Air Products Undergraduate Research Symposium

The Undergraduate Research Symposium was designed to provide ChBE undergraduates who participate in research the opportunity to present their work in a public forum. The School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering gratefully acknowledges Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. for their sponsorship of both the Symposium and a series of undergraduate awards to support student research.

2012 award recipients shown left to right: Venkat Goli, Jillian Burgio (Air Products), Dr. Cliff Henderson (ChBE Professor), Che-Ying Kuo, Paul Mattiola (Air Products), Michael Hart, Benjamin Laccetti, MinAe Ahn, Dongkun Huang, and Fatoumata Diallo.

Register for the 2013 Undergraduate Research Symposium here.

2012 Award Recipients

Award

Student

Faculty Advisor

Sponsor

Project

1st Place

Benjamin Laccetti

Lakeshia Taite

PURA

Studying the LCST Shrinking Kinetics of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Based Hydrogels

2nd Place

Dongkun Huang

William Koros

ARPA-E

Ionic Liquid Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Post-combustion CO2 Scrubbing

3rd Place (tie)

Che-Ying Kuo

Michelle Dawson

Air Products

Development of Gelatin Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

3rd Place (tie)

Michael Hart

Dennis Hess

Air Products

Plasma Paper Processing: Controlling the Fluid and Surface Interactions of Paper

Honorable Mention

Venkat Goli

Julie Champion

Air Products

High-Throughput Microfluidic Synthesis of Janus Particles of Sub-Micron Size

Honorable Mention

Fatoumata Diallo

Carsten Sievers

GT SURE & Brooks Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems

Investigation of γ-Alumina Supported Catalyst Systems in Aqueous Solution  

Honorable Mention

MinAe Ahn

Clifford Henderson

Air Products

Materials and Methods for Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

 

2012 Participants & Research Projects

Alec Jaeger

Preparation of Cellodextrins via a Mixed Acid Hydrolysis

Anubhuti Lal &
Davina Morrow

Closing the Loop: Syngas Production and Nutrient Recycle from Algae

Benjamin Laccetti 

Studying the LCST Shrinking Kinetics of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) Based Hydrogels

Byungill "John" Jang

Preparation of Conducting Polymer-Based Nanocomposites for Supercapcitor Application

Charlotte Sloan

Optimization of Simulated Moving Bed with the Separation of Uridine and Guanosine

Che-Ying Kuo

Development of Gelatin Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering

Dongkun Huang

Ionic Liquid Hollow Fiber Sorbents for Post-combustion CO2 Scrubbing

Eun Gong Ahn

Electro-osmosis in Proton Exchange Membranes

Fatoumata Diallo

Investigation of γ-Alumina Supported Catalyst Systems in Aqueous Solution  

Garrett Dowdy

The Day-Night Machine

Jeremy Feaster

Characterizing Mechanical Properties for Membranes Used in Artificial Photosynthesis

Josh Chu & Steven Wu

Transformations of Activated Carbon in Hot Liquid Water

Kelly Henderson

Fermentation Metabolic Dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Kristen Hannukainen &
Jianli Zhang

Polylactic Acid Generation Under Cyclic Conditions

Michael Hart

Plasma Paper Processing: Controlling the Fluid and Surface Interactions of Paper

MinAe Ahn

Materials and Methods for Directed Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers

Nishrutha Manohar

Quantifying the Kinetics of Reversible Acetal Linkages

Patti Lowery

Architectural Optimization of Temperature-sensitive Polymers

Rohan Menon

Assessing the Degradation and Mechanical Properties of PEG-Derivative Hydrogels

Selina Chan 

Chemical Control of Nanowire Morphology with Triethlylsilane

Tanya Singh Dixit

Finite-Element Modeling of Mass Transport in Nanocomposite Membranes

Thomas Chen

Oxidative Study of Amine Supported Adsorbents for CO2 Capture

Venkat Goli

High-Throughput Microfluidic Synthesis of Janus Particles of Sub-Micron Size

Venous Derakhshanian

Calcium Carbonate Scaling with Use of Cyclodextrin

Program Coordinator:
Molly L. O'Neal
Director of Corporate Relations
Georgia Tech

Phone: 404-894-7488
molly [dot] oneal [at] dev [dot] gatech [dot] edu

Faculty Coordinator:
Dr. Cliff Henderson
Professor & GT ChBE Undergraduate
Research Coordinator
School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Phone: 404-385-0525
cliff [dot] henderson [at] chbe [dot] gatech [dot] edu

About Air Products:

Air Products touches the lives of consumers around the globe in positive ways every day. The company is recognized for its innovative culture, operational excellence, and commitment to safety and the environment. Air Products aims to develop lasting relationships with its customers and communities based on human qualities: an understanding of their needs, integrity and honesty in the way it does business, and a passion for exceeding expectations.

Air Products was established in 1940 in Detroit, Michigan, on the strength of a simple but then revolutionary idea: the “on-site” concept of producing and selling industrial gases, primarily oxygen. At the time, most oxygen was sold as a highly compressed gas product in cylinders that weighed five times more than the gas itself. Air Products proposed building oxygen gas generating facilities adjacent to large-volume users, thereby reducing distribution costs. The concept of piping the gas directly from the generator to the point of use proved sound and technically solvable.

Today, Air Products provides numerous products and solutions, including tonnage gases, equipment and energy, electronics and performance materials, and healthcare products. Air Products boasts 18,900 employees around the world, operates in more than 40 countries, posted fiscal 2011 revenues of $10.1 billion, and ranked 271st in sales among Fortune magazine’s May 2011 list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations.