Growth Induced Lattice Distortion and Electron Charge Coupling in Exceptional Enhancement in the Activity of Bimetallic PtMn Nano-catalysts . Applied Catalysis-A General, 534, 46.

• Jin, X., Zhao, M., Vora, M., Shen, J., Yan, W. S, Thapa, P. S, Subra-maniam, B., & Chaudhari, R. V (2016). Oxidation of Glucose to Glucaric Acid Using Bimetallic PtPd/TiO2 Nanocatalysts: Sub-strate Inhibition and Structure Dependent Activity and Selectiv-ity . Ind. Eng. Chem. Research , 55(11), 2932-2945.

• Jin, X., Zhao, M., Zheng, C., Yan, W., Song, Z., Thapa, P. S, Subra-maniam, B., & Chaudhari, R. V (2016). Oxidation of Glycerol to Dicarboxylic Acids Using Cobalt Catalysts . ACS Catalysis (2016) 6, 4576−4583, 6, 4576-4583.

• Jin, X., Thapa, P. S, Subramaniam, B., & Chaudhari, R. (2016). Kinet-ic Modeling of Hydrogenolysis of Sorbitol Using Bimetallic RuRe/C Catalyst . ACS Sustainable Chem-istry & Engineering, Special Issue on: Building on 25 Years of Green Chemistry and Engineering for a Sustainable Future, 4, 6037-6047.

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Berkland, C., & Dhar, P. (2016). “Physicochemical properties of aluminum adjuvants modulate reorganization of phospholipid domains in model membranes”. Molecular Pharmaceutics, , 13(5), 1731–1737

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Stevin Gehrke• Beck, E. C.; Barragan, M.;

Tadros, M. H.; Gehrke, S. H.; Detamore, M. S. Approach-ing the compressive modulus of articular cartilage with a decellularized cartilage-based hydrogel. Acta Biomaterialia 38, 94-105 (2016)

• Ott, L.M.; Zabel, T.A.; Walk-er, NK; Farris, A.L.; Chakroff, J.T.; Ohst, D.G.; Johnson, J.K.; Gehrke, S. H.; Weatherly, R.A.; Detamore, M.S. Mechanical evaluation of gradient electro-spun scaffolds with 3D printed ring reinforcements for tracheal defect repair. Biomedical Ma-terials 11(2), Article 025020 (2016)

• Xiao Y, Rennerfeldt D, Friis EA, Gehrke SH, Detamore MS, “Evaluation of apparent fracture toughness of articular cartilage and hydrogels,” Journal of Tis-sue Engineering and Regener-ative Medicine, 11(1), 121-128 (2017)

Laura Li• Li, X., Yang, D., and Fan, Z.

Vapor-Liquid Phase Boundaries and Swelling Factors of C3H8-n-C4H10-CO2-Heavy Oil Systems under Reservoir Conditions. Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2017, 434: 211-221.

• Shi, Y.; Li, X.; Yang, D. Non-Equi-librium Phase Behaviour of Alkane Solvent(s)-CO2-Heavy Oil Systems under Reservoir

Conditions. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2016, 55 (10): 2860-2871.

• Li, X., Yang, D., Zhang, X., Zhang, G., and Gao, J. Binary Interaction Parameters of CO2-Heavy-n-Alkanes Systems by Using Peng-Robinson Equation of State with Modified Alpha Function. Fluid Phase Equilibria 2016, 417, 77-86.

• Fan, Z., Yang, D., and Li, X. Determination of Three-Phase Relative Permeability in CHOPS Processes by Use of An Iterative Improved Ensemble Smoother. SPE 186080, to be presented at the SPE Reservoir Characterisa-tion and Simulation Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, May 8-10, 2017.

Trung Van Nguyen• Regis P. Dowd Jr., Vikram

Lakhanpal, and Trung Van Nguy-en, “Performance Evaluation of a Hydrogen-Vanadium Revers-ible Fuel Cell,” J. Electrochemi-cal Society, 164 (6), F564-F567 (2017).

