2009 Annual Report
Dear Alumni and Friends of the Department:
The past year was one of progress and growth for our
department. We have become more accustomed to
our new name, the William G. Lowrie Department of
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, but for our
160 sophomores, it is all they have ever known. Those
students completing our first courses in Material and
Energy Balances comprise the largest class we have ever
seen. Our faculty and graduate students who serve as
teaching assistants are doing their very best to provide
a quality education even though they are coping with
fairly large section sizes. Last year we went to three
sections with enrollments of 54, 57 and 67 students
in our first course, ChBE 200, Chemical Process
Calculations. Our graduating class was also large with
72 students earning their degrees last year and for the
next several years we expect graduating classes of over
100.
To help with the increased enrollment and to add a new
dimension to our research capabilities, we have added
one new faculty member, David Wood, who comes
to us from Princeton University. David is a chemical
engineer with research interests in applied molecular
biology, and we are most pleased to welcome him as
our 18th faculty member. Additionally, John Corn,
who was helping us as an instructor in our summer lab
and design courses, retired. We were able to replace
him with Carlo Scaccia. Both Carlo and John had
distinguished careers at Ashland Chemicals and both
were on hand last summer to lead our unit operations
course taken by 118 of our juniors and seniors. Profiles
of David Wood and Carlo Scaccia can be found in this
Annual Report.
The Department continues to be very research
intensive. Research expenditures last year were at an
all time high of more than $13.3M or $780K/ faculty
member on average. Large grants were won by Jim
Lee in the area of nanotechnology, and several grants
related to energy research were won by L.S.
Fan, Winston Ho and Umit Ozkan. This was the
third consecutive year that research expenditures
exceeded $12M and was only made possible by having
our entire faculty very active in research along with
their postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate
researchers.
Finally, plans for our new building are proceeding along
the promised timetable of having us occupy a new
Koffolt Laboratories by the end of 2014. The site will
be just West of our current location with the buildings
Boyd, Johnston, Aviation and Haskett, (which are not
in good condition) being torn down and replaced by
a large Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and
Chemistry (CBEC) complex devoted to a collaborative
chemical sciences research and education environment.
The building will be more than 210,000 gross square
feet with 109,000 assignable square feet for our two
departments. The Koffolt Laboratories portion of
the complex will occupy 60% of the space. Most of
the research in Chemistry’s Evans Laboratory will be
relocated to the new building. We are excited about the
possibilities of increased research cooperation with our
colleagues in Chemistry. Meanwhile the total building
cost is $126M, including our fund raising obligation of
$17.5M. We are making good progress in this capital
campaign and thank all those alumni and friends who
have given or pledged gifts for the building. Progress to
date takes us to about 75% of our goal, though a good
number of space naming opportunities remain.
Best wishes on behalf of our faculty, staff and students.
Stuart L. Cooper
Professor and Chair
coopers@chbmeng.ohio-state.edu
614-247-8015
Table of Contents
Letter from the Chair
News
Graduate Program
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Professor Fan’s Clean Coal Research
Distinguished Alumnus Award
Recipients
4 Jeffrey Chalmers-Tumor Cell Research
5 Stuart Cooper Receives Stimulus Grant
5 NSEC Receives Grant
5 Umit Ozkan Receives WIC Mentorship
Award
6 Bhavik Bakshi’s Energy Life Cycle
Research
6 New Faculty Member David Wood
7 Advancing Production of Biofuel
7 New Instructor Carlo Scaccia
8 Oxygen-Carrying Solutions for
Transfusion Medicine-Andre Palmer
9 Winston Ho and Group Develop HighFlux Desalination Membranes
10 Lowrie Lectures
11 2009 Advisory Board Meeting
Ranking
Faculty Productivity
Graduate Degrees Granted
Graduate Student Fellowships
Research Expenditures
Graduate Program
Seminar Series
23 Graduate Student Awards
24 2009 Alumni Donors
26 Faculty
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37 CBE Faculty and Staff
Undergraduate Program
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Course Enrollment
Cooperative Learning Experiences
2009 Placement Record
Department Graphs
Undergraduate Scholarship
Information
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William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
1125 Koffolt Laboratories, 140 West 19th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
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Phone: 614-292-6591, Fax: 614-292-3769, www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu
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Photography: Geoff Hulse
Professor L.S. Fan’s Clean Coal Research is
Supported by The U.S. Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $5 million grant to professor L.S. Fan for
research related to clean coal technology. Fan’s grant is part of $151 million awarded through
the Department of Energy’s recently-formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy
(”ARPA-E”).
L.S. Fan, internationally recognized for his expertise in energy and environmental reaction
engineering, will use the grant to further develop a process he invented to convert coal and
biomass to electricity while capturing carbon dioxide emissions.
Dr. Fan has successfully demonstrated the process, called syngas chemical
looping, on a small pilot scale. With the new grant, he will scale up the
process to a 250 kW pilot plant to obtain performance data to prove the
process eventually can be commercialized for coal-based power plants,
contributing to the United States’ efforts toward energy independence
and greenhouse gas emission reductions.
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The syngas chemical looping process Fan and his research group
developed uses an iron oxide-based chemical looping medium to
indirectly and flexibly convert carbonaceous fuels such as coal and
biomass into hydrogen and/or electricity while at the same time capturing
and separating the carbon dioxide. The process is simpler and more
efficient compared to conventional gasification processes. Moreover, the
pollutant and greenhouse gas management cost for the syngas chemical
looping process is minimal compared to conventional process schemes.
Fan’s 250 kW pilot plant demonstration will be at the National Carbon
Capture Center, which the U.S. Department of Energy formed this spring
in Wilsonville, Ala., for a combined operating time of more than 3,000
hours. Fan expects the testing of the new pilot plant to finish by early
2013, with the next scale up to follow immediately.
University recognizes generosity with first-ever named department.
Fan’s team will work with the Particulate Solids Research Institute to design and operate a cold
flow model for the plant; Shell/CRI in preparing the iron oxide-based chemical looping medium;
Babcock and Wilcox Co., Air Products and Chemicals Inc., and IWI Inc. for the design and
construction of the plant; and CONSOL Energy, which will independently perform technoeconomic analysis and collaborate with Ohio State and other partners on the commercialization
plan.
Congratulations to the following Chemical Engineering Alumni
Recipients of the 2009 Distinguished Alumnus Award!
James F. Dietz
Jim Dietz, a native of Botkins, Ohio, received both a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree in 1969 and a Master of Science in
Chemical Engineering in 1970 from The Ohio State University.
In 1969, Dietz began his career with Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio) at the Vistron Chemical Plant in Lima, Ohio. He worked in various
engineering and production supervisor positions in the nitrogen fertilizer facilities until 1980, when he transferred to Vistrons new
grassroots chemical plant near Victoria, Texas. After construction and startup of this new complex, Dietz continued to work there as
operations manager until 1989. In 1986 British Petroleum (BP) acquired Standard Oil of Ohio, and in 1989, Dietz accepted a position
in London as project director of a new European chemical plant. After one year, the project was shelved and he became production
manager at BP Chemicals chemical complex in Grangemouth, Scotland. In 1993, Dietz resigned from BP after 24 years of service to take
the position of vice-president of manufacturing with Arcadian Corporation in Memphis, Tenn. When Arcadian was purchased in 1997
by Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan (PCS), he was named executive vice president, PCS Nitrogen. In November 2000, Dietz was
named executive vice president and chief operating officer for Potash Corporation. In addition to responsibility for Potash Corporation’s
worldwide operations, he has responsibility for the company’s safety, health and environment performance and procurement functions.
Dietz and his wife, Patricia (Pat), reside in Northfield, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. They have four children, Anita, Bradley, Douglas,
and Marcia, and five grandchildren.
F. William Hauschildt
After receiving his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Ohio State in 1967, Bill Hauschildt began his career at Amoco R&D.
Over the years, Hauschildt developed an extensive technical, operational and commercial background. Among his posts with Amoco,
he has been a refining process and catalysis researcher; technology manager at R&D (Process, Catalysis & Environmental Research),
Operations; operations manager at the Whiting Indiana Refinery; health safety and environment regional manager (supporting Refineries,
Pipeline, Marketing and Chemical plant operations); and refining planning manager (Capital Spending and Business Planning), all in
the Chicago area. From 1996 to 1998, he was based in London, and was responsible for an Off-Shore North Sea Oil Brent system joint
venture focused on late life reservoir and platform operations management. He was also responsible for technical and environmental
preparations and acted as liaison with the UK government in planning for decommissioning of the field. After the BP-Amoco merger,
Hauschildt’s last BP assignment was on the ARCO Merger Integration Team, where he was responsible for the integration of the ARCO
Refining operations and related technology development and support into the BP Amoco refining system.
Hauschildt also holds a master’s degree in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology and participated in Harvard’s
Program for Management Development. He holds five U.S. patents in refining process and catalysis and was responsible for implementing
technical developments and later in his career, operations management at Amoco. He was active in the advisory group for Ohio
State’s departments of chemistry and chemical engineering, in the area of catalysis. He was also involved with the advisory group to
Northwestern University’s Catalysis Center.
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Jeffrey Chalmers’ Tumor Cell Research
Professor Jeffrey Chalmers and colleagues have developed
devices to detect circulating tumor cells from patients with
head, neck, breast, and other cancers. Jeff ’s team has earned
eight patents based on this technology, as well as created jobs
and attracted multimillion dollar funding. Ultimately this
capability has the potential for saving lives. Their medical
invention is just one example of how Ohio State innovation
bolsters the state’s economy.
For example, in collaboration with Professor Ratnasingham
Sooryakumar, of OSU’s Department of Physics, the device was
developed from a tiny piece of square-centimeter silicon inlaid
with rows of zigzagging magnetic wires. At each corner, the
wire behaves like two magnets pointed north to north or south
to south. The fields of the two magnets create a point of strong
attraction just above them. A nearby magnetic object, such as
a magnetically-tagged cell is attracted to the corner and gets
stuck there.
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To get the particles moving, the researchers then place two
magnetic fields around the chip one in the plane of the chip
and the other perpendicular to it. By flipping the direction of
these fields, the researchers can guide tagged cells along the
zigzagging wire and even make them jump from one wire to
the next. The researchers computerized the magnetic field
switching so that a user can steer the cells by simply handling a
joystick. Chalmers and colleagues put the device through its paces with magnetically-tagged T-cells, the body’s guardians against infection. They snapped the cells to attention
at one end of the chip, marched them down to the other end, and made them hop from one wire to another, reaching speeds of about 20 micron, or about a one-fifth the width
of a human hair, per second.
Chalmers said that the device would be ideal for examining tumor cells.“Part of the problem with cancer is that it’s our own cells going haywire, so it’s a heck of a lot harder to
figure out what’s different,” Chalmers said. With this method, he said, researchers could magnetically tag the well-understood healthy cells and then remove them from a sample,
leaving only the cancerous cells. Chalmers said this would be a boon to both a researcher studying a specific type of cancer or a clinician diagnosing a patient.
The small magnetic fields are gentle on specimens; the device works on a flat surface, an improvement over other methods; and it’s also cost-effective with the whole set-up
costing only about $200.
Article excerpted from Foxnews.com
Photo by Rick Harrison
Stimulus Grant Funds Health
Testing Research
The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center
(NSEC) wins a $12.5M 5 year renewal from NSF
A team of Ohio State researchers has received federal stimulus
money to develop a test for detecting rare cells that are among
the most promising potential biomarkers of vascular health and
aging.
Stuart Cooper, Professor and
Department Chair, and Nicanor
Moldovan,
an
investigator
with the Davis Heart and Lung
Research Institute, received a
$1.2 million, two-year Grand
Opportunities
award
from
the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act “stimulus
package” of the National Institute
of Aging at the National Institutes
of Health.
The Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC)
for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric Biomedical
Devices (CANPBD) was recently awarded a $12.5M
grant by the National Science Foundation in support
of the Center's renewal through Phase II (10/01/200909/30/2014). Professor James Lee continues as the
Principal Investigator.
Current
testing
for
the
concentration of these cells,
called endothelial progenitor cells, takes about a month. Cooper,
Moldovan and colleagues are working to develop a much faster
process — requiring just one to two days — that would use
specially designed peptides from proteins that would adhere
to the progenitor cells.The peptides would be connected to
magnetic nanobeads so that once they adhere to the progenitor
cells, they could be separated from the rest of the blood cells
magnetically. The progenitor cells would then be grown into cell
colonies for further analysis.
The researchers plan to use the method to test blood of
populations of children, adults and seniors to determine whether
various disease states could be detected via the concentrations of
the cells. The research is estimated to have a combined direct and
indirect economic impact of $3.3 million and 10 full-time jobs
over its two-year period.
The research vision of CANPBD is to revolutionize
medical diagnosis and medicine by establishing an
affordable multiscale synthesis and fabrication protocol
leading to nanofluidic and polymer therapeutic devices
for personalized nanomedicine. An important emphasis
of Phase II is to commercialize the developed technologies in close collaboration with end users.
The broader impacts of the activities planned for Phase II are to (1) commercialize nanoengineered
biomedical devices through affordable manufacturing methods and novel design, (2) extend
research results from medical/biology applications to functional nanocomposites, water
treatment, homeland security, environmental protection, and food industry toxicology, (3)
establish new products and new industries to create high-paying jobs in the US, and (4) train the
21st century workforce in economically important and critical high-tech fields.
Umit Ozkan Receives WIC Mentorship
Excellence Award
Dr. Umit Ozkan is the 2009 recipient of AIChE’s Women’s
Initiative Committee (WIC) Mentorship Excellence Award. This
award recognizes Dr. Ozkan’s dedication and contributions to the
development of the next generation of chemical engineers through
outstanding mentoring and teaching. Dr. Ozkan joined our faculty in
1985. As stated in the award announcement her success in research,
teaching and administration and her personal interactions with
students have provided a role model for a great many female students
as they embark on their professional careers. Dr. Ozkan received the
Mentorship Excellence Award of $5,000 at the WIC Lunch at the
National AIChE meeting in Nashville on November 9th.
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Bhavik Bakshi’s Energy Life Cycle Research
Bhavik Bakshi, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, aims to change the practice of implementing breakthrough
technologies without first examining the entire energy life cycle — from obtaining the raw material through disposing of the
product.
“We need to think about the scale of use and broader applications,” says Bakshi, who is research director of the university’s Center
for Resilience. “Omitting this step is one of the root causes of the unexpected surprises that often come with new technologies.”
With funding from the National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency, Bakshi is examining the environmental
burden of carbon nanofibers, desired in various manufacturing applications for their mechanical strength, thermal and flame
resistance, barrier properties, electrical conductivity and resistance to chemical attack.
To determine the life cycle energy use of those carbon nanofibers, he examined each stage of their cycle. First, he and L. James Lee,
along with doctoral student Vikas Khanna, compared the manufacture of nanofibers with that of traditional materials on an equal
mass basis. “The best carbon nanofiber currently requires 300 times more energy than steel for production on a per-kilogram basis.
That’s the killer,” Bakshi says. Since processes using nanomaterials are in nascent stages, he expects the ratio to improve as new
technologies are developed.
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In addition, energy savings resulting from the use of carbon nanofibers in products as well as the increase or decrease in demand
for those products will be deciding factors when comparing the materials. Bakshi and Khanna continued the research by evaluating the carbon nanofibers when they are used
in polymer nanocomposites for automotive body parts. In an analysis of the materials from the natural resources to the factory gate, they found that vehicles with polymer
nanocomposite parts, depending on the quantities of carbon nanofibers and the other materials in the resulting composites, use 1.4 to 10 percent less energy than a conventional
car, mainly because the lighter nanocomposites result in less fuel consumption as the lighter car is driven. This corresponds to driving 9,000 to 13,000 miles less during the life
of an average car.
