Research and technology brings innovation to chemical engineering. From growing new cartilage cells to help osteoarthritus, to improving drug delivery for cancer patients, chemical engineering offers new solutions to some of our greatest societal challenges.
Spotlight Stories
NSF CAREER Award to Fight Cancer
Sidi Bencherif, assistant professor of chemical engineering, recently received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to develop biomaterials that generate oxygen. These materials could help researchers understand how low oxygen environments affect the immune system and potentially be used to supply oxygen to help train immune cells to fight cancer.
NSF CAREER Award to Address Cardiovascular Disease
Eno Ebong, assistant professor of chemical engineering, recently received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. She and her team are studying endothelial cells that line blood vessels to better understand how the blood flow environment and stiffness of the underlying tissue contribute to cardiovascular disease risk.
Engineering in Action
World-Renowned Cooperative Education
Bradley Priem, BS, chemical engineering, had two co-ops that gave him the ability to delve into a particular industry. At Synlogic he was a bioanalytical chemist and bacterial engineer creating e-coli strains, and at bluebird bio he was an upstream process development engineer for gene production. He now knows he wants to go into the biotech industry and is interested in graduate school too.
Global Research Co-op
Taylor Wilde, BS chemical engineering student, worked in a research lab at École Normale Supérieure, a university in Paris. Wilde collaborated with a postdoctoral researcher to create nanomaterials using a chemical vapor deposition, or CVD, furnace. It helped him land his third co-op at GVD Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where worked again with a CVD furnace. Ultimately, Wilde wants to work in renewable energy and contribute to the efforts across the globe to lower society’s carbon footprint.
Recent News
Bencherif’s Research Featured on the Front Cover of Trends in Biotechnology
ChE Professor Sidi A. Bencherif’s research on “Injectable Cryogels for Biomedical Applications” featured on the front cover page of the April issue of Trends in Biotechnology.
Auguste Selected as AIMBE Fellow
ChE Professor Debra Auguste was selected as an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow in recognition of “her distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering”.
COE PhD Research Expo Winners
As part of National Engineers Week, the Graduate School of Engineering hosted a PhD Research Expo to showcase the cutting-edge research that our graduate students are working on, from robotics, computer vision and biomechanics to nanomedicine, cell- tissue engineering, and machine learning. Congratulations to the winners of the poster competition. Ebrahim Mostafavi, Electroconductive Gelatin-Graphene Composite Nanofibrous […]
ChE Student Receives Canadian Fulbright
ChE student Avi Natan, E’21, received the Fulbright-MITACS Globalink Scholarship to fund a summer research experience in oil-repellent textiles at the University of British Columbia-Okanagan.