• Regis P. Dowd Jr., Cynthia S. Day and Trung Van Nguyen, “Engineering the Ionic Polymer Phase Surface Properties of a PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer,” J. Electrochemical Society, 164 (14), F138-F146 (2017).

• Regis P. Dowd Jr., Venkata Yarlagadda, Dhrubajit Konwar, Guangyu Lin, Guoming Weng, Chi-Ying Vanessa Li, Kwong-Yu Chan, and Trung Van Nguyen, “A Study of Alkaline-Based H2-Br2 and H2-I2 Reversible Fuel Cells,” J. Electrochemical Society, 163 (14), F1471-F1479 (2016).

• Regis P. Dowd Jr., and Trung Van Nguyen, “Engineering the Ionic Polymer Phase Surface Proper-ties of a PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer,” ECS Transactions, Vol. 72, No. 8, 607-613 (2016).

• Regis P. Dowd Jr., Andrew Ying, and Trung Van Nguyen, “Prelim-inary Study of a Reversible Hy-drogen-Vanadium Flow Battery,” ECS Transactions, Vol. 72, No. 8, 607-613 (2016).

• Yuanchao Li and Trung Van Nguyen, “Core-Shell Rhodium Sulfide Catalyst for HER/HOR in HBr Solution,” ECS Transactions,

PUBLICATIONSVol. 72, No. 8, 607-613 (2016).

• Jun Woo Park, Ryszard Wycisk, Peter Pintauro, Venkata Yar-lagadda, and Trung Van Nguyen, “Electrospun Nafion/Polyphenyl-sulfone Composite Membranes for Regenerative Hydrogen Bromine Fuel Cells,” Materials, 143 9(3), (2016).

Arghya Paul• Neslihan Alemdar, Jeroen Lei-

jten, Gulden Camci-Unal, Jesper Hjortnaes, Joao Ribas, Arghya Paul, Pooria Mostafalu, Akhilesh K Gaharwar, Yiling Qiu, Sameer F Sonkusale, Ronglih Liao, Ali Khademhosseini* (2016). Oxygen-generating photocross-linkable hydrogels support cardiac progenitor cell survival by reducing hypoxia-induced ne-crosis. ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering

• Jonathan Whitlow, Settimio Pacelli, Arghya Paul* (2016). Polymeric nanohybrids as a new class of therapeutic bio-transporter. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics - (Select-ed in Talent Articles category to highlight outstanding young scientists) (research highlighted on the front cover page)

• Anwarul Hasan*, Renae Waters, Boustany Roula, Rahbani Dana, Seif Yara, Toubia Alexandre, Arghya Paul* (2016). Engineered Biomaterials to Enhance Stem Cell-based Cardiac Tissue Engi-neering and Therapy. Macromo-lecular Bioscience Arghya Paul*, Vijayan Manoharan, Dorothee Krafft, Alexander Assmann, Jorge Alfredo Uquillas, Su Ryon Shin, Anwarul Hasan, Mohammad Asif Hussain, Adnan

• Memic, Akhilesh K. Gaharwar and Ali Khademhosseini* (2016). Nanoengineered biomimetic hy-drogels for guiding human stem cell osteogenesis in three di-mensional microenvironments. J Materials Chemistry B

• Renae Waters, Settimio Pacelli, Ryan Maloney, Indrani Medhi, Rafeeq P. H. Ahmed, Arghya Paul* (2016). Stem cell secre-tome-rich nanoclay hydrogel: a dual action therapy for cardiovascular regeneration. Nanoscale

• Settimio Pacelli, Vijayan Mano-haran, Anna Desalvo, Nikita Lomis, Satya Prakash*, Arghya Paul* (2016). Tailoring biomate-rial surface properties to mod-ulate host-implant interactions: implication in cardiovascular and bone therapy. J Materials Chemistry B

Aaron Scurto• Gilbert, W. J., Johnson, S. J.,

Tsau, J., Liang, J., & Scurto, A. M. (2017). Enzymatic degradation of polyacrylamide in aqueous solution with peroxidase and H2O2. Journal of Applied Poly-mer Science, 134(10).

• Minnick, D. L., & Scurto, A. M. (2016). Reversible and non-reac-tive cellulose separations from ionic liquid mixtures with com-pressed carbon dioxide. Chem. Commun., 51(63), 12649-12652.

• Minnick, D. L., Flores, R. A., DeStefano, M. R., & Scurto, A. M. (2016). Cellulose Solubility in Ionic Liquid Mixtures: Tempera-ture, Cosolvent, and Antisolvent Effects. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 120(32), 7906-7919.

Mark Shiflett• D.L. Minnick, W.J.R. Gilbert,

M.A. Rocha, M.B. Shiflett, Thermodynamic Measurement and Modeling of Vinyl Fluoride Solubility in Aqueous Lithium Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide Li+Tf2N- + H2O Solutions, Fluid Phase Equilbria, 2017, in press.

• W.J.R. Gilbert, J. Safarov, D.L. Minnick, M.A. Rocha, E.P. Hassel, M.B. Shiflett, Density, Viscos-ity, and Vapor Pressure Mea-surements of Water + Lithium bis(trifluoromethlsulfonyl)imide Solutions, J. Chem. Eng. Data, 2017, in press.

Bala Subramaniam• M. D. Lundin, A. M. Danby, G. R.

Akien, P. Venkitasubramanian, K. J. Martin, D. H. Busch and B. Subramaniam, “Intensified and Safe Ozonolysis of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters in Liquid CO2 in a Continuous Reactor,” AIChE Journal. DOI:10.1002/aic.15630 (2017).

• H. Zhu, A. Ramanathan, R. V. Chaudhari and B. Subramaniam,

“Effects of Tunable Acidity and Basicity of Nb-KIT-6 Catalysts on Ethanol Conversion: Experiments and Kinetic Modeling,” AIChE Journal. DOI: 10.1002/aic.15648 (2017).

• C. J. Bode, C. Chapman, A. Pennybaker and B. Subramaniam, “Developing Students’ Understanding of Industrially Relevant Economic and Life Cycle Assessments,” Journal of Chemical Education. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00548 (2017).

• J-F. Wu, A. Ramanathan and B. Subramaniam, “Novel Tungsten-incorporated Mesoporous Silicates Synthesized via Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly: Enhanced Metathesis Performance,” Journal of Catalysis. 350, 182-188 (2017).

• A. Y. Leon, A. Guzman, D. Laverde, R. V. Chaudhari, B. Subramaniam and J. J. Bravo-Suarez, “Thermal Cracking and Catalytic Hydrocracking of a Colombian Vacuum Residue and its Maltenes and Asphaltenes Fractions in Toluene.” Energy and Fuels. 31 (4), 3868–3877 (2017).

• X. Jin, P. Bobba, N. Reding, Z. Song, P. S. Thapa, G. Prasad, B. Subramaniam and R. V. Chaudhari, “Kinetic Modeling of Carboxylation of Propylene Oxide to Propylene Carbonate Using Ion-Exchange Resin Catalyst in A Semi-Batch Slurry Reactor,” Chemical Engineering Science. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2017.04.018 (2017).

Franklin Tao• Fung,V.; Tao,F.; Jiang,D*.

“General Structure–Reactivity Relationship for Oxygen on Transition-Metal Oxides.” J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 8, pp 2206–2211. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b00861 (2017).

• Hong, Y.; Zhang, S.; Tao, F.; Wang, Y. “Stabilization of Iron-based Catalysts against Oxidation: An in situ Ambient Pressure XPS Study”, ACS Catalysis, (2017).

• Dou, J.;, Sun, Z.; Opaladea, A.; Wang, N.; Fu, W.; Tao, F.;* “Operando chemistry of catalyst surface during catalysis”, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2017, 46, 2001-2027.