Faculty Member-David Wood
David Wood joined the faculty this past fall as an associate professor. His work focuses on protein engineering, bioseparations
and biosensing. Originally from El Paso, Texas, he completed a double major in Chemical Engineering and Molecular Biology as
an undergraduate at Caltech in 1990. He then spent some time in industry before going on to graduate school. His Ph.D. work at
Rensselaer Polytechnic led to the generation of an engineered, evolved self-cleaving protein subunit for applications in recombinant
protein purification. He then joined the Chemical Engineering faculty at Princeton University as an assistant professor in 2001. At
Princeton, he combined this self-cleaving element with two novel self-cleaving purification tags to create powerful and convenient
non-chromatographic bioseparation technologies. In addition, he has created new hybrid proteins that allow simple bacterial
cells to react to human hormones and hormone-like chemicals. These cells are now being used to discover new drugs for various
disorders, as well as detect hormone-like pollutants in the environment. These technologies have now been requested by over 100
laboratories worldwide, and have the potential to significantly impact the way protein-based pharmaceuticals are manufactured
worldwide.
Advancing Production of Biofuel
Engineers at Ohio State are testing a new biobutanol fermentation technology at a recently constructed pilot plant in
Gahanna, Ohio.
Shang-Tian Yang, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, and his colleagues developed a way to double
the production of the biofuel butanol, which might someday replace gasoline in automobiles. With support from a
$1 million grant from Ohio Department of Development Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program, Yang partnered
with ButylFuel, a start-up company, to build the pilot plant.
Yang’s process improves on the conventional method for producing butanol in a bacterial fermentation tank. Normally,
he explains, bacteria could only produce a certain amount of butanol — perhaps 15 grams of the chemical for every
liter of water in the tank — before the tank would become too toxic for the bacteria to survive. Yang and his colleagues
developed a mutant strain of the bacterium clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactor containing bundles of polyester
fibers. In that environment, the mutant bacteria produced up to 30 grams of butanol per liter.
Once developed as a fuel, butanol could potentially be used in conventional automobiles in place of gasoline while
producing more energy than another alternative fuel, ethanol.“Today, the recovery and purification of butanol account
for about 40 percent of the total production cost,” explains Yang. “Because we are able to create butanol at higher
concentrations, we believe we can lower those costs and make biofuel production more economical.”
Instructor-Carlo Scaccia
Carlo Scaccia joined the Department last summer, bringing with him thirty years of experience in the Chemical Industry as
researcher and executive officer. His research interests encompass polymers, composites, adhesives/sealants/coatings, threephase reactor dynamics, electronic chemicals, fermentation/biochemistry, rheology, thermal oxidation, water treatment,
instrumentation and bench scale-pilot plant-commercial operations. After receiving his Ph.D. from SUNY, he joined Dow/
Union Carbide where he conducted and directed research on new process/product development. He subsequently joined
Ashland Inc. as VP of Research and later as Officer-VP and General Manager of the Specialty Polymers & Adhesives Division.
Most recently, he held the concurrent positions of General Manager US Operations and VP of Global Technology at Sensient
Technologies in the food and beverage flavors industry. The eleven patents he was granted have been commercialized. He has
published several articles and previously taught undergraduate courses at SUNY and OSU. He holds a registered professional
engineer license and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School- Advanced Management Program.
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Oxygen-Carrying Solutions for Transfusion
Medicine
Associate professor, Andre Palmer, and his research team are developing oxygencarrying solutions for transfusion medicine. One area of focus is on synthetic red
blood substitutes, which may one day lead to a universal blood supply.
In the United States, allogeneic red blood cell (RBC) transfusion has long been
considered an important treatment option for patients suffering from blood loss.
However, the recent emergence of infectious agents such as the H1N1 influenza
virus and others has put the blood supply at risk.
Currently, the American Red Cross tests donated blood for hepatitis B and C
viruses, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human T-cell lymphotropic virus,
syphilis, West Nile virus and the agent of Chagas disease. As a result the safety of
the U.S. blood supply, in terms of transfusion, transmitted diseases is quite good.
However as new infectious agents emerge the costs of a unit of blood increases;
since additional screening tests may have to be conducted before blood can be
distributed to health care providers. Of more concern is the fact that donated
blood may contain yet to be identified infectious agents. In addition there are new
concerns regarding the safety of blood transfusions following extended durations
of storage.
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The safety of the blood supply in developing countries is even more problematic,
since serious concerns still exist about the risks associated with blood transfusion
including: potential contamination by blood-bourn pathogens; fatal immunological
reactions; acute lung injury and even mistransfusion. To further compound the
problem, the availability of human blood is even more limited in emergency
situations such as wars or natural disasters. Therefore, it has been a long-term
goal of scientists and engineers to develop an efficacious and safe universal RBC
substitute for use in transfusion medicine.
Professor Andre Palmer and undergraduate researcher Mark Politz are
investigating novel strategies for purifying recombinant hemoglobins to meet
the increasing global demand for an artificial blood substitute.
Toward this goal, Palmer is developing a wide range of hemoglobin-based oxygen
carriers (HBOCs) including: polymerized hemoglobins, vesicle encapsulated
hemoglobins and recombinant hemoglobins. These HBOCs can be used as
RBC substitutes in transfusion medicine and oxygen delivery vehicles in tissue
engineering.
Professor Winston Ho and Group Develop High-Flux Desalination Membranes
Professor Winston Ho and his group members have developed an advanced membrane fabrication
technique, shown schematically in Figure 1, for the synthesis of high-flux water desalination membranes. In
this approach, a selected hydrophilic additive is incorporated into the interfacially polymerized thin film to
increase the hydrophilicity of the membrane. As shown in this figure, the aqueous solution containing the
selected hydrophilic additive and a diamine (m-phenylenediamine) is coated on the surface of microporous
polysulfone support with a typical pore size of 50 nm. An interfacial polymerization is then carried out
between the aqueous amine solution and a hydrocarbon solution containing trimesoyl chloride to synthesize
the high-flux reverse osmosis (RO) membrane. The hydrophilic additive incorporated in the membrane
has provided an additional pathway for water transport across the membrane, resulting in a very high flux
of water along with a high salt rejection both for brackish water (with 0.2% sodium chloride solution at 225
psi (1.55 MPa) pressure) and seawater (with 3.28% sodium chloride solution at 800 psi (5.51 MPa) pressure)
desalination applications. The fluxes have been significantly higher (about 100%) than those for the state-ofthe-art membranes in brackish water and seawater desalination.
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Surface of
Microporous
Support
Interfacial
Polymerization
with Acid
Chloride
Coating of the
Aqueous
Solution
High-Flux
RO
Membrane
Fig. 1. The schematic of the advanced membrane
fabrication technique – incorporating hydrophilic
moiety in interfacial polymerization.
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96
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94
30
Salt Rejection (%)
Flux (gfd)
Coating
Diamine
Solution
with
Hydrophilic
Moiety
Amide
(1660)
Amide
(1540)
Before Stability Test
30-Day Stability Test
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Time (Days)
Fig. 2. Membrane stability showing
constant flux and salt rejection for a run
of 30 days in brackish water desalination.
Fig. 3. No significant changes of the
membrane from the stability test detected
by FTIR.
The membrane has exhibited good stability. Figure 2 shows the constant flux and salt rejection for a run
of 30 days. There were no significant changes of the membrane from the stability test detected by Fourier
transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) as shown in Figure 3.
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This group has also developed a fouling resistant
coating based on crosslinked poly(ethylene
glycol) for the high flux membranes. The coating
on the top of the high flux membrane not only
provides strong fouling resistances to tannic acid,
a common foulant encountered in brackish water
desalination and to the sodium salt of alginic acid
derived from seaweed in seawater desalination,
but also can protect the membrane during the
rolling operation in the fabrication of a membrane
element. The membrane will be evaluated by the
US Navy for the future shipboard desalination.
This work has been sponsored by the Office of
Naval Research.
Lowrie Lectures
The 2009 Lowrie Lectures were held on May 7-8, with this year’s lecturer being Dr. Gabor A. Somorjai, a University
Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Somorjai received his Ph.D.
degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960 and after 4 years at IBM, he returned to
Berkeley as an Assistant Professor where he has been Professor of Chemistry since 1972. He was designated University Professor in 2002 and also serves as Director of the Surface Science and Catalysis Program at the Center of
Advanced Materials at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Professor Somorjai has educated 125 Ph.D. students and more than 250 postdoctoral fellows, about 100 of them
hold faculty positions and many more are leaders in industry. He is the author of more than 1,000 scientific papers
in the fields of surface chemistry, heterogeneous catalysis, and solid state chemistry. He has written three textbooks,
Principles of Surface Chemistry, Prentice Hall, 1972; Chemistry in Two Dimensions: Surfaces, Cornell University Press,
1981; and Introduction to Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, Wiley-Interscience, 1994; and a monograph, Adsorbed
Monolayers on Solid Surfaces, Springer-Verlag, 1979.
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Among his many honors are the National Medal of Science, membership in the National Academy of
Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Langmuir Prize, the Wolf Prize, the
Henry Albert Palladium Medal, and a number of research awards from the American Chemical Society
including the Priestley Medal and 8 Honorary Doctorates.
Lecture I: Molecular Foundations of Catalytic Selectivity by Metals
Heterogeneous metal catalysts are nanoparticles that carry out reactions at high reactant gas pressures or in the liquid phase. Model surfaces were used to study heterogeneous
catalytic reactions in order to control and monitor the atomic surface structure, composition and reaction intermediates while simultaneously measuring reaction rates and
selectivities. To obtain quantitative correlations between catalytic reaction kinetics and the molecular factors that control reaction dynamics. Reactions were found to induce
restructuring of the metal surfaces and mobility of adsorbed molecules. Nanosize transition metal catalysts achieve facile restructuring and rapid change in surface composition
under reaction conditions as their low atom coordination permits rapid bond rearrangements. Improved techniques for molecular studies of surfaces that provide better time
resolution and spatial resolution will enhance our ability to study the dynamics of surfaces, which are key to both activity and selectivity during catalysis. The control of metal
nanoparticle size and shape provides opportunities to achieve superior reaction selectivity.
Lecture II: Surface Science: Creator of Health, Wealth and New Sources of Energy
The catalytic converter on automobiles greatly improved the air quality of Los Angeles. Air separation to oxygen and nitrogen is at the heart of water purification technologies.
Chemical manufacturing to produce the desired product selectively without waste byproducts is the challenge of chemical process technologies and biotechnologies which are
commonly called “green chemistry”. The chemical, mechanical, optical, electrical and magnetic properties of surfaces studied on the molecular scale led to developments of
new high technology industries that have enriched the United States.
2009 Advisory Board Meeting
The Advisory Board Meeting was held March 19, 2009, with attending board
members Linda Broadbelt, Terry Chern, Nancy Dawes, Karen Murphy, John
Salladay, Sunil Satija, Bob Tatterson, Drew Weber, and Mike Winfield.
Department Chair Stuart Cooper discussed department highlights, new faculty
hire David Wood, the increasing enrollment numbers of the undergraduate
program, and the University’s plan to switch from quarters to semesters.
Rosemary Hill, Director of Engineering Career Services, informed the group
that the Department’s career services program is one of the best in the nation
and CBE students are very pleased with the services they receive.
Brian Endres, Coordinator of Academic Advising, talked about recruitment
and outreach and how the Department is doing a better job engaging female
and minority students.
Dean Greg Washington discussed changes being made by the College of
Engineering and plans for the Koffolt Building Campaign.
Faculty member Jim Rathman discussed possible revisions to the B.S. program’s
educational objectives. Board members liked the focus of the new objectives on
expected accomplishments of alumni and suggested adding volunteerism (nonprofessional service) to the list. Board members also suggested putting more
emphasis on the ability of graduates to integrate knowledge from different fields
and the expectation that alumni will be successful in a wide range of diverse
careers.
Faculty Member Dave Tomasko and Brian Endres addressed the group
regarding undergraduate research noting that there has been an increase in
undergraduate research opportunities and an effort to increase the number
of CBE students who graduate with honors distinction. The next speaker was
faculty member Barbara Wyslouzil who presented her research on how aerosols
affect the environment, health and various technologies.
The meeting concluded with a discussion among board members and Stuart
Cooper regarding undergraduate enrollment pressure, interactions with
industry and department resources.
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Pictured above:
First Row: Nancy Dawes and Karen Murphy
Second Row: Terry Chern and Linda Broadbelt
Third Row: Bob Tatterson, Mike Winfield, Drew Weber, and Sunil Satija
Undergraduate Program
Course Enrollment
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10
22
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H783
Spring 2009
Students Course Instructor
63
201
Dr. Jack Zakin
121
420/520 Dr. Martin Feinberg
Dr. Isamu Kusaka
0
489
Dr. James Rathman
23
509
Dr. Michael Paulaitis
115
523
Dr. John Clay (Adjunct)
122
610
Dr. Umit Ozkan
24
734
Dr. James Rathman
110
750
Dr. Stuart Cooper
83
43
24
10
8
11
9
762
764
772
774
775
693
H783
John Corn
Dr. Jeffrey Chalmers
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Dr. W.S. Winston Ho
Dr. Kurt Koelling
Various
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Course Title
Chemical Processes & Calculations I
Chemical Processes & Calculations II
Professional Practice in Industry
Thermodynamics I
Thermodynamics II
Transport Phenomena II
Transport Phenomena III
Fuel Cell Catalysis
Novel Separation Processes
Process Design
Biomedical Nanotechnology
Air Pollution
Polymer Nano Enigneering
Experimental Design
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Honors Research
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Course Title
Chemical Processes & Calculations II
60
Transport Phenomena I
Summer 2009
Students Course
118
630
19
3
0
755
693
H783
Autumn 2009
Students Course
110
200
29
420
520
0
489
110
508
106
521
114
624
77
10
31
13
84
9
2
760
761
765
773
790
693
H783
50
Professional Practice in Industry
Thermodynamics II
40
Unit Operations
Kinetics
30
Molecular Informatics
Profession of Chemical & Biomolecular
20
Engineering
Process Development
10
Process Design
Principles of Sustainable Energy
0
Polymer Membranes
‘05
‘06
‘07
‘08
‘09
Rheology of Fluids
BS Degrees Awarded
Undergraduate Research
Undergraduate Honors Research
(Thesis Track)
Instructor
John Corn
Carlo Scaccia (Adjunct)
Bob Johnson (Adjunct)
Various
Various
Course Title
Unit Operations Lab
Instructor
Dr. Umit Ozkan
Dr. Andre Palmer
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Chemical Processes & Calculations I
Transport Phenomena I
Dr. James Rathman
Dr. Michael Paulaitis
Dr. Isamu Kusaka
Dr. Carlo Scaccia (Adjunct)
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Bob Urban
Dr. L.S. Fan
Dr. Jack Zakin
Dr. Jessica Winter
Dr. Stuart Cooper
Dr. James Rathman
Various
Various
Professional Practice in Industry
Thermodynamics I
Transport Phenomena II
Minorities
12
0
24
91
32
118
Instructor
Dr. Kurt Koelling
Dr. Jessica Winter
Dr. Andre Palmer
Dr. James Rathman
Dr. Umit Ozkan
Dr. Isamu Kusaka
John Clay (Adjunct)
Dr. S.T. Yang
Dr. L.S. Fan
Dr. Umit Ozkan
Dr. Jeff Chalmers
Dr. Bhavik Bakshi
Dr. S. Lee
Dr. Barbara Wyslouzil
Dr. L. James Lee
Dr. James Rathman
Various
Various
Women
Winter 2009
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66
200
84
201
Chemical Process Safety
Undergraduate Research
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Process Dynamics & Controls
Engineering Economics & Strategy
Chemical Process Plants
Principles of Biochemical Engineering
Introduction to High Polymer Engineering
Colloids & Surfaces
Undergraduate Research
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13
13
2009 Placement Record for Undergraduates
Graduates of our program continue to have a strong placement record both within industry and within graduate and professional programs. The percentages provided here
are based on senior exit surveys at the time of graduation.
