Stanley Wins First Place at 2016 AIChE Annual Student Conference in San Francisco

Chemical engineering students participated in the 2016 AIChE Annual Student Conference in San Francisco, CA, November 14-18, 2016. Senior Simone Stanley and juniors April Howard, Anayia Reliford, Mahtab Waseem, Bekuechukwu Uzondu, Diwash Bajracharya and Okeoghene Osevwe were our shining participants.

Simone Stanley won first place for her presentation “An Experiment Based Smartphone Education App for a Simple Introduction to Chemical Engineering Kinetics” in the General Engineering and Engineering Education category of the poster competition.

Mahtab Waseem received a research travel award to attend the North Central Branch ASM 2016 Meeting. The 76th annual meeting of the NCB-ASM was held at Iowa State University on October 21-22, 2016. Waseem won second place in the student competition for her investigation of “The Potency and Biofilm Activity of Potential PTS Modulating Compounds.” Waseem's research study is funded by a National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award.