• Shan, J.; Zhang, S.; Choksi, T.;

Nguyen, L.; Bonifacio, C.; Li, Y.; Zhu, W.; Tang, Y.; Zhang, Y; Yang, J; Greeley, J; Frenkel, A*; Tao, F* “Tuning Catalytic Performance through a Single or Sequential Post-Synthesis Reaction(s) in a Gas Phase” ACS Catalysis, 7, 191-204, (2017).

• Dou, J.; Tao, F.* “Selective Epoxidation of Cyclohexene with Molecular Oxygen on Catalyst of Nanoporous Au Integrated with MoO3 Nanoparticles“, Appl. Catal. A, 529, 134-142 (2017).

• Nguyen, L.; Liu, L.; Assefa, S.; Wolverton, C.; Schneider*, W. F.; Tao, F.*; “In situ studies of structural evolution of model catalyst Rh(110) at atomic scale during catalysis”; ACS Catalysis, 2016. DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.6b02006.

• Jian, D.; Tang, Y.; Nguyen, L.; Tong, X.; Thapa, P. S.; Tao, F.* “Oxidation of cyclohexene catalyzyed by nanoporous Au(Ag) in liquid phase“, Catal. Lett, 2017.

Laurence Weatherley• L.R.Weatherley, J Petera, Z. Qiu

(2017) Intensification of Mass Transfer and Reaction in Elec-trically Disturbed Liquid-Liquid Systems. Chemical Engineering Journal, 322, 115–128.

• A.Ahosseini, W.Ren, L.R.Weather-ley, A.M.Scurto. (2017) Viscosity and self-diffusivity of ionic liquids with compressed hydrofluorocar-bons:1-Hexyl-3-methyl-imidazoli-um bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)amide and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluo-roethane. Fluid Phase Equilibria, 437, 34-42

• L.R. Weatherley and A Anand The Performance of Microbial Lipase Immobilized onto Ion Exchange Resins and onto the Natural Zeolite, Clinoptilolite. International Journal of Chemical Separation Technology volume 2, issue 2 – November 2016.

• K.Kamiński, L.R.Weatherley, J.Petera. Application of numer-ical modelling to scaling-up of electrically induced extraction from an organic mixture using an ionic liquid. Polish Academy of Sciences, Chem. Process Eng., 2016, 37 (1), 133-148.

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Department 13

C&PE 2017 Hall of Fame Inductees

ANNUAL SPRING AWARDS BANQUET

Gary Gould Guy Green

Mr. Guy Green has over 25 years of experience in technical and managerial positions. Currently, he is the Chief of the Seattle District US Army Corps

of Engineers Design Branch. This branch has the responsibility for the management and supervision of a multidisciplinary architectural and engineering team which includes the designs and specifications for a wide range of Civil Works, Military, and Hazardous, Toxic and Radiological Waste projects. Technical oversight through subordinate supervisors has included numerous types of large military industrial, housing, and troop operation facilities; ecosystem restoration designs; dam fish passage facilities; levee rehabilitation and restoration, and a variety of engineering rehabilitation designs for several dams throughout the Pacific Northwest. In this position, Guy has also served as the Supervisor responsible for performance evaluations, assignment and oversight for position rotations, training, coaching, and mentoring.

Outstanding Academic Achievement: Jordan Hildenbrand (Chemical Engineering) and Robert Wargo (Petroleum Engineering)

Outstanding Sophomores: Dylan Flohrschutz (Chemical Engineering) and Raudhah Soffian (Petroleum Engineering)

Outstanding Freshmen: Kaylee Barr (Chemical Engineering) and Zalma Molina (Petroleum Engineering)

AIChE Outstanding Sophomores: Taylor Bahm, Adam M. Boyer, Andrew Doerflinger, Kyle T. Gilmore, Colton E. Lagerman, Steven R. Nitz

Vince Imbler Outstanding Senior: Kevin Tenny (Chemical Engineering) and Kristina Hansen (Petroleum Engineering)

Outstanding Junior: Andrew Doerflinger (Chemical Engineering) and Jacob Antonneau (Petroleum Engineering)