Thirty-seven percent of our graduates will be going directly to industry with their B.S. degrees. About 20% of our students will be going on to graduate or professional
school. Close to 17% of our students have accepted positions in Ohio and will stay in the state to pursue their post graduation plans. Students will be working at various
corporations such as Exxon Mobil, the Dow Chemical Company, Procter and Gamble, and DuPont.
A number of our graduates received Latin Honors, With Distinction Honors or With Honors in Engineering. Latin honors are defined as follows: a cumulative grade point
average (GPA) of 3.5-3.69 is Cum Laude; 3.70-3.89 is Magna Cum Laude; and 3.90-4.00 is Summa Cum Laude. Thirty-seven percent of our students graduated with some
level of Latin Honors. A student who graduates “With Distinction” is an honors student (greater than a 3.4 GPA) who has completed a senior honors research thesis. A
student who graduates “With Honors in Engineering” has completed a three-prong program consisting of completing a required number of honors courses, participation in
community service, leadership and outreach as well participation in “investigational studies” which typically includes completing a research paper or thesis or completing
a minor. Thirteen students graduated with Honors in Engineering and nine students graduated With Distinction in various disciplines.
Engineering Career Services (ECS) welcomes all employers to register, to recruit Ohio State engineering students and graduates. There is no cost to register and no fees for
ECS services. If you, or someone you know, is interested in hiring Ohio State students for co-op experiences, internships or for full time placement, please contact Rosemary
Hill, Director of Engineering Career Services at (614) 292-6651. You can read more about the services offered through ECS by visiting http://career.eng.ohio-state.edu.
14
2009 B.S. Graduates:
Autumn 2008 (December 2008)
Matthew Ehrman
Paul Gardner
Bryan Gebhart
Jeffrey MacLean
Laura Werner
Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering;
Hired by Procter & Gamble, Ohio
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas
Carol Udoh
Spring 2009 (June 2009)
Edward Aprahamian
Joseph Braucher
Craig Buckley
Winter 2009 (March 2009)
Antonius Gondo
Conor Hawkins
Christopher Potts
Zachary Smith
Returned to Homeland
No information provided
Pursuing J.D., Seton Hall University
Seeking Employment
Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering;
Hired by General Mills, Ohio
Kyle Dy
Serra Elliott
Laura Fisher
Mark Foster
Jaykumar Grandhi
Hired by Capital One, Virginia
Hired by Labs, Pennsylvania
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With Distinction
in Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
Seeking Employment
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction
Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Further Education, not specified
John Groman
Joseph Groszek
Tad Grubbs
Kimberly Hoang
Alexander Hodge
Jeffrey Hook
Donna Jeffers
Cory Johnston
Brandon Jonas
James Knight
Jennifer Kovach
Arthur Lee
Samuel Lentz
Christopher Lewe
Jonathan Lin
Cathryn Marshall
Crystal Martin
Samantha Moermond
Samuel Moore
Zachary Murnane
Halle Murray
Joshua Nye
Amanda Phoebe
Anand Ramanathan
Jordan Redman
Shanon Rogers
Eric Sacia
Brian Setzler
Leslie Shumaker
Jeanne Skebo
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by RoviSys Co., Ohio
Seeking Employment
Graduated Magna Cum Laude;
Hired by Procter & Gamble, Ohio
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With Honors in
Engineering; Pursuing M.D., The Ohio State University
Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Auburn University
Hired by James Hardie Building Products, California
Hired by Entrotech, California
Hired by Cargill, Georgia
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction in
Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D.
in Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Accenture, Ohio
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Owens-Illinois (O-I), Ohio
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction in
Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Hired by Dow
Corning Corp, Kentucky
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by Marathon Oil
Seeking Employment
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Pursuing Ph.D in Chemical
Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Seeking Employment
Hired by Scotts Co., Ohio
Hired Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio
Hired by Camp, Dresser, and McKee, Florida
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Hired by Arcelor Mittal, Minnesota
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With Distinction in
Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D.
in Chemical Engineering, Univeristy of California, Berkeley
Graduated Cum Laude; Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering, Georgia Tech University
Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by Procter & Gamble,
Ohio
Hired by Scotts Co., Ohio
Nicholas Smith
Brittany Stechschulte
John Titone
Andrew Vail
Kathleen Vermeersch
Yao Wang
David Webster
Steinn Welch
James Westerfield
Henry White
Patrick Wilson
Thomas Yeh
Seeking Employment
Hired by Cargill, Ohio
Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction in
Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Hired by
Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory
Hired by Schlumberger, Arkansas
Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering
Pursuing M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Georgia
Tech University
Seeking employment
Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Auburn
University
Seeking employment
Seeking employment
Graduated Cum Laude; Pursuing M.D., not specified
Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Battelle Memorial
Institute, Ohio
Graduated Cum Laude, with Distinction in
Engineering, with Honors in Engineering; Pursuing a
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, University of
Michigan
Summer 2009 (August 2009)
Abigail Brown
Thomas Czechowski
Brett Grygo
Ahmed Hassan
Mark Hilkert
Matthew Kanitz
Jennifer Kirian
Michelle Koegler
Daniel Lamone
Karl LaPointe
Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering;
Hired by General Mills, Ohio
Seeking Employment
Hired by Sunoco, Inc., Ohio
Seeking Employment
Further Education, not specified
Seeking Employment
Graduated Cum Laude; Pursuing M.B.A.,
Bowling Green State University
Graduated Magna Cum Laude;
Seeking Employment
Pursuing M.S. in Chemical
Engineering, The Ohio State University
Graduated Cum Laude;
Hired by Dow Corning Corp, Michigan
15
2009 B.S. Graduates Continued
John Meister
Jeremy Mink
Eric Neidig
Alana Pevets
Nathan Reed
Katie Reinaker
Ellis Robinson
Dennis Stoltz
Leeza Thompson
Man Tran
Lindsay Volpenhein
16
Blake Washington
Jean Wheasler
Katherine Wilson
Cameron Wohleber
Hired by Univenture, Ohio
Graduated Magna Cum Laude;
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Hired by Procter & Gamble, Ohio
Seeking Employment
Graduated Cum Laude;
Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas
Graduated Magna Cum Laude,
With Honors in Engineering;
Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Seeking Employment
Graduated Magna Cum Laude;
Hired by Dow Chemical, Michigan
Seeking Employment
Graduated Magna Cum Laude,
With Honors in Engineering;
Hired by Dow Chemical, Texas
Hired by General Mills, Illinois
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With
Distinction in Engineering, With Honors
in Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Graduated Cum Laude;
Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas
Hired by Owens-Illinois, Ohio
Autumn 2009 (December 2009)
Abdullahi Ali
Ryan Bradstreet
Michael Heller
Mohamed Keyse
James Mekker
Joseph Taris
Pursuing M.S. in Chemical
Engineering, The Ohio State
University
Seeking Employment
Graduated Magna Cum Laude;
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Seeking Employment
Undergraduate student, Aaron Nimrick,
experiments with DNA extraction.
Undergraduate Enrollment
Number of B.S. Degrees Per Year
(number of students)
Shows Total Students, Number Granted to Women and Number Granted to Ethnic Minorities
700
Pre-Majors
Majors
Total
600
75
70
65
500
60
55
400
Chem. E Total
50
Women
45
Ethnic Min
40
300
35
30
200
25
20
100
15
10
0
5
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
0
2005
2006
2007
2009
2008
17
190
180
170
160
150
140
130
120
110
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Tracking ChBE 200 Enrollment
ChBE 200 is the department's first
major course. This table shows total
enrollment in that course and the
break down enrollment of women
and ethnic minority students.
Previous years include only students
who passed the course with a C- or
better
Female and Ethnic Minority Trends in
Total Department Enrollment
176
700
665
156
600
125
591
500
100
486
428
400
86
300
Total Students
Women
Ethnic Min
336
200
29
25
21
9
2006
6
2007
9
2008
34
16
40
100
18
0
2009
2010
172
163
42
52
51
2008
2009
2010
94
112
120
23
38
2006
2007
2009-2010 Undergraduate
Scholarship Information
A total of 153 students were awarded undergraduate
scholarships in the Chemical & Biomolecular program.
The vast majority of those students were current majors,
although a small amount went to recruit high ability first
year students as well. A total of $109,600 was awarded
to students heading into the 2009-2010 school year. This
year the department awarded more scholarships but gave
out less money than the previous year. This has resulted in
a lower average award per student than in previous years.
Huge increases in enrollment and variability in many
endowments have caused these trends.
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Trends in data from financial aid show that the number
and amount of both student and parent loans have been
increasing. Both Ohio State tuition and University financial
support have increased yearly. However, since the increase
in scholarship support hasn’t been able to keep up with
tuition increases, engineering students and their families
have had to increase their debt levels to cover the additional
costs. In the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Department, department scholarships from alumni and
corporate donors help defray a small part of the loan burden
for many of our students.
Department scholarships are determined mainly by merit,
however, when a scholarship specifies that a student’s need
be considered, both merit and need are taken into account.
We thank those of our alumni who have established
scholarship endowments for this purpose as well as our
corporate donors who provide scholarships on an annual
basis.
DOW Chemical CompanyDow Outstanding Junior Award
Chris Thurber
Allan I. Gordon Undergraduate Scholarship
for Study in Biochemical Engineering
Christina Elias
Emily Smith
Katherine Kolakowski
Michael Yingling
Todd David Harris Memorial Scholarship
Benjamin Doup
Stephen Necamp
Daniel Valco
The Howard R. Steele Memorial Scholarship
in Chemical Engineering
Ashley Fortman
John Logue
Ryan Gallagher
Tiarah Tanyhill
Stephen Kinsley
Laura VanVliet
Harry B. Warner Scholarship
Nicholas Koenig
Alexander Vermejan
The Michael D. Winfield Scholarship
Elise Ferguson
Paul Bates Scholarship
Steven Adams
David Diaz-Rivera
Japheth Pritchett
Alexander Sarmiento
Ibrahim Bamba
Justin Mason
Darian Richardson
Milton & Karen Hendricks Scholarship
Nathan Arroyo
Beth Johnson
Brooke Laing
Charles Lorence
Scott Shaheen
Smith E. Howland Scholarship
Yuki Uchida
Webster B. Kay Scholarship in Chemical
Engineering
Robert Kappers
Amanda Janasov
Robert Wensing
Lubrizol Foundation Scholarship
Beth Johnson
Steven Ottobre
Aldrich Syverson Scholarship
Adam Granitto
David Schnell
Tanner Williams
Zhi Zheng
Fred H. Winterkamp Memorial Scholarship
Nicholas Cotton
Alexander Haas
Daniel Morris
Cory Noyes
Mark Politz
Derek Reichel
H. Richard Unkel Chemical Engineering Class of 1941
Lukas Brooks
Olivia Kindshuh
Sarah Koop
Joshua Martin
Sara Vinson
Amy Zuo
David H. George Chemical Engineering Scholarship
Roxanne Demarest
Joseph Fahrenkamp
Natasia Haupt
Anthony Kaiser
Gina Manacci
Daniel Manning
Daniel Marrinan
Aaron Nimrick
Amber Owens
Terhi Reponen
Madeline Shirk
Douglas Stauffer
Zachary Tangeman
Shuyang Wang
Ling-Shun Wong
William R. & Doris M. Harris Scholarship in
Chemical Engineering
Samuel Bayham
Stephen Berling
William Brigode
Robert Enouen
Annemarie Fox
Vincent Frascello
Michael Hartman
Thaddaus Huber
Richard McConnell
Allison Payne
Jason Porter
Kevin Sutton
Christopher Thurber
Jessica Tufts
Harold W. Almen Scholarship
Dimitry Burdjalov
Michael Frangiamore
Thomas Grimme
Jean Johnson
Katherine Kinstedt
Daniel Kromer
Rebecca Murphy
Timothy Regan
Brian Setzler
Mandy Still
Matt Tackett
Robert Waters
The George S. Bonn Scholarship
Nariman Alkhatib
Shilp Antani
Chris Bowles
Fawn Bradshaw
Sean Hawkins
Steven Hwang
Sean Kernan
Jennifer Kirian
Chelsea Liao
Steven Lim
Joseph Linsenmeyer
Bradley Moore
William Murch
Tri Nguyen
Daniel Savel
Nahien Sharif
Yuhao Sun
The Samuel S. and Grace Hook Johnston
Memorial Chemical Engineering Scholarship
Fund
Jacquelyn Pittman
Leslie Vanderkolk
J.R. Boothe Scholarship Fund
Robert Rudd
Dorothy J. & Herbert L. Fenburr Scholarship
Ryan Bradstreet
Abigail Brown
Richard Ciccotti
Anthony Constantino
Justin Goode
Arman Haghighi
Robert Hoelzle
Jacob Huggins
Douglas Knapke
Michelle Koegler
David Lang
Karl Lapointe
Wai Meng Lei
Joseph Lollini
James Mekker
Sara Mihaloew
Benjamin Pierson
Justin Reed
Jessica Rittner
Parth Shah
Justin Spitzer
David Tarai
Lindsay Volpenhein
Qi Wang
Katherine Wilson
Whitney Wutzler
Sing Keat Chew
Daniel Garrison
Michael Heller
Matthew Isabel
Andrew Kusanke
John Larison
Brenna McNamee
Jeremy Mink
Garrett Ringler
Evan Smith
Laurin Turowski
Jean Wheasler
William H. Whirl Scholarship
Melissa Grigger
2009 Graduating Class
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Graduate Program
Ranking
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The 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings of engineering
graduate programs placed the Lowrie Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering at #27. The College of Engineering was also
ranked #27 in the nation. While the college rankings are based in good
part on objective measures such as research funding, number of Ph.D.
graduates, number of publications, etc., the departmental rankings
are based on subjective surveys of deans of engineering and industrial
executives. In 2010, we expect the National Research Council to publish
a listing of departmental rankings that will be more quantitatively based.
We have submitted our data for the NRC exercise and are guardedly
optimistic that our department will receive a higher ranking from that
analysis compared to the U.S. News survey. In any case, these findings
in the table are good news for the Department.
Ohio State College of Engineering
Engineering Specialties
Aerospace
Biomedical
Chemical
Civil
Computer Engineering
Electrical
Environmental/Env. Health nr
Industrial/Manufacturing
Materials
Mechanical
Nuclear
Faculty Productivity
The following table, relating to faculty research and our PhD program,
reinforces that our faculty are highly productive. Since 2005, we have
averaged a graduation rate of 15.4 PhD students per year and a ratio
of 0.94 Ph.D. degrees per faculty member. It is significant that in 2005
and 2006, we were fifth in the nation in the graduation of chemical
engineering doctoral students. This is noteworthy as the leading
departments in this category typically have many more faculty members
than Ohio State.
Total Faculty
Publications
Publications per Faculty
Books or Book Chapters
Patents
Total Grad Students
Grad Students/Faculty
Ph.D. Degrees Granted
Ph.D. Degrees/Faculty
Research Expenditures*
Research Exp/Faculty
2006
26
2007
26
2008
26
2009
29
2010
27
20
32
34
21
24
37
18
17
23
15
19
32
39
21
19
44
17
14
20
14
21
26
36
23
26
39
19
14
21
Nr
21
27
38
29
26
39
18
14
20
Nr
22
27
36
20
20
39
21
16
22
13
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
15
17
17
17
18
76
73
89
78
91
5.06
4.29
5.23
4.58
5.06
9
18
11
8
14
5
9
1
2
3
83
77
96
95
95
5.53
4.53
5.65
5.58
5.58
19
21
11
11
15
1.27
1.24
0.65
0.65
0.88
5,121,000 9,032,000 12,249,000 12,462,000 13,332,000
341,400
531,290
720,530
733,060 740, 670
(Data from the Ohio State University Foundation (fiscal year))
Graduate Degrees Granted
Research Expenditures
Winter Quarter 2009
For the past three years, our research expenditures
(data from the Ohio State Research Foundation)
have been outstanding, especially since they are
based on the efforts of 17 faculty. On a per-capita
basis, expenditures averaged over $700k per year
during fiscal years 2007-2009. Our faculty are
among the most productive at Ohio State and near
the top of all Chemical Engineering departments
in the nation.
Master of Science
Zhengzheng Fei
Hua Song
David Winkel, Jr (non-thesis)
Doctor of Philosophy
Wu Ge
Fangxing Li
Juan Sanz-Valero
Rustin Shenkman
Yuan Wen
An Zhang
Advisors
L. James Lee
Umit Ozkan
Barbara Wyslouzil
Advisor
Jacques Zakin
Liang-Shih Fan
Shang-Tian Yang
Jeffrey Chalmers
Shang-Tian Yang
Shang-Tian Yang
Spring Quarter 2009
Master of Science
Megan Balog
Patrick Bennett
Claudia Berdugo
Elizabeth Daly
Ching-Suei Hsu
Xiaoxia Jin
Vikas Khanna
Ning Liu
Manish Talreja
JiaPeng Xu
Chaofang Yue
Doctor of Philosophy
Jeffrey Ellis
Hua Song
Yun Wu
Advisor
Michael Paulaitis
Shang-Tian Yang
Jeffrey Chalmers
Bhavik Bakshi
Shang-Tian Yang
Jeffrey Chalmers
Bhavik Bakshi
Shang-Tian Yang
Isamu Kusaka
L. James Lee
Michael Paulaitis
Advisor
David Tomasko
Umit Ozkan
Barbara Wyslouzil
Doctor of Philosophy
Vikas Khanna
Lawrence Zimmerman
Autumn Quarter 2009
Master of Science
Meimei Liu
Doctor of Philosophy
Michael Boehm
Zhengzheng Fei
Christopher Kagarise
Zhao Yu
Master of Science
Brian Fraley
Hyung Kim
Qussai Marashdeh
Advisor
Shang-Tian Yang
Liang-Shih Fan
Jacques Zakin
Advisor
Umit Ozkan
Advisor
Kurt Koelling
L. James Lee
Kurt Koelling
Liang-Shih Fan
$14
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$12
Graduate Student Fellowships
$10
$8
University Fellowships
Uddyalok Banerjee
Niranjani Deshpande
Jorge Fontes
Daniel Knight
Erin Landers
Kalpesh Mahajan
Hrishikesh Munj
Distinguished University Fellowship
Yinming Du
Summer Quarter 2009
Advisor
Bhavik Bakshi
L. James Lee
Total Expenditures
Indirect Cost
$6
$4
$2
$0
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Graduate Program Seminar Series
Winter 2009
Spring 2009
6/4
01/22 William J. Mitsch, Professor of Environment and
Natural Resources, Director, Wilma H. Schiermeier
Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, The Ohio
State University, “Ecological Engineering: Saving the
Planet with a Sustainable Engineering”
4/2
Doug Goetz, Professor, Department of Chemical
and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio University,
“Engineering Novel Vascular-Based Therapeutics
and Diagnostics”
4/9
Chien Ho, Director, Pittsburgh NMR Center for
Biomedical Research, Professor, Department of
Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University,
“Tracking Immune Cell Migration In Vivo by
MRI: A New Non-invasive Approach to Detect
Graft Rejection After Transplantation”
Summer 2009
02/05 Michael Deem, John W. Cox Professor of
Bioengineering, Professor of Physics & Astronomy,
Rice University, “Vaccine Design for Influenza and
Dengue Fever”
02/12 Glenn Lipscomb, Professor and Chair, Chemical
and Environmental Engineering, The University of
Toledo, “Membrane Module Design”
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02/19 Gary Patterson, Professor Emeritus, Chemical
and Biological Engineering, Missouri University of
Science and Technology, “Correlation for Yield of
Competitive Reactions in Reactors with Turbulent
Mixing”
02/26 Subhas Sikdar, Associate Director for Science,
National Risk Management Research Laboratory,
US Environmental Protection Agency, “Process or
Product Sustainability and Applicable Metrics”
4/16
Ted Knowlton, Technical Director, Particulate
Solid Research, Inc., Chicago, IL, USA, “When
Gas Bypassing Occurs in Deep Fluidized Beds of
Geldart Group A Particles and How to Prevent It”
4/23
Safety Seminar
4/30
Sankaran Sundaresan, Professor, Department
of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University,
“Constitutive Modeling of Slow Flows of Dense
Granular Assemblies”
5/7
03/05 Ying Liu, Research Engineer, BP America,
“Computational Fluid Dynamics: Modeling of
Multiscale Chemical Reactors”
03/12 John S. Olson, Ralph and Dorothy Looney Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,
Rice University, “Hemoglobin Gates and Tunnels:
Different Ways to Capture O2 and Detoxify NO”
Timothy Gutowski, Professor, Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, “Thermodynamics, Sustainability and
Manufacturing”
5/8
Gabor Somorjai, Lowrie Lecture I - 11:30 a.m.
Knowlton Hall, Room 250, 275 W. Woodruff
Avenue, Professor, Department of Chemistry
and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
University of California, Berkeley, “Molecular
Foundations of Catalytic Selectivity by Metals”
Gabor Somorjai, Lowrie Lecture II - 10:30 a.m.,
Physics Research Building, Room 1080, 191 W.
Woodruff Avenue, “Surface Science. Creator of
Health, Wealth and New Sources of Energy”
7/20
C. B. Mullins, Professor, University of Texas at
Austin, “Surface Chemistry of Model Catalysts”
8/4
Y. (Ishi) Talmon, Department of Chemical
Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology, “State-of-the-Science Electron
Microscopy of Nanostructured Liquid Systems”
8/28
An Ping Zeng, Institute of Bioprocess and
Biosystems, Hamburg University of Technology,
“From Systems Biology to Biosystems Engineering”
Autumn 2009
9/24
Di Gao, Assistant Professor and W. K. Whiteford
Faculty Fellow, Department of Chemical and
Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh,
“Virtual Reality: Durable Superhydrophobic
Coatings for Anti-icing and Drag Reduction”
10/8
Chih Ming Ho, Ben Rich – Lockheed Martin
Professor, UCLA Distinguished Professor,
Director of Center for Cell Control, Department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Henry
Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science,
“From Materials, Devices, Systems to Control of
Complex Systems”
Graduate Student Awards
10/15 Jayajit Das, Assistant Professor, Battelle Center for
Mathematical Medicine, The Research Institute at
Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Biophysics Graduate
Program and Department of Pediatrics, “Membrane
Proximal Signaling in Lymphocytes: An interplay
between co-operative processes and stochastic
fluctuations”
Ashutosh Bhabhe: Won an NSF travel award to attend
the 18th International Conference on Nucleation and
Atmospheric Aerosols that will be held August 10 -14th,
2009 in Prague, Czech Republic. He will be presenting
the work he did together with Somnath Sinha and
Hartawan Lakmono on the condensation of Ar in
supersonic nozzles.
10/22 Mariah S. Hahn, Assistant Professor, Department
of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University,
“Programming Mesenchymal Stem Cell Lineage
Progression”
Elizabeth Biddinger: First Place in the Graduate
Division of the Ohio Fuel Cell Symposium poster
competition held May 27-28, 2009; North American
Catalysis Society Kokes Travel Awards to attend the
21st NACS Conference in San Francisco to present her
work; AIChE CRE Division Travel Award for travel
to the 2009 Annual AIChE meeting in Nashville, TN;
Ohio State University Council of Graduate Students Ray
Travel Award to attend the AIChE National meeting
in Nashville, TN; Ohio State Women in Engineering
Distinguished Graduate Student Award; Department
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dow
Fellowship.
10/29 Aravind Asthagiri, Dow Chemical Company
Foundation, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering
Department, University of Florida
11/5
Graduate Research Initiative Program (GRIP)
SEMINAR:
Manish Talreja, “Towards Understanding CO2 Assisted
Nanoscale Processing of Polymer Thin Films”
Michael Vilt, “Separation of Cephalexin using
Supported Liquid Membranes with Strip Dispersion”
Andrew Tong, “Design, Construction and Preliminary
tests of the Sub-Pilot scale Syngas Chemical Looping
System”
11/19 David C. Martin, Karl W. and Renate Boer Professor
and Chair, Materials Science and Engineering, The
University of Delaware
12/3
Xiao Cheng Zeng, Ameritas University Professor,
Willa Cather Professor, Department of Chemistry,
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, “Computer-Aided
Nanoscience Research: Nanoice, Nanoclusters, and
Superhydrophobicity”
Hyunkyu Choi: Best Poster Award at the 2009 IMR
Materials Week.
Kelley Distel: Accepted to attend the 2009 National
School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering. Kelley will
spend one week in Oak Ridge National Laboratory
learning about neutron scattering and doing sample
experiments on the High Flux Isotope Reactor and/
or Spallation Neutron Source. She will then go to the
Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab to
learn about X-ray scattering and to do more sample
experiments. The entire two week course including
travel and accommodation is paid for.
Nandita Lakshminarayanan: North American
Catalysis Society Kokes Travel Awards to attend the
21st NACS Conference in San Francisco to present
her work.
Hartawan Laksmono: Travel award from the
American Association for Aerosol Research to
attend the Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN
October 26 – 30th.
Ning Liu: Won the Alumni Grants for Graduate
Research and Scholarship from The Ohio State
University Graduate School.
Shreyas Rao: Third Place in the Edward F. Hayes
Graduate Research Forum Poster Presentation at
The Ohio State University, April 2009.
Hua Song: North American Catalysis Society Kokes
Travel Awards to attend the 21st NACS Conference
in San Francisco to present her work.
Michael Vilt: Winner of the 2009 Elias Klein
Founders’ Travel Award from the North American
Membrane Society. Won the First Place Poster
Award in the Membrane Applications category
in the Poster paper Competition at the Annual
Meeting of the North American Membrane Society
(NAMS) in Charlestown, SC on June 20 – 24, 2009.
Chi Yen: Winner of the 2009 Travel Award from the
North American Membrane Society.
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1936 - Joseph G. Mravec
1939 - Ira Joseph Kail
1940 - Charles Boardman III
2009 Alumni Donors
1941 - Thomas F. Lavery, David
Thomas, Earl Godfrey Anderson
1942 - Donald S. Arnold, Randal E.
Bailey
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1952 - James F. Froning, Donald E.
Haupt, C. Richard Heil, Charles J.
Schmitz
1962 - David E. Bidstrup, Kenneth J.
Fulk, Richard L. Hoffman, Dean Snider,
Michael J. Sorocak, Michael D. Winfield
1953 - Robert A. Bates, G. Clyde Bazell,
Roger L. Briggs, Donald E. Findlay,
Wilfred C. Ling, Dr. Manoj Kumar D.
Sanghvi, Harold L Stelzer Jr., James
Lloyd Wilson
1963 - Nelson W. Barnhill, Gary L.
Beeler, Robert P. Kasper, Fred A.
Shaffstall, Kay Logan Snider
1954 - Gilbert E. Raines
1943 - Halvor S. Christianson, Dalton
F. Drake, James R. Randall, Roy E.
Schneider, Carlyle E. Shoemaker, James
C Wynd
1955 - Wendell B. Hammond, Jr.,
1944 - Wallace L. Bostwick, Clarence A.
Haverly, Jr., Edward W. Powell
1957 - Walter R. Andrews, Jr., Walter A.
Flack, Jon D. Helms, Sung Ho Hong
1947 - William K. Fell, Thurman L.
Graves, Lewis C. Hullinger, Herbert
G. Krane, J. Bruce Martin, Bryce H.
McMullen, Donald F. Stauffer
1958 - Charles N. Carpenter, John J.
Connelly, James R. Facer, Werner S.
Lichtenstein, Thomas R. Loy, Valdis E.
Petritis, Richard M. Smith, James W.
Stark, Lawrence R. Steele
1948 - Richard A. Arnold, Robert
E. Kraus, Manuel Ramos, R. Ted
Scharenberg, Robert M. Tarr
1949 - Paul E. Bates, Gordon G. Cross,
J. Howard Kerstetter, Jr., Donald R.
Roberts, Roland I. Spencer
1964 - Michael B. Cutlip, William R.
Ferris, Alan K. Kochsiek, James B. Sapp
1956 - Robert A. Cody, William David
Coe, Herbert H. Fanning
1959 - Lee W. Addie, James O. Albery,
Ronald M. Kovach, Darryl J. Von
Lehmden, Gerald A. Wilcox
1950 - Walter E. Donham, Walter T.
George, Verne R. Rinehart, Jean Maurer
Scharenberg, Richard L. Scott, Ralph E.
Sieber, Robert E. Thompson
1960 - Virgil L. Anderson, Carl
Brooks, Jr., Guy A. Crossley, Edgar W.
Fasig, Jr., Donal T. Grube, Orville W.
Gruebmeyer, Jr., George M. Hauswirth,
Gordon R. Howard, Warren E.
McAdams, Phillip John McAteer, Lee R.
Stewart, Irwin Weinstock
1951 - Charles L. Dornbusch, Richard
N. Eilerman, John R. Parkinson,
Norbert F. Reinert, David A. Strang,
Robert B. Weiser
1961 - Paul R. Bigley, Richard B.
Cooper, Ronald L. Follmer, Jack Arnold
Hammond, Ronald D. Harris, John N.
Rapach, Larry E. Woodworth
1965 - Oliver L. Davies, Frederick H.
Flor, Jr., John P. Gegner, Arthur H.
Morth, Frederick J. Rerko, Gary L.
Street, Michael C. Royer, Eugene N.
Wheeler
1966 - William F. Deerhake, Thomas E.
Fitz, Sr., William G. Lowrie, Glenn L.
McKee
1967 - C. Douglas Dunlap, F. William
Hauschildt Jr., Wilma Diskant Jancuk,
Graham F. Painter, Jr.
1968 - Dean Howell Reber, John M.
Salladay
1969 - James F. Dietz, Smith E.
Howland, Robert D. Litt, Geoffrey Allan
Prentice, M. Anandha Rao
1970 - Bradford F. Dunn, David R.
Grove, Charles A. Klingensmith,
Richard B. Strait, Rosa Uy
1971 - Juliet Davison Balmer, Karen
Lafferty Hendricks, William E.
Pritchard, Armen Tergevorkian,
Stephen Zakanycz
1972 - John A. Thomas
1973 - John C. Bost, Thomas E.
Claugus, David A. Dargan
1974 - Steven M. Brown, John E. Myers
George L. Ott, Michael A. Patterson,
1975 - John T. Erikson, Stephen L.
Grant
1985 - Douglas J. Ball, Roger G. Facer,
Rongher Jean, Timothy A. Johnson,
David J. Moonay
1986 - Robert M. Canright, Michael L.
Gilles, Rajeev L. Gorowara, Tharuvai S
Ramesh, Dave Vance, Brian A. Yanok
1976 - James M. Delabar
1987 - Jeffrey D. Adams, Karen S.
Johnson, D. Brian Noe
1977 - Robert J. Arnold, Robert L.