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant: Aishik Chakraborty (Chemical Engineering), Mustafa Al Hubail (Petroleum Engineering) and Rudhra Anandan (Petroleum Engineering)

Outstanding Senior Design: Faiz Mandani (Chemical Engineering) and Ryan Rosecrans, Marieliza Suarez, Isabella Farley, Atiq Ahmadullah, Saad Alotaibi, Austin Miller, Daniel Ott, Eric Gergens, Paa Imbeah, Stephen Ngatia, and Yadira Chavez (Petroleum Engineering)

Outstanding Master of Science Research: Negar Nezari, MS in Petroleum Engineering

Maloney Award for Writing: Erik Van Kampen, Ph.D.

Fred Kurata Thermodynamics Award: Colton Lagerman, Senior

Merrill A. Jones Service Award: Carrie Albers (Chemical Engineering) and Aubrey Jeffries (Petroleum Engineering)

Oenbring Undergraduate Teaching Award: Dr. Stevin Gehrke (Chemical Engineering) and Dr. Reza Barati (Petroleum Engineering)

Mr. Gary Gould has excelled in three areas: as a reservoir and production engineer involved in directing oil and gas exploitation in very large fields in the United

States, as an executive responsible for oversight of oil and gas production for large US energy companies, and as a CPE Advisory Board member for service to the Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Department at KU. Gary received his BS and MS degrees in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1987 and 1991. Gary has a wide range of experience as an engineer, working in several major oil and gas basins across the country, including the Anadarko Basin, Williston Basin, Permian Basin, and Appalachian Basin to name a few. He has worked in primary development, waterflooding, and EOR using CO2. He has been an engineer using new technologies in projects during a period of time in which advances in geologic, drilling, completions, and reservoir technology have been responsible for the United States making a major advance towards energy independence.

Frank Bowdish Outstanding PhD Award: Regis P. Dowd Jr.

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Joel Abrahamson, PhD, 3M

Colby Arnold, Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Jana Chester, XTO Energy Inc.

Kelli Calhoon, Blackstone Environmental, Inc.

Kirk Gerdes, PhD, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Gary Gould, Continental Resources, Inc.

Don Green, PhD, University of Kansas

Guy Green, Seattle District USACE

Sonya Herrick, Pain Franchise OTC R&D

Jeremy Johnson, PhD, Board Chair, Agrivida

Anahita Khanlari, PhD, NALCO Champion (An

Ecolab Company)

Roy Knapp, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Carol Krska, InkCycle, Inc

Kevin Lafferty, Devon Energy Corporation

Kevin Leonard, PhD, University of Kansas

Lance Lobban, PhD, University of Oklahoma

Yvonne Murtha, University of Missouri

Karen Nordheden, PhD, University of Kansas

Russ Ostermann, PhD, University of Kansas

Kent Pennybaker, River City Engineering, Inc.

Derrick K. Rollins, Sr., PhD, Iowa State University

Lanny Schoeling, PhD, Kinder Morgan CO2

Company

Robert Smith, PhD, Retired from Black & Veatch

Jacob Spence, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LP

Cecilia Tapia, Environmental Sciences & Technology

Division

Dominic M. Varraveto, Burns & McDonnell

Shapour Vossoughi, University of Kansas

Laurence Weatherley, University of Kansas

Bryn Womack, ExxonMobil Refining & Supply

Company

ADVISORY BOARD

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DONOR RECOGNITION$50,000 or moreJohn V. Bossi*Alfred Gerald Ferguson*Allyn W. Risley & Jill Bogan Risley

$25,000 to $49,999Richard L. Heiny, PhD & Suzanne N. HeinyJ. Bert Ladd & Doris Flood LaddTrung Van Nguyen

$10,000 to $24,999Robert W. KeenerJames E. Smith, PE, MS & Dori L. SmithMark W. Tompkins & Dianne E. Tompkins, PhD