Collins, Douglas J. Hallenburg
1988 - Amy Schmidt Doty, Craig L.
Shoemaker, Annette Brough Ventura
1978 - Douglas T. Brown, Daniel M.
Coombs, Rad V. Scott III, Elizabeth
Ann Stuber, Neil P. Stuber, Brian K.
Weider, Thomas E. Winkler
1989 - Stuart F. Doty, Amy Reynolds
Pressly
1979 - Kevin R. Cole, Darice Ann
Davis, Karen T. Murphy, Randy W.
Schumaker, David J. Wasela, Tad K.
Williams
1980 - Frederick T. Clark, Matthew J.
Galosi, Mark A. George, Gary R. Prok,
Timothy L. Strickler, David G. Vutetakis
1981 - Nancy Coultrip Dawes, Ronald
A. Gibson, William E. Naseman, James
A. Telljohann
1982 - Dan Lambert, Andrew M. Weber
1983 - Michael Brian Begland, Tracy
Flora Begland, Thomas D. Burns,
Samuel D. Fink, Carolyn Marie Lin,
Keith R. Nowak
1990 - Craig M. Kehres, James V.
Lombardi, Timothy F. Matheis
1991 - Rick Wright
1993 - Scott D. Blatter, Samir Kumar,
Frank E. Seipel
1994 - John Dee Clay, Christopher W.
Voight
1996 - Beth Gibson, Jack R. Reese II,
Liping Zhang
1997 - Nanette Lynn Nardi Triplett,
Michael D. Triplett II
1998 - Aravind Rajappa Asthagiri
1999 - James William Holder
2000 - Regis Paul Geisler III
1984 - Wendell E. Harkins, Gregory
M. Masica, George W. Miller, Roger W.
Nelson, Patrick A. Renner
2001 - Thomas J. Jaynes, Eric S. Jensen
2002 - Jun Luo, Nihar Arvind Patel
2004 - Angela N.D. Carlson, Jeffrey L.
Ellis, Lori Ann Engelhardt, Erica Nicole
Jones, Marisa A. LaPalomento,
2005 - Michael G. Klidas
2008 - Jeffrey Ross Skinn
Friends of Department - Lori Almquist
Adams, Cheryl Homer Ball, Margaret
Brown Bartrug, Betty Bartels Bates,
Patricia A. Bates, Ruth M. Bates, Karen
S. Beeler, Lavada M. Bigley, Robert
S. Brodkey, Rita Eiben Broestl, Janet
Grandey Brown, Karen Barber Brown,
William Jacob Buschman Jr., Jeffrey
J. Chalmers, Sharon Redman Clark,
Kristy Sue Clay, Alissa Comella, Mary
Ellen Schoch Coombs, Marilyn Cooper,
Stuart L. Cooper, Mark E. Dawes,
Patricia C. Dietz, Alan Craig Duvall,
Liang-Shih Fan, Martin R. Feinberg,
Lynn D. Flanagan, Marilyn Elizabeth
George, Christine Carrino Gorowara,
Kathryn Wilson Grant, Doris Whitman
Harris, Beverly Doty Hauschildt,
David E. Hazlebeck, W.S. Winston Ho,
Judy Hoffman, Jeanne Baker Howard,
Christine Hudale Howland, Kenneth E.
Inkrott, Brian Matthew Jasper, Jaclyn
Nowakowski Jensen, Nancy Ferris Kail,
Kurt Koelling, Isamu Kusaka, L. James
Lee, Ernestine R. Lowrie, Erdal Ozkan,
Umit Ozkan, Andre Francis Palmer,
Michael E. Paulaitis, Merlyn Enarson
Prentice, Michelle Stover Prok, Nona
Toops Raines, James Flinn Rathman,
Gail L Reardon, Ralph Arthur Rockow,
Deidre Huddle Schumaker, Nancy Lynn
Shaffstall, Elizabeth Hurlbut Shoemaker,
Muriel Edwards Stauffer, Donna
Schrock Steele, Louise Mericle Stelzer,
Thomas Leonard Sweeney, Sandra Jean
Telljohann, David L. Tomasko, Betty
French Unkel, Shu-Huan Weng, Marlene
Hoy Wilcox, Susan Herbert Williams,
Arlene Romanowski Winfield, Adam Eric
Winter, Jessica Odelia Winter, Kathleen
Ziemianski Wolf, Jo Ann Woodworth,
Barbara Ellen Wyslouzil, Barbara Janecke
Zakanycz, Jacques L. Zakin, Elinor
Golden Zind
*Donations listed were received during
the 2009 calendar year.
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Faculty
Bhavik Bakshi
Professor, Ph.D., M.I.T. 1992. Process
Systems Engineering, Sustainability Science
and Engineering, Applied Statistics.
Books and Book Chapters
Ukidwe, N. U., J. L. Hau, and B. R. Bakshi,
“Thermodynamic Input-Output Analysis
of Economic and Ecological Systems”, chapter in Handbook
of Input-Output Economics in Industrial Ecology, ed. S. Suh,
Springer, 2009
Seabra, M., B. R. Bakshi, and Saraiva, P. M., “Denoising and
Signal to Noise (SNR) enhancement: Wavelet Transform and
Fourier Transform”, in Comprehensive Chemometrics, eds. S.
Brown, B.Walczak, and R. Tauler, Elsevier, 2009
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Chen, H., B. Li, B. R. Bakshi, P. K. Goel, “Nonlinear
Modeling: Linear Approaches for Nonlinear Modeling”, in
Comprehensive Chemometrics, eds. S. Brown, B.Walczak, and
R. Tauler, Elsevier, 2009
Li, B., P. K. Goel, and B. R. Bakshi, “Nonlinear Regression:
Other Methods”, in Comprehensive Chemometrics, eds. S.
Brown, B.Walczak, and R. Tauler, Elsevier, 2009
Baral, A., and B. R. Bakshi, “Comprehensive Study of
Cellulosic Ethanol Using Hybrid Eco-LCA”, in Biofuel
and Bioenergy from Biowastes and Residues, ed. Khanal,
S., American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Reston,
Virginia, 2009
Refereed Papers
Khanna, V., and B. R. Bakshi, “Carbon Nanofiber Polymer
Composites: Evaluation of Life Cycle Energy Use”,
Environmental Science and Technology, 43, 6, 2078-2084, 2009
Urban, R. A., and B. R. Bakshi, “1,3 Propane diol from
Biomass versus Fossils - A Life Cycle Evaluation of
Emissions and Resource Use”, Industrial and Engineering
Chemistry Research, 48, 17, 8068-8082, 2009
Chen, H., B. R. Bakshi and P. K. Goel, “Estimation of
Measurement Error Integrated with Empirical Process
Modeling - A Bayesian Approach”, AIChE Journal, 55, 11,
2883-2895, 2009
Baral, A., and B. R. Bakshi, “Thermodynamic Metrics for
Aggregation of Natural Resources in Life Cycle Analysis:
Insight via Application to Some Transportation Fuels”,
Environmental Science and Technology, published on-line,
December 18, 2009
Current Projects and Grants
$70,881 Bakshi, Bhavik R. 2009-2010
CANPBD: Evaluating the environmental impacts of nanomanufacturing via thermodynamic and life cycle analysis,
subcontract from Nano Science and Engineering Center grant
from National Science Foundation
$1,567,500 Bakshi, Bhavik R. 2005-2010
BE-MUSES: A Multiscale Statistical Framework for Assessing
the Biocomplexity of Materials Use - The Case of Transportation Fuels, (co-PIs Profs. P. K. Goel, Statistics; T. Haab, Ag.
Env. Dev. Economics, Michele Morone, Ohio University),
National Science Foundation
$175,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. 2005-2010
Matching funds from OSU Transportation Research Endowment Program (TREP)
$12,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. 2006-2010
Supplementary funds from NSF Research Experience for
Undergraduate Program.
$375,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. 2006-2010
Evaluating the Impacts of Nanomanufacturing via Thermodynamic and Life Cycle Analysis, (co-PI: Prof. L. James Lee),
Environmental Protection Agency
$200,000 Fiksel, Joseph, Resilient Enterprise Consortium,
Center for Resilience (co-PI: Bhavik R. Bakshi)
$300,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. (co-PI William J. Mitsch)
2009-2011 Toward Integration of Industrial Ecology and
Ecological Engineering, National Science Foundation
$45,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. (co-PIs J. Doyle (Caltech), J.
Fiksel, J. Guldmann, F., Hitzhusen, A. Murray, D. Woods )
2008-2010, Enabling Energy System Transitions via Integrated
Modeling of Resilience and Sustainability, OSU Institute for
Energy and the Environment
$100,000 Bakshi, Bhavik R. 2008-2010
Comparative Study of Thermodynamics Based Life
Cycle Assessment of Nano-Materials with Conventional
Technologies, Environmental Protection Agency
Robert S. Brodkey
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin, 1952. Image Processing
and Analysis and Fluid Mechanics. The
Validation of Numerical Simulation
Methods for Complex Process Flows.
Jeffrey Chalmers
Professor, Ph.D., Cornell U., 1988.
Bioengineering, Biochemical Engineering,
Biomedical Engineering, mixing.
Books and Book Chapters
Xiong, Y. Shao, M., Zborowski, M.,
Chalmers, J.J. Magnetic cell separation to
enrich for rare cells, in Methods in Bioengineering (MIB), Vol.
Editor K. Rege, Series editors: Yarmush, M and Langer, R.S.
Artech House, 2009.
Refereed Papers
Vieira, G., Heninghan, T., Chen, A., Hauser, A.J., Yang, Y.,
Chalmers, J.J., Sooryakumar, R. “Magnetic wire traps and
programmable manipulation of biological cells.” Physical
Review Letters, 103:128101, 2009.
Wu, Y., Chalmers, J.J., Wyslouzil, B. “The use of
Electrohydrodynamic Spraying to Disperse Hydrophobic
Compounds in Aqueous Media.” Aerosol Science. 43(9):902910. 2009.
Balasubramanian, P., Yang, L., Lang, J.C., Jatana, K.R.,
Schuller, D., Agrawal, A., Zborowski, M., Chalmers, J.J.
“Confocal images of circulating tumor cells obtained using
a methodology and technology that removes normal cells.”
Molecular Pharmaceutics 6(5):1402-1408, 2009. PMID:
19445481
engineering; NSF Div Undergraduate Education (Awarded to
San Jose State University)
Godoy-Silva, R., Chalmers, J.J., Casnocha, SA, Bass, L.A.,
Ma, N. “Physiological Responses of CHO Cells to Repetitive
Hydrodynamic Stress.” Biotechnol. Bioeng. 103(6):1103-1117.
2009. PMID: 19405151
$50,000 Jeffrey Chalmers 2008-2009
Characterization of Millipore disposable bioreactor;
Millipore Corporation
Shenkman, RM, Chalmers, J.J., Hering, BJ, Kirchhof, N.,
Papas, K. “Quadrupole Magnetic Sorting (QMS) of Porcine
Islets of Langerhans.” Tissue Engineering Part C Methods.
15(2):147-56. 2009. PMID: 19505179
$3,500,000 Jeffrey Chalmers 2006-2010
Advanced biomedical devices for disease diagnosis and
therapy; Ohio Department of Development
Shenkman, RM, Godoy-Silva, G., Papas, K., Chalmers, J.J.
“Effect of Energy Dissipation rate on Islets of Langerhans:
Implications for Isolation and Transplantation.” Biotechnol
and Bioeng. 103:413-423. 2009. PMID: 19191351
Yang, L., Lang, J.C., Balasubramanian, P., Jantan, K.R.,
Schuller, D., Agrawal, A., Zborowski, M., Chalmers, J.J.
“Optimization of an Enrichment process for Circulating
tumor cells from the blood of Head and Neck Cancer patients
through depletion of normal cells.” Biotechnol. Bioeng. 102
(2):521-534. 2009. PMID: 18726961
Godoy-Silva, R., Mollet, M., Chalmers, J.J., “Evaluation of
the Effect of Chronic Hydrodynamic Stresses on Cultures of
Suspended CHO-6E6 Cells.” Biotechnology and
Bioengineering. 102(4):1119-1130. 2009. PMID: 18958864
Current Projects and Grants
$153,535 Jeffrey Chalmers 2008-2010
(P.I. of subcontract) Cell Selection by magnetic flow; NIH,
subcontract from CCF
$22,540 Jeffrey Chalmers 2009-2011
(P.I. of subcontract) CCLI: Educational materials to enhance
chemical engineering curricula with applications in biological
$65,593 Jeffrey Chalmers 2006-2010
(P.I. of subcontract) QMS technology to deplete t cell alloreactivity; NIH, (Awarded to U. of Indiana)
$2,350,349 Jeffrey Chalmers (Investigator) 2004-2009
OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant; NCI
$xx,xxx,xxx Jeffrey Chalmers (Co- Investigator) 2008-2012
Center for affordable nanoengineering of polymer biomedical devices (CANPBD); NSF Div Engineering Education &
Centers
$676,675 Jeffrey Chalmers (Senior Personnel) 2009-2010
(ARRA) CellTrap: A novel solid phase platform for analysis of
stem/progenitor cells; National Institute of Aging
$313,433 Jeffrey Chalmers (Co P.I.) 2009-2012
Fluorescent-magnetic nanomaniputators for cytoskeletal
mechanical investigations; National Science Foundation
$49,269 Jeffrey Chalmers 2009-2010
(P.I. of subcontract) ARRA Magnetophoretic Cell sorting and
Analysis; NIH
Stuart Cooper
University Scholar Professor and
Department Chair, Ph.D., Princeton
University, 1967. Polymer Science and
Engineering, Properties of Polyurethanes
and Ionomers, Blood-Materials
Interactions, Tissue Engineering.
Refereed Papers
Veleva, A. N., D. E. Heath, C. Patterson, J.J. Lannutti and
S.L. Cooper, “Interactions Between Endothelial Cells and
Electrospun Methacrylic Terpolymer Fibers for Engineered
Vascular Replacements”, J. Biomed. Mater. Res., 91A, 11311139, 2009
Current Projects and Grants
$46,375 Stuart L. Cooper 2009-2014
Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices, Sponsorship of 1 Ph.D. student, National Science
Foundation (P.I. James Lee)
$1,086,000 S.L. Cooper, N. Moldivan (Co P.1.s) 2009-2011
“Cell Trap: A Novel Solid Phase Platform for Analysis of Stem/
Progenitor Cells”, NIH
Liang-Shih Fan
Distinguished University Professor, Ph.D.,
West Virginia University 1978.Clean
Coal Technologies, Multi-Phase Flow and
Reaction Engineering.
Awards & Honors
Elected as a Foreign Member of Chinese
Academy of Engineering (2009).
Best Paper Award in Fluidization and Fluid-Particle System
presented at Particle Technology Forum AICHE (2009).
Charles Ellison MacQuigg Award for Outstanding Teaching,
College of Engineering (2009).
Western Distinguished Engineering Lectureship, The University of Western Ontario (2009).
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research Festschrift
Issue (January issue, 2009) in Honor of L.-S. Fan (2009).
2009 U.S. Korea Conference Plenary Session on “Fossil Energy and Beyond”, Raleigh, North Carolina (2009).
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2009 AIChE Plenary Session on “Energy Policy and Technology”, AICHE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee (2009).
Books and Book Chapters
Fei Wang, Q. Marashdeh, R. Williams and L.S. Fan,
“Electrical Capacitance, Electrical Resistance, and Positron
Emission Tomography Techniques and Their Applications
in Multi-Phase Flow Systems” Advances in Chemical
Refereed Papers
Holland, D. J., Marashdeh, Q., Muller, C. R., Wang, F., Dennis,
J. S., Fan, L.S., Gladden, L. F., “Comparison of ECVT and MR
Measurements of Voidage in a Gas-Fluidized Bed,” Industrial
& Engineering Chemistry Research. 48(1), 172-181, 2009.
Li, F., Kim, H. R., Sridhar, D,, Wang, F., Zeng, L., and Fan, L.S., “Syngas Chemical Looping Gasification Process: Oxygen
Carrier Particle Selection and Performance,” Energy and Fuel,
23(8): 4182-4189, 2009.
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Yu, Z., Fan, L.S., “An interaction potential based lattice
Boltzmann method with adaptive mesh refinement (AMR)
for two-phase flow simulation,” Journal of Computational
Physics, 228(17), 6456-6478, 2009.
Kim, H. R., Lee, D. H., Park, A., and Fan, L.S., “Synthesis of
Iron-Based Chemical Looping Sorbents Integrated with pH
Swing Carbon Mineral Sequestration” Journal of Nanoscience
and Nanotechnology, 9(12), 7422-7427, 2009.
Fan, L.S., “Book Review: Moonson Kwauk and Hongzhong
Li, Editors, Handbook of Fluidization, Institute of Process
Engineering/Chemical Industry Press, CAS, China/Beijing
(2007) ISBN 978-7-122-00194-8 1402 pp.”, Particuology, 2009.
Current Projects and Grants
$3,000,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2009-2011
Coal Direct Chemical Looping Retrofit for Pulverized
Coal-Fired Plants with In-situ CO2 Capture, Department
Of Energy.
$300,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2009-2011
Process/Equipment co-simulation on syngas chemical
looping process, Department Of Energy.
$408,801 Fan, Liang-Shih, Rizzoni, Giorgio 2008-2010
Carbon negative chemical looping process for hydrogen
or liquid fuel synthesis using refuse derived fuel, biomass
and/or Ohio coal, Ohio Department of Development.
$159,996 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2010
Hydrogen production from syngas using novel metal
oxide composite particles, Ohio Coal Development Office.
$159,996 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2010
Chemical looping combustion, Ohio Coal Development
Office.
$81,222 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2009
Phase 1 SCL process - fabricated equipment, Ohio Coal
Development Office.
$1,564,206 Fan, Liang-Shih 2007-2010
High purity hydrogen production with in-situ carbon
-dioxide and sulfur capture in a single stage reactor,
Department of Energy.
$5,000,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2009-2013
Pilot Demonstration of the Chemical Looping Systems
ARPA-E/Department of Energy
Martin Feinberg
Morrow Professor, Ph.D., Princeton
University, 1968, Complex Chemical
Systems
Refereed Papers
Shinar, G.; Alon, U., and Feinberg, M.
Sensitivity and robustness in chemical
reaction networks, S. I. A. M. Journal on Applied Mathematics,
69, 977-998 (2009)
$238,339 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2011
Development and implementation of 3-D, high speed
capacitance tomography for imaging large-scale, cold-flow
circulating fluidized bed, Department of Energy.
Current Projects and Grants
$499,934 Feinberg, Martin 2004-2010
Quantitative Systems Biology: Understanding Bistability
in Complex Enzyme -Driven Reaction Networks, National
Science Foundation.
$100,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2009
Development of 3-D electrical capacitance volume tomography
(3-D ECVT), Department of Energy.
$381,826 Feinberg, Martin 2008-2013
Collaborative Research: Multistability in Biological Networks,
National Institutes of Health - General Medical Sciences
$211,870 Fan, Liang-Shih, Zakin, Jacques. 2007-2009
Enhanced coal to liquid technology using calcium looping
process, Ohio Coal Development Office.
W.S. Winston Ho
$160,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2007-2009
Integrated fuel cell with chemical looping, Ohio Coal
Development Office.
$150,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2007-2009
Carbon negative looping process impact on jet fuel
Characteristics, U.S. Air Force.
Professor, Ph.D., University of Illinois,
Urbana, 1971. Molecularly Based
Membrane Separations, Fuel-Cell Fuel
Processing and Membranes, Transport
Phenomena in Membranes, Separations
with Chemical Reaction.
Awards & Honors
Elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (2009).
American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ Excellence and
Appreciation Award (2009), Meeting Program Chair for the
AIChE 2009 Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, Nov. 8 -13,
2009.
Invited Keynote Lecture, “H2S- and CO2-Selective
Membranes for Fuel Processing for Fuel Cells,” 238th ACS
National Meeting, Washington, DC, August 16-19, 2009.
Invited Keynote Lecture, “New Membranes for Hydrogen
Purification and Proton Transport for Fuel Cells”, 5th ChinaUS Conference of Chemical Engineering, Beijing, China,
October 12-16, 2009.
First Place Graduate Research Poster Paper Award, the
Annual Meeting of North American Membrane Society,
Charleston, SC, June 21-24, 2009.
Books and Book Chapters
Ramage, M. P., Tilman, G. D., Gray, D., Hall, R. D., Hiler,
E. A., Ho, W. S. W., Karlen, D. L., Katzer, J. R., Ladisch, M.
R., Miranowski, J. A., Oppenheimer, M., Probstein, R. F.,
Schobert, H. H., Somerville, C. R., Stephanopoulos, G., and
Sweeney, J. L., “Liquid Transportation Fuels from Coal and
Biomass.” The National Academies Press, Washington, 2009.
Refereed Papers
Bai, He, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “New Carbon DioxideSelective Membranes Based on Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole
(SPBI) Copolymer Matrix for Fuel Cell Applications,”
Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 48 (5), 23442354, 2009.
Zhang, Lanlin, Park, In-Soo, Shqau, Krenar, Ho, W.S. Winston, and Verweij, Henk, “Supported Inorganic Membranes:
Promises and Challenges,” Journal of Minerals, Metals and
Materials Society, 61 (4), 61-71, 2009.
Bai, He, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “New Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole (SPBI) Copolymer-based Proton-Exchange Membranes for Fuel Cells,” Journal of Taiwan Institute of Chemical
Engineers, 40 (3), 260-267, 2009.
Vilt, Michael E., and Ho, W.S. Winston, “Supported Liquid
Membranes with Strip Dispersion for the Recovery of Cephalexin,” Journal of Membrane Science, 342 (1-2), 80-87, 2009.
Bai, He, Ramasubramanian, Kartik, and Ho, W.S. Winston,
“H2S- and CO2-Selective Membranes for Fuel Processing for
Fuel Cells,” Preprints of Symposia - American Chemical Society, Division of Fuel Chemistry, 54 (2), 820-822, 2009.
Yen, Chi, He, Hongyen, Lee, L. James, and Ho, W.S. Winston,
“Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Polycaprolactone Membranes via Thermally- and Nonsolvent-Induced
Phase Separations for Biomedical Device Application,” Journal of Membrane Science, 343 (1-2), 180-188, 2009.
Ho, W.S. Winston, “Facilitated Transport Membranes for
Environmental, Antibiotic and Energy Applications,” ChineseAmerican Chemical Society Communications, 3 (2), 13-18,
2009.
Xing, Rong, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “Synthesis and Characterization of Crosslinked Polyvinylalcohol/Polyethyleneglycol
Blend Membranes for CO2/CH4 Separation,” Journal of
Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers, 40 (6), 654-662, 2009.
Current Projects and Grants
$150,000 Ho, W.S. Winston 2006-2010
National Science Foundation, Carbon Dioxide-Selective
Membranes, OSURF Project No. 60008308.
$12,000 Ho, W.S. Winston 2008-2010
National Science Foundation, REU Supplement for Current
Grant NSF CBET-0625758, Carbon Dioxide-Selective
Membranes, OSURF Project No. 60017278.
$639,696 Ho, W.S. Winston 2008-2011
Office of Naval Research, Advanced Membranes for
Reformate Hydrogen Sulfide Clean-up, OSURF Project No.
60014815.
$639,696 Ho, W.S. Winston 2008-2011
Office of Naval Research, CO Conversion and Clean-up via
CO2-Selective Membrane with Water-Gas-Shift Reaction,
OSURF Project No. 60014814.
$205,558 Ho, W.S. Winston 2009-2011
National Science Foundation, Liquid Membranes in
Nanopores with Strip Dispersion for Antibiotic Recovery,
OSURF Project No. 60020609.
$41,915 Ho, W.S. Winston 2009-2010
Office of Naval Research /DJW Technology, LLC, Advanced
Hydrogen Reformate Stream Purifier for Fuel Cell
Applications, OSURF Project No. 60022589.
$48,874 Ho, W.S. Winston 2007-2010
Ohio State University Residual Funds, Polymer Membranes,
OSURF Project No. 60015086.
$233,268 Ho, W.S. Winston 2004-2010
National Science Foundation, Center for Affordable
Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices, NSEC
Project sponsoring 1 Ph.D. Student, with L. James Lee (PI),
OSURF Project No. 60009015.
Kurt Koelling
Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University
1993. Polymer Rheology and Processing,
Polymer Nanocomposites, Multi-phase
flows, Micro/Nanofluidics.
Refereed Papers
S. Shukla and K. W. Koelling, “Classical
Nucleation Theory Applied to Homogeneous Bubble
Nucleation in the Continuous Microcellular Foaming of the
Polystyrene−CO2 System”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2009, 48
(16), pp 7603–7615
M. J. Wingert, S. Shukla, K. W. Koelling, D. L. Tomasko and
L. J. Lee, “Shear Viscosity of CO2-Plasticized Polystyrene
Under High Static Pressures”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2009, 48
(11), pp 5460–5471
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David L. Tomasko, Adam Burley, Lu Feng, Shu-Kai Yeha,
Koki Miyazono, Sharath Nirmal-Kumar, Isamu Kusaka
and Kurt Koelling, “Development of CO2 for Polymer
Foam Applications”, Journal of Supercritical Fluids; The 20th
anniversary of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids–A special
issue on future directions in supercritical fluid science and
technology, 2009, Volume 47, Issue 3 , pp. 493-499
$131,179 Koelling, Kurt, Lee, L.J., Yang, S.T. 2006-2009
STTR Phase II: Microfluidic cd biochips for enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assays, National Science Foundation
M. Mahboob, C. Kagarise, K.W. Koelling, S.E. Bechtel,
“Quantitative 3D measurement of the nanostructural features
that dictate mesoscale performance properties of nanocomposites”, Polymer Composites, published online (2009)
Isamu Kusaka
Current Projects and Grants
$400,000 Tomasko, David, Koelling, Kurt, Kusaka, I.,
Lee, L.J. 2006-2009; Scalable Nanomanufacturing of High
Performance Nanocomposite Foams, National Science
Foundation.
Refereed Papers
Kusaka, Isamu, “Accelerating simulation
of metastable decay,” Journal of Chemical
Physics, 131, 034112, 2009.
Y. Yuan, H. He, and L.J. Lee, “Protein A-based
Immobilization of Antibody onto A Polymeric Microfluidic
Device for Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay”,
Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 102(3), 891-901 (2009).
Talreja, Manish, Kusaka, Isamu, Tomasko, David L., “Density
functional approach for modeling CO2 pessurized polymer
thin films in equilibrium”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 130,
084902, 2009.
X. Yang, X. Zhao, M.A. Phelps, L. Piao, Q. Liu, D.M.
Rozewski, L.J. Lee, G. Marcucci, M.R. Grever, J.C. Byrd, J.T.
Dalton and R.J. Lee, “A Novel Liposomal Formulation of
Flavopiridol”, International Journal of Pharmaceutics, 365,
170-174 (2009).
$365,000 Koelling, Kurt, Lee, L.J., 2005-2009
Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)
for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering (CAPCE),
National Science Foundation
$50,000 Koelling, Kurt, Vodovotz, Yael 2007-2009
Processing of Biopolymer Films, Institute for Materials
Research
$39,800 Koelling, Kurt, Vodovotz, Yael 2008-2010
Biobased Polymer Films, I/UCRC Center for Advanced
Packaging and Processing Studies
$25,000 Koelling, Kurt 2008-2009
Processing and Rheology of Thermoplastics, I/UCRC Center
for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering
$50,000 Koelling, Kurt 2007-2010
Extensional flow induced orientation and rheology of
polymer/carbon nanotube composites, Toray Industries
$100,000 Koelling, Kurt, Tomasko, David 2007-2009
Nanocomposite Foams, Nanomaterial Innovation Ltd.
$118,348 Koelling, Kurt 2008-2010
Properties of Carbon Nanotube Fibers and Bucky Papers,
Battelle Memorial Institute
Kusaka, Isamu, Associate Professor,
Ph.D., Caltech 1998. Statistical mechanics,
Thermodynamics, Nucleation
Books and Book Chapters
B. Yu, R.J. Lee and L.J. Lee, “Microfluidic Methods for
Production of Liposomes”, Methods in Enzymology/ Vol. 465 –
Liposomes, Part G, Ch. 7, Elsevier Inc. 2009.
Refereed Papers
X. Yang, C.G. Koh, S. Liu, X. Pan, R. Santhanam, B. Yu, Y.
Peng, J. Pang, S. Golan, Y. Talmon, Y. Jin, N. Muthusamy,
J.C. Byrd, K.K. Chan, L.J. Lee, G. Marcucci and R.J. Lee,
“Transferrin Receptor-Targeted Lipid Nanoparticles for
Delivery of an Antisense Oligodeoxyribonucleotide against
Bcl-2”, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 6, 221-230 (2009).
Tomasko, David L., Burley, Adam, Feng, Lu, Yeh, Shu-Kai,
Miyazono, Koki, Nirmal-Kumar, Sharath, Kusaka, Isamu,
Koelling, Kurt W., “Development of CO2 for Polymer Foam
Applications,” Journal of Supercritical Fluids, 47, 493-499,
2009.
G. Zhai, J. Wu, G. Xiang, W. Mao, B. Yu, H. Li, L. Piao, L.J.
Lee and R.J. Lee, “A Folate Receptor-Targeted Liposomal
Formulation for Docetaxel Delivery”, Journal of Nanoscience
and nanotechnology, 9, 2155-2161 (2009).
Current Projects and Grants
$400,000 Tomasko, David, Koelling, Kurt, Kusaka, I.,
Lee, L.J. 2006-2009; Scalable Nanomanufacturing of High
Performance Nanocomposite Foams, National Science
Foundation.
H. He, Y. Yuan, W. Wang, N-R Chiou and L.J. Lee, “Design
and Testing of a Microfluidic Biochip for Cytokine EnzymeLinked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)”, Biomicrofluidics,
3, 022401 (2009). April 15, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of
Biological Physics Research
L.James Lee
B. Yu, X. Zhao, L.J. Lee and R.J. Lee, “Targeted Delivery
Systems for Oligonucleotide Therapeutics”, American
Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Journal, 11(1), 195203 (2009).
Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota,
1979. Polymer and Composite
Engineering, Nanobiotechnology,
BioMEMS, Microfluidics, BioMEMS/
NEMS.
X. Hu, S. Wang and L.J. Lee, “Single-Molecule DNA
Dynamics in Tapering Contraction-Expansion Microchannels
under Electrophoresis", Journal of Physics Review E, 79,
041911 (2009).
Y. Xie, Y. Yang, X. Kang, L.J. Lee, and D.A. Kniss, “Assembly
of Embryonic Stem Cell/Scaffold Three-Dimensional
Constructs Using Carbon Dioxide Assisted Polymer Fusion”,
Biotechnology Progress, 25(2), 535-542 (2009).
C-H Lin, J. Guan, S-W Chau and L.J. Lee, “Experimental and
Numerical Analysis of DNA Nanowire Array Formation by
Surface Patterned Molecular Combing”, Journal of Physics D:
Applied Physics, 42, 02503 (2009).