$5,000 to $9,999CDR Robert C. DeesThomas F. Edgar, PhDDr. Kenneth J. HimmelsteinLinda A. PoyserDave E. Reese & Barbara L. ReeseLucas M. SanderKeith A. Shetlar & Kathryn Caldwell Shetlar

$3,000 to $4,999Donna Proffitt Edgar*Michelle Cozad Fritsch & Paul B. FritschGary E. Gould & Elizabeth A. GouldDaryl L. Hughes*Sybil Meyer Johnson & Jeffrey L. JohnsonFrank E. KominKent A. Pennybaker & Janet Knollenberg PennybakerLanny G. Schoeling, DE & Jill A. SchoelingDonald P. Sobocinski, PhD & Joan F. SobocinskiFred S. Williams & Anne Proctor WilliamsDavid R. Zornes & Cynthia L. Zornes

$1,000 to $2,999Carolyn Skinner Black & Sidney L. BlackJimmie R. Bowden & Helen J. BowdenGrant M. CanadayJana L. ChesterThomas C. DoughtyEdmund H. Fording Jr.David P. Fritz, MD & Jamie E. FritzKirk R. Gerdes & Kristin Bradbury GerdesH. Lance Goldberg

($1,000 to $2,999, cont.)C. Patrick Green, MDJose A. GutierrezElma Dwyer HughesJames P. Imbler & Julia L. ImblerRoy M. Knapp, DE & Judith Young KnappLance L. Lobban, PhDJohn E. McElhiney, PhD & Annette B. McElhineyRobert H. Smith, PhD & Margaret Moseley SmithLaurence E. Tarvestad & Jill J. TarvestadGeorge L. Ward

$1 to $99CDR William D. AldenderferAmerican Institute of Chemical EngineersJohn A. Anderson & Deborah Z. AndersonJeffrey M. Bartlett & Sarah Morrisett BartlettAlvin L. Benham, PhDPhilip W. BirkCreed E. BlevinsBruce J. Boggs, Jr.Darrel R. BollWilliam R. Breckenridge & Laura Murphy BreckenridgeLaurence R. BrownBethannie Fought Canter & Jason A. CanterChevron Phillips Chemical Company LPJoshua D. ClausenJames A. ComptonJames P. ComptonConocoPhillipsBrandon J. DeKoskyDevon Energy CorporationDouglas M. Dolan & Jennifer C. DolanRuth L. DostieElmer L. Dougherty, PhDJeffery S. Eliason & Colleen EliasonEric K. Fitzcharles, MD & Melinda Anderson FitzcharlesJames O. Gibson & Linda Ryan GibsonKristie W. GladhillWilliam J. GlickDeena Goodman & Philip J. GoodmanLarry GreenbaumDavid A. Hanson & Jodi L. HansonJerri Runell Hanus & Daniel J. HanusMarlin D. Harmony & Nancy M. Harmony

($1 to $99, cont.) Gary M. Hines & Charlotte Pinter HinesHarold L. HladkyJames D. Howell Jr.Robert H. Jensen, PhD & Ruta Valdmanis JensenXin Jin, PhD & Wenjuan Yan, PhDJeremy C. JohnsonMatthew B. JonesCharles J. KallmeyerSteven J. Kidwell & Jill E. JordanWilliam E. KusterBradley L. Lankford & Laurinda C. LankfordMichael E. LewisLisa M. LoewenMilfred E. MastW. Gregory McCartyMarvin E. MillerRandy B. MillerJack L. MitchellSteven B. PontiousClifton RailsbackMartha Proctor Riedl & Joseph F. RiedlRiver City Engineering Inc.Brian D. StubbingsCurtis M. StubbingsLTC Earl A. Thompson, RetiredStanley S. ThurberAlexander J. TrowerSteven L. Wiseman & Linda Jo WisemanDavid L. Wood III, PhD

Corporate SupportExxon Mobil CorporationSchlumberger Technology Corporation

*Deceased

Continued support from our alumni and friends ensures that our next generation of students has the resources they need. These resources enable C&PE to produce the most ingenious graduates and innovative research possible.

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