X. Zhang, Y. Xie, C-G Koh and L.J. Lee, “A Novel 3-D
Model for Cell Culture and Tissue Engineering”, Biomedical
Microdevices, 11, 795-799 (2009).
X. Zhang, C.G. Koh, B. Yu, S. Liu, L. Piao, G. Marcucci,
R.J. Lee and L.J. Lee, “Transferrin Receptor Targeted
Lipopolyplexes for Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotide
G3139 in a Murine K562 Xenograft Model”, Pharmaceutical
Research, 26(6), 1516-1524 (2009).
J. Yang, C. Liu, Y. Yang, B. Zhu, L.J. Lee, H. Chen and Y.C.
Jean „Analysis of Polystyrene Surface Properties Using
Nanoparticle Embedding Technique”, Journal of Polymer
Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, 47, 1535-1542 (2009).
S. Wang, X. Zhang, W. Wang, and L.J. Lee, “Semi-continuous
Flow Electroporation Chip for High Throughput Transfection
on Mammalian Cells”, Analytical Chemistry, 81, 4414-4421
(2009).
C.G. Koh, X. Kang, Z. Fei, J. Guan, Y. Xie, B. Yu and L.J. Lee,
“Assembly of PEI/DNA Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery by
Microfluidic Hydrodynamic Focusing”, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 6(5), 1333-1342 (2009).
Y. Wu, B. Yu, A. Jackson, W. Zha, L.J. Lee, B.E. Wyslouzil,
“Electrohydrodynamic Spraying: A Novel One-Step Technique to Prepare Oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) Encapsulated
Lipoplex Nanoparticles”, Molecular Pharmaceutics, 6(5), 13711379 (2009).
C. Yen, H. He, W. Ho, and L.J. Lee, “ Synthesis and Characterization of Nanoporous Polycaprolactone Membranes via
Thermally- and Nonsolvent-Induced Phase Separations for
Biomedical Device Applications”, J. Membrane Science, 343,
180-188 (2009).
X. Wen, H. He and L.J. Lee, “Antibody Immobilization with
Biotin-Derivatized Poly(L-lysine)-g-Poly(ethylene glycol) on
Polymeric Microfluidic Chips for Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay”, Journal of Immunology Methods, published
online (2009).
G. Zhou, S. Movva and L.J. Lee, “Preparation and Properties
of Nanoparticle and Long Fiber Reinforced Unsaturated Polyester Composites”, Polymer Composites, 30(7), 861-865 (2009).
S. Movva, G. Zhou, D. Guerra, and L.J. Lee, “Effect of Carbon
Nanofibers on Mold Filling in a Vacuum Assisted Resin
Transfer Molding System”, J. Composite Materials, 43 (6), 611620 (2009).
Y.C. Jean, H.M. Chen, L.J. Lee, J. Yang, X. Gu, W.S. Hung,
K.R. Lee, J.Y. Lai, Y.M. Sun and C.C. Hu, “Positronium Chemistry in Polymeric Membrane Systems”, Materials Science
Forum, 607, 1-8 (2009).
H.M. Chen, L.J. Lee, J. Yang, X. Gu and Y.C. Jean, “Free Volumes in Polymer Nanocomposites”, Materials Science Forum,
607, 177-179 (2009).
J. Yang, S.K. Yeh, N.R. Chiou, Z. Guo, T. Daniel and L.J. Lee,
“Synthesis and Foaming of Water Expandable Polystyrene-Activated Carbon Composites”, Polymer, 50, 3169-3173 (2009).
Patents
L.J. Lee, D.L. Tomasko, Y. Yang and C. Zeng, “Carbon
Dioxide Assisted Processing and Bonding of Polymer and
Polymer Composites”, US Patent 7,501,039, March 10 (2009).
R.R. Loh (Owens Corning), M.E. Polasky (OC), J.P. Rynd
(OC), L.J. Lee, X. Han and K.W. Koelling, “Polymer Foams
Containing Multi-functional Layered Nano-graphite”, U.S.
Provisional Patent Application No. 11/026,011 filed on
December 31, 2004, US Patent 7,605,188, October 20 (2009).
Current Projects and Grants
$12,500,000 Lee, L. James (PI) 2009-2014
Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Affordable
Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices- Phase II,
National Science Foundation
$22,489,845 Lee, L. James (PI) 2005-2009
Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and
Devices, Ohio Department of Development Third Frontier
Program
$360,000 Lee, L. James (co-PI) 2006-2009
Evaluating the Impacts of Nanomanufacturing via
Thermodynamic and Life Cycle Analysis, EPA
$8,000,000 Lee, L. James (PI) 2007-2010
Commercialization of High-Performance Nano-Tailored
Structural Composites for Energy and Survivability
Applications, Ohio Department of Development Third
Frontier Program
$387,516 Lee, L. James (PI) 2007-2009
Novel Micro/Nanofluidic Electroporation Devices for DNA
and Oligonucleotide Delivery, National Institute of Health
(NIBIB)
$387,516 Lee, L. James (co-PI) 2007-2009
Novel Microfluidic Synthesis of Nanoparticles for
Oligonucleotide Delivery, National Institute of Health (NCI)
$2,886,763 Lee, L. James (co-PI) 2008-2013
Targeted Lipopolyplexes for Oligonucleotide Delivery to
AML, National Institute of Health (NCI)
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Umit Ozkan
Professor, Ph.D., Iowa State University,
1984; Catalysis and catalytic materials
Song, H., Tan, B., Ozkan, U.S., “Novel Synthesis Techniques
for Preparation of Co/CeO2 as Ethanol Steam Reforming
Catalysts”, Catalysis Letters, 132, 422-429 (2009).
Books and Book Chapters
Ozkan, U.S., Design of Heterogeneous
Catalysts: New Approaches based on
Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling,
Song, H. Ozkan, U.S., “Changing the Oxygen Mobility in Co/
Ceria Catalysts by Ca Incorporation: Implications for Ethanol
Steam Reforming” Journal of Physical Chemistry. Invited
paper. In press. doi: 10.1021/jp905608e.
Wiley-VCH, 2009.
Refereed Papers
Zhang, L. Wang, X., Tan, B., Ozkan, U.S., “Effect of
Preparation Method on Structural Characteristics and
Propane Steam Reforming Performance of Ni/Al2O3
Catalysts,” J. Mol. Catal. 297, 26-34 (2009).
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Song, H. and Ozkan, U.S., “Economic Analysis of Hydrogen
Production through a Bio-ethanol Steam Reforming Process:
Sensitivity Analyses and Cost Estimations”. International
Journal of Hydrogen Energy, in press. doi:10.1016/j.
ijhydene.2009.10.043
Song, H., Ozkan, U.S., “Ethanol Steam Reforming over
Co-based Catalysts: Role of Oxygen Mobility ” Journal of
Catalysis, 261 66-74 (2009).
Song, H. and Ozkan, U.S., “The Role of Impregnation
Medium on the Activity of Ceria-supported Co Catalysts for
Ethanol Steam Reforming,” J. Molecular Catalysis, in press.
doi:10.1016/j.molcata.2009.11.003.
Zhang, L., Millet, J-M.M., Ozkan, U.S., “Effect of Cu loading
on the catalytic performance of Fe-Al-Cu for water-gas shift
reaction” Applied Catalysis A, 357, 166-72 (2009)
Patents
Ozkan, U.S.; Holmgreen, Erik M.; Yung, Matthew M., “Multistage Catalyst Systems.” U.S. Patent 7,488,462, February 2009.
Woods, M. P., Mirkelamoglu, B., Ozkan, U.S., “Oxygen and
Nitrous Oxide as Oxidants: Implications for Ethane Oxidative
Dehydrogenation over Silica:Titania Supported Molybdenum”,
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 113, 10112-10119 (2009).
Current Projects and Grants
$320,000 Ozkan, U.S. 2004-2009
Catalytic Activity of Nitrogen-Containing Functional Groups
Supported On Carbon Structures for Cathodic Oxygen
Reduction Reaction for PEM Fuel Cell, National Science
Foundation
Biddinger, E.J., von Deak, D., Ozkan, U.S., “Nitrogencontaining carbon nanostructures as oxygen-reduction
catalysts,” Topics in Catalysis, 52 (11), 1566 (2009).
Zhang, L., Millet, J-M.M., Ozkan, U.S., “Deactivation
characteristics of Fe-Al-Cu water-gas shift catalysts in the
presence of H2S” Journal of Molecular Catalysis, 309, 63-70
(2009).
Zhao, Z., Lakshminarayanan, N., Kuhn, J.N., Senefeld-Naber,
A., Felix, L.G., Slimane, R., B., Choi, C.W., Ozkan, U.S.,
“Optimization of thermally impregnated Ni-olivine catalysts
for tar removal” Applied Catalysis, 363, 64-72 (2009)
$1,145,624 Ozkan, U.S. 2005-2010
Investigation of reaction networks and active sites in bioethanol steam reforming over Co-based catalysts, U.S.
Department of Energy
$480,000 Ozkan, U.S. 2007-2010
Investigation of the nature of active sites on heteroatom-containing carbon nano-structures for oxygen reduction reaction,
US Department of Energy-Basic Energy Sciences
$160,000 Ozkan, U.S. 2008-2010
Novel cathode electrocatalysts for reduced temperature coal
gas-fed SOFC systems, Ohio Coal Development Office
$160,000 Ozkan, U.S. 2008-2010
Sulfur and coke resistant novel anode catalysts in reduced
temperature coal gas-fed SOFC systems, Ohio Coal Development Office
$162,057 Ozkan, U.S. 2009-2011
Internal Steam Reforming of Natural Gas for SOFC, RollsRoyce/Ohio Department of Development
Andre Palmer
Associate Professor, Ph.D., The Johns
Hopkins University, 1998. Bioengineering
& Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers
Refereed Papers
A. F. Palmer, G. Sun and D. R. Harris,
“Tangential flow filtration of hemoglobin,”
25: 189-199 Biotechnology Progress (2009)
G. Chen and A. F. Palmer, “Hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier and convection enhanced oxygen transport in a hollow
fiber bioreactor,” 102: 1603-1612 Biotechnology and Bioengineering (2009)
S. I. Gundersen, G. Chen and A. F. Palmer, “Mathematical
model of NO and O2 transport in an arteriole facilitated by
hemoglobin-based O2 carriers,” 143: 1-17 Biophysical Chemistry (2009)
A. Bowling and A. F. Palmer, “The small mass assumption
applied to the multibody dynamics of motor proteins,” 42:
1218-23 Journal of Biomechanics (2009)
G. Chen and A. F. Palmer, “Perfluorocarbon facilitated O2
transport in a hepatic hollow fiber bioreactor,” 25: 1317-1321
Biotechnology Progress (2009)
J. Elmer, D. R. Harris, G. Sun and A. F. Palmer, “Purification
of hemoglobin by tangential flow filtration with diafiltration,”
25: 1402-1410 Biotechnology Progress (2009)
P. Cabrales, G. Sun, D. R. Harris, Y. Zhou, A. G. Tsai, M.
Intaglietta and A. F. Palmer, “Effects of the molecular mass
of tense-state polymerized bovine hemoglobin on blood pressure and vasoconstriction,” 107: 1548-1558 Journal of Applied
Physiology (2009)
A. Bowling, A. F. Palmer and L. Wilhelm, “Contact and
impact in the multibody dynamics of motor protein locomotion,” 25: 12974-12981 Langmuir (2009)
A. F. Palmer, G. Sun and D. R. Harris, “The quaternary structure of tetrameric hemoglobin regulates the oxygen affinity
of polymerized hemoglobin” 25: 1803-1809 Biotechnology
Progress (2009)
Current Projects and Grants
$1,875,000, 2006-2011, Mechanically stable blood substitutes
(PI), Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01HL078840-01A1
$143,000 Paulaitis, M.E., Schneck, J. P. 2007-2009
Profiling of Influenza-Specific Immune Responses in the
Elderly, National Institutes of Health
$1.6 M Moldovan, N. I., Aukerman, G.F., Chalmers, J.J.,
2009-2011 Cooper, S.L., Kaumaya, P.T.P., Lee, J.L., Malarkey,
W.B., Paulaitis, M.E., Philips, G. S., Rajagopalan, S., Winter,
J.O.CellTrap: A novel solid phase platform for analysis of
stem/progenitor cells, National Institutes of Health
$2.65M Paulaitis, M.E., Garcia-Moreno, B. E., Lenhoff, A. M.
2001-2009 Institute for Multiscale Modeling and Analysis of
Complex Interactions in Biology, Department of Energy
$24,000 Paulaitis, M.E., Vanderah D. J., Valincius, G.
2008-2009 Electrochemical Impedence Spectroscopy of Tethered Bilayer Membranes, National Institute of Standards and
Technology
James Rathman
$598,500, 2006-2009, Enhanced O2 delivery to C3A hepatocytes (PI), Agency: National Institutes of Health
Grant: 1R01DK070862-01A2
Michael Paulaitis
Professor, Ph.D., Illinois, 1976. Molecular
simulations and modeling of weak proteinprotein interactions; the role of hydration
in biological organization and selfassembly phenomena; multiscale modeling
of biological interactions; high-throughput
cellular microarrays for characterizing
protein-protein interactions in cell populations.
Refereed Papers
Chempath, S., Pratt, L. R. Paulaitis, M. E., “Quasi-chemical
theory with a soft cut-off,” J. Chem. Phys. 130:054113 (2009).
Current Projects and Grants
$365,000 Paulaitis, M.E., 2005-2010
The Thermodynamics of Protein Separations, National
Science Foundation
Professor, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma,
1987. Interfacial phenomena, molecular
self assembly, informatics.
Refereed Papers
Triplett, M.D., Rathman, J.F. J.
Nanoparticle Research, 2009, 11(3),
601-614.“Optimization of b-carotene loaded solid lipid
nanoparticles preparation using a high shear homogenization
technique.”
David Tomasko
Professor, Ph.D., Univ. of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign, 1992. Molecular
Thermodynamics, Supercritical Fluid
Processing, Polymer Processing
Awards & Honors
Inducted as Honorary Member in
Texnikoi, College of Engineering, The Ohio State University
Refereed Papers
Guo, Z., Yeh, S-K., Wingert, M.J., Ellis, J.L., Tomasko,
D.L., Lee, L.J., “Comparison of Nanoclay and Carbon
Nanofiber Particles on Rheology of Molten Polystyrene
Nanocomposites under Supercritical Carbon Dioxide”,
submitted to J. Appl. Pol. Sci., 2009.
Wingert, M.J., Shukla, S., Koelling, K.W., Tomasko, D.L.,
Lee, L.J., “Shear Viscosity of CO2-Plasticized Polystyrene
Under High Static Pressures”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2009,
48(11), 5460-5471.
Niehaus, A.J., Anderson, D.E., Samii, V.F., Weisbrode, S.E.,
Johnson, J.K., Noon, M.S., Tomasko, D.L., Lannutti, J.J.,
“Effects of orthopedic implants with a polycaprolactone
polymer coating containing bone morphogenetic protein-2
on osseointegration in bones of sheep” Am. J. Veterinary Res.,
2009, 70(11), 1416-25.
Talreja, M., Kusaka, I., Tomasko, D.L., “Density Functional
Approach for Modeling CO2 Pressurized Polymer Thin Films
in Equilibrium,” J. Chem. Phys. 2009, 130(24), 249901.
Tomasko, D.L., Burley, A., Yeh, S-K., Feng, L., Miyazono, K.,
Nirmal-Kumar, S., Kusaka, I., Koelling, K., “Development
of CO2 for Polymer Foam Applications,” J. Supercrit. Fluids,
2009, 47, 493-499.
Patents
Lee, L.J., Yang, Y., Tomasko, D.L., Zheng, C., Gas Assisted
Bonding of Polymers and Polymer Composites, 2009, US
7,501,039.
Current Projects and Grants
$2,500,000 Tomasko, David (PI) 2008-2013
Ohio’s Sustainable Science and Engineering Talent Expansion
Program (OSTEP) – Bridges to Success, National Science
Foundation, Co-PIs: S. Olesik, J. Ridgway, L. Mayer
$50,000 Tomasko, David (Co-PI) 2008-2009
Edheads interactive website to teach engineering design
to middle school Girls Motorola Foundation Innovation
Generation Grant, PI: S. G. Wheatley
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$400,000 Tomasko, David (PI) 2006-2009
Scalable Nanomanufacturing of High Performance Polymer
Foams, National Science Foundation,Co-PIs: I. Kusaka, L.J.
Lee, K.W. Koelling
$1,982,000 Tomasko, David (Co-PI) 2004-2009
Track 2, GK-12, Optimization and Institutionalization of
the Science Fellows Supporting Teachers (SFST) Program,
National Science Foundation, PI: S. Olesik, Co-PIs: G. McKenzie, K. Irving
$12,000,000 Tomasko, David (Co-PI) 2004-2009
Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric
Biomedical Devices, National Science Foundation
PI: L.J. Lee, Co-PIs: A.T. Conlisk, J.J. Chalmers, R. Lee
$100,000 Tomasko, David (PI) 2008-2010
Development of Melt Extrusion Processes for Pharmaceutical
Applications Using Chemical Engineering Perspectives
Hoffmann-La Roche
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$12,000,000 Tomasko, David (Co-PI) 2004-2009
Center for Affordable Nanoengineering of Polymeric
Biomedical Devices, National Science Foundation
PI: L.J. Lee, Co-PIs: A.T. Conlisk, J.J. Chalmers, R. Lee
Jessica Winter
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., University of
Texas at Austin, 2004. Nanobiotechnology,
Tissue Engineering.
Awards & Honors
Elevated to Senior Member status of IEEE
Semi-finalist Innovator of the Year, Columbus Tech
Innovation Awards
Kotov, N.A., Winter, J., Clements, I.P., Jan, E., Timko, B.P.,
Campidelli, S., Pathak, S., Mazzatenta, A., Lieber, C.M., Prato,
M., Bellamkonda, R.V., Silva, G.A., Shi Kam, N.W., Patolsky,
F., Ballerini, L., “Nanomaterials for Neural Interfaces,”
Advanced Materials. 21(40): 3970-4004, 2009.
Books and Book Chapters
Wu, W.-Y., Fong, B. A., Gillies, A. R. & Wood, D. W.,
“Recombinant Protein Purification by Self-cleaving Elastinlike Polypeptide Fusion Tag,” Current Protocols in Protein
Science, Chapter 26: Unit 26.4.1-18, (2009).
Rao, S.S., Winter, J.O., “Adhesion Molecule-Modified
Biomaterials for Neural Tissue Engineering,” Frontiers in
Neuroengineering, 2(6):1-14, 2009.
Gillies, A., Banki, M. R. & Wood, D. W., “PHB-Intein
Mediated Protein Purification Strategy,” Methods in Molecular
Biology: High Throughput Protein Expression and Purification,
Vol. 498, (ed. Sharon A. Doyle). Humana Press, Totowa, NJ,
USA, (2009).
Current Projects and Grants
$300,000 Winter, Jessica O., Sarkar, Atom 2009-2012
Brain Mimetic Materials for Cancer Cell Migration Studies,
National Science Foundation
$313,433 Winter, Jessica O., Chalmers, Jeffrey,
Brown, Anthony, 2009-2012, Fluorescent-Magnetic
Nanomanipulators for Cytoskeletal Mechanical Investigations,
National Science Foundation
$1.6 M Moldovan, N. I., Aukerman, G.F., Chalmers, J.J.,
Cooper, S.L., Kaumaya, P.T.P., Lee, J.L., Malarkey, W.B.,
Paulaitis, M.E., Philips, G. S., Rajagopalan, S., Winter, J.O.
2009-2011, CellTrap: A novel solid phase platform for analysis
of stem/progenitor cells, National Institutes of Health
$37,500 Winter, Jessica O., Sooryakumar. R. 2009-2010
Multifunctional Hybrid Nanomaterials: Synthesis,
Manipulation and Device Arrays, National Science
Foundation (OSU MRSEC, subaward)
$44,604 Winter, Jessica O. 2009-2011
Magnetic- Fluorescent Nanoparticles for Cellular and
Molecular Separations, National Science Foundation (OSU
NSEC, subaward)
David Wood
Refereed Papers
Thakur, D., Deng, S., Baldet, T., Winter, J.O., “pH sensitive
CdS–iron oxide fluorescent–magnetic nanocomposites,”
Nanotechnology, 20(48):485601, 2009.
Associate Professor, Ph.D., RPI 2000.
Biochemical Engineering, Bioseparations,
Biosensing, Protein Engineering, Drug
Discovery.
Gillies, A.G. & Wood, D.W., “Inteins in Protein Engineering,”
Protein Engineering Handbook, (eds. Stefan Lutz and Uwe
Bornscheuer). Wiley-VCH Publishers, Weinheim, Germany,
(2009).
Refereed Papers
Gawrys, M. D., Hartman, I., Landweber, L. F. & Wood, D. W.,
“Use of engineered Escherichia coli Cells to Detect Estrogenicity in Everyday Consumer Products,” Journal of Chemical
Technology and Biotechnology, 84, 1834-1840, 2009.
Hartman, I., Gillies, A. R., Arora, S., Andaya, C., Royapet, N.,
Welsh, W. J., Zauhar, R J. & Wood, D. W., “Novel Screening
Methods Using Shape Signatures and Engineered Biosensors
for Identification of Estrogen Antagonists,” Pharmaceutical
Research, 26(10), 2247-2258, 2009.
Fong, B. A., Wu, W.-Y. & Wood, D. W., “Optimization of
ELP-intein mediated protein purification by salt substitution,”
Protein Expression and Purification, 66(2), 198-202, 2009.
Current Projects and Grants
$400,000 Wood, David 2004-2010
Protein Switches for Biotechnology, National Science
Foundation
$250,000 Wood, David 2008-2010
Bacterial Biosensors for Identification of Endocrine
Disruptors Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder,
Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, Christina and Jeffrey
Lurie Family Foundation
seeding and proliferation”, Process Biochem., 44(9): 992-998
(2009).
$275,000 Wood, David 2008-2010
Bacterial Biosensors for Endocrine Disrupting Compounds,
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
$90,000 Wyslouzil, Barbara E., 2007-2010
Multicomponent droplet growth in supersonic natural gas
separators, Petroleum Research Fund
$273,404 Wood, David 2008-2011
A General Expression System for the Production of SelfPurifying Proteins, US Army Research Office.
$519,000 Wyslouzil, Barbara E., 2005-2010
The formation rates and structure of nanodroplets, National
Science Foundation
$160,000 Wood, David 2008-2010
Commercialization of CA Enzyme (with Carbozyme, Inc.),
New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.
$450,000 Wyslouzil, Barbara E., 2009-2012
Nanodroplet aerosols: Nucleation rates and structure,
National Science Foundation
Barbara Wyslouzil
$45,479 Wyslouzil, Barbara E., 2009-2010
Multifunctional nanoparticles: Formation and fundamental
studies, National Science Foundation (OSU NSEC, subaward)
Aili Wei, Xuewu Zhang, Dong Wei, Gu Chen, Qingyu Wu,
Shang-Tian Yang, “Effects of cassava starch hydrolysate on
cell growth and lipid accumulation of heterotrophic microalgae Chlorella protothecoides”, J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol.,
36(11):1383-1389 (2009).
$399,961 Bohrer, Gil, Zhao, LingYing, Wyslouzil, Barbara
E., 2010-2012, Large eddy simulations of PM dispersion
to quantify the effects of windbreaks on air quality around
CAFOs, U.S. Department of Agriculture
A. Zhang and S.T. Yang, Propionic acid production from
glycerol by metabolically engineered Propionibacterium acidipropionici, Process Biochem., 44:1346-1351 (2009).
Professor, Ph.D., Caltech, 1992. Aerosol
Science, Nucleation, Nanoparticle Growth
and Structure, Biomedical Applications of
Aerosols
Awards & Honors
College of Engineering, 2009 Lumley
R. Ng, J. S. Gurm, and S.T. Yang, “Benzalkonium chloride
sterilization of nonwoven fibrous scaffolds for astrocyte culture”, The Open Biotechnology Journal, 3:73-78 (2009).
A. Zhang and S.T. Yang, “Engineering of Propionibacterium
acidipropionici for enhanced propionic acid tolerance and
fermentation”, Biotechnol. Bioeng., 104(4):766-773 (2009).
Research Award
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Shang-Tian Yang
Current Projects and Grants
$ 90,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2006-2009
Production of Organic Acids and Esters from Plant Biomass
by Extractive Fermentation and Enzymatic Esterification, The
Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (DOE)
Refereed Papers
Sinha, S., Wyslouzil, B.E., Wilemski, G., “Modeling of H2O/
D2O Condensation in Supersonic Nozzles”, Aerosol Science
and Technology, 43(1):9–24, 2009
Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984.
Bioprocess engineering, biochemical
engineering, tissue engineering, metabolic
engineering
Wu, Y., Chalmers, J., Wyslouzil, B. E., “The use of
electrospray to disperse hydrophobic compounds in aqueous
media,” Aerosol Science and Technology, 43 (9): 902-910, 2009
Books and Book Chapters
Shang-Tian Yang, “Bioenergy”, Renewable
Energy Focus Handbook, Academic Press, San Diego, CA
(2009), Chapter 12.1, pp. 467-482.
$131,179 Yang, Shang-Tian 2007-2009
Microfluidic CD Biochips for Enzyme-Linked
Immunosorbent Assays, National Science Foundation, STTR
Phase II, BioLOC
Refereed Papers
Jie Chen, Heming Chen, Xiangchen Zhu, Yinghua Lu, ShangTian Yang, Zhinan Xu, Peilin Cen, “Long-term production
of soluble human Fas ligand through immobilization of
Dictyostelium discoideum in a fibrous bed bioreactor”, Appl.
Microbiol. Biotechnol., 82(2): 241-248 (2009).
$300,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2007-2009
Production of butanol from sugar wastes in a fibrous bed
bioreactor, EnerGenetics International, Inc.
Wu, Y., Yu,B., Jackson, A., Zha, W.B., Lee, L.J., Wyslouzil,
B.E., “Electrohydrodynamic Spraying: A novel onestep technique to prepare oligodeoxynucleotide
(ODN) encapsulated lipoplex nanoparticles,” Molecular
Pharmaceutics, 6(5): 1371–1379, 2009
Current Projects and Grants
$198,705 Wyslouzil, Barbara E., 2004-2009
Controlled drug delivery via solid lipid nanoparticles,
National Science Foundation (OSU NSEC, subaward)
R. Ng, X. Zhang, N. Liu, and S.T. Yang, “Modifications of
nonwoven polyethylene terephthalate fibrous matrices via
NaOH hydrolysis: Effects on pore size, fiber diameter, cell
$108,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2007-2009
An Integrated Fermentation-Ultrafiltration Process for
the Production of Xanthan Gum from Whey Lactose,
Bioprocessing Innovative Company, Inc., USDA SBIR Phase
II
$185,500 Yang, Shang-Tian 2008-2009
Metabolic engineering of C. tyrobutyricum and C.
acetobutylicum for butanol and hydrogen production,
Nagarjuna (India)
Wei, Y. Kawaguchi, F-Ch. Li, B. Yu, J.L. Zakin, D.J. Hart, Y.
Zhang, “Drag-reducing and Heat Transfer Characteristics of
a Novel Zwitterionic Surfactant Solution,” Int’l J. of Heat and
Mass Transfer, 52 (15-16), 3547-3554 (2009).
$1,000,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2008-2010
Engineering Clostridia for economic production of
biobutanol as a biofuel , Ohio Department of Development
Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program
Current Projects and Grants
$136, 852 Zakin, Jacques L. and S. Raghavan 2009-2010
“Investigating the Use of Light Responsive Surfactant Fluids
in Turbulent Drag Reduction, NSF Division Chem. Bioeng.,
Environ. and Transport Science.” CBET 933295
$215,144 Yang, Shang-Tian 2008-2010
Production of fumaric acid and ethanol from soybean meal,
United Soybean Board
$ 65,550 Yang, Shang-Tian 2008-2009
Engineering clostritrial fermentation for biobutanol
production, National Science Foundation, STTR Phase I,
Bioprocessing Innovative Company, Inc.,
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$110,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2009-2010
Production of fumaric acid from sugars and starch by
filamentous fungal fermentation, The Consortium for Plant
Biotechnology Research, Inc. (DOE)
Jacques Zakin
Helen C. Kurtz Professor Emeritus, D.Eng.
Sci., New York University, 1959.
Drag Reduction, Enhanced Heat Transfer,
Rheology and Nanostructure Studies of
Dilute Surfactant Solutions.
Refereed Papers
Qi, Y., K. Littrell, P. Thiyagarajan, Y. Talmon, J. Schmidt, Z.
Lin, and J. L. Zakin “Small Angle Neutron Scattering Study
of Shearing Effects on Drag-Reducing Surfactant Solutions”, J.
Rheology, J. Colloid Interface Sci, 337 (1), 218-226 (2009).
Wei, J. J., Y. Kawaguchi, F-Ch. Li, B. Yu, J.L. Zakin, D.J. Hart,
G. Oba, Y. Zhang, W. Ge, “Drag Reduction and Turbulence
Characteristics in Sub-Zero Temperature Range of Cationic
and Zwitterionic Surfactants in EG/Water Solvent,” J. of
Turbulence, 10, 1468-5248 (2009).
Professors
Bhavik R. Bakshi
Jeffrey J. Chalmers
Stuart L. Cooper
Liang-Shih Fan
Martin Feinberg
Winston Ho
Kurt W. Koelling
L. James Lee
Umit Ozkan
Michael E. Paulaitis
Associate Professors
Isamu Kusaka
Andre Palmer
David Wood
Assistant Professor
Jessica Winter
Instructors
John Corn
Carlo Scaccia
James F. Rathman
David L. Tomasko
Barbara Wyslouzil
Shang-Tian Yang
Emeritus Professors
Robert S. Brodkey
Harry C. Hershey
Thomas L. Sweeney
Jacques L. Zakin
Post Doctoral and Research Associates
Milky Agarwal
Visiting Scholar
Bo Fang
Visiting Scholar
Baley Akemi Fong
Visiting Scholar
Iraj Ghazi
Post Doctoral Researcher
Izabela Hartman
Post Doctoral Researcher
Fanxing Li
Research Associate
Jingjing Li
Post Doctoral Researcher
Wei Liu
Visiting Scholar
Qussai Mohammad
Senior Research Associate
Marashdeh
Burcu Mirkelamoglu
Research Associate
Koki Miyazono
Visiting Scholar
Huanqun Qian
Visiting Scholar
Gang Ruan
Post Doctoral Researcher
Rustin Matthew Shenkman
Post Doctoral Researcher
Saju Varghese
Visiting Scholar
Da-Ming Wang
Visiting Professor
Yi Wang
Visiting Scholar
Wan-Yi Wu
Visiting Scholar
Chuang Xue
Visiting Scholar
Mingrui Yu
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Zhao Yu
Post Doctoral Researcher
Chunxiao Zhang
Visiting Scholar
Jingbo Zhao
Post Doctoral Researcher
Yang Zhao
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David Cade
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