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The emerging field of nanoscale science,engineering and technology is revolutionizingthe design and engineering of new materialsand devices. By manipulating matter atnanometer length scales, researchers in theChemical Engineering Department at Michi-gan are finding novel ways of assemblingstructures from the bottom up. Many of ourfaculty work extensively in the area, includingSharon Glotzer, Nicholas Kotov, Joerg Lahann,Mike Solomon, and Ralph Yang. In this issuewe highlight the work of Sharon Glotzer,associate professor of chemical engineering,materials science and engineering, macromo-

lecular science and engineering, and physics,and her students, who are discovering thefundamental principles of self-assembly innanomaterials using computer simulation. Self-assembly is generally regarded as the mostpromising means for designing and controllingbottom-up assembly of nanometer-scaleobjects such as the super carbon moleculesknown as Buckyballs, and tiny semi-conduct-ing nanocrystals, or “quantum dots,” intostructures such as sheets, tubes, wires, andshells needed as scaffolds and structures forcatalysis, hydrogen storage, photonic andnanoelectronic devices, and drug delivery. Byconstructing models of nanoscale buildingblocks (Figure 1) and their interactions,Glotzer’s research group simulates the assem-bly of thousands of building blocks into usefulstructures like nanotubes, nanowires,nanoshells and nanosheets.

The Glotzer group’s work has appeared inThe New York Times and is featured in theAugust 2003 issue of Nano Letters. ProfessorGlotzer, who has published 75 research andreview articles, is co-founder and the vice-chairof the AIChE’s Nanoscale Science and Engi-neering Forum and has presented over 100invited talks around the world. She regularlyadvises the Department of Energy in thedevelopment of new programs and initiatives incomputational nanoscience and large-scalescientific computing, and advised the NationalAcademy of Sciences on an upcoming report

Figure 1. Biomolecules and polymers can be used toassemble nanoscopic building blocks into exotic and usefulpatterns.

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Lahann Joins Faculty

Note From the Chair

There have been so manygreat things happening thisyear in the department thatthere is no room for myusual letter! Enjoy this year’sissue, and best wishes!

— Ron Larson

We welcomed Joerg Lahann to ourfaculty as an assistant professor this fall.Joerg received his Ph.D. in 1998 inmacromolecular chemistry from AachenUniversity in Germany where he workedwith Dr. Hartwig Hoecker. Mostrecently he has been doing postdoctoralwork with Professor Robert Langer inthe Chemical Engineering Departmentat MIT. His research is broadly relatedto surface engineering with strong ties tobiomedical engineering and nano-

technology. He has already publishedover 20 scientific publications and hascontributed to more than 10 patentapplications. Earlier this year, hisresearch on reversibly switching surfaceswas featured in an article in Science (J.Lahann, et al., A Reversibly SwitchingSurface. January 17, 2003, 299, 371-374.)(described on page 5). These “smartsurfaces” can reversibly switch propertiesin response to an external stimulus. Todemonstrate these findings, a surfacedesign was developed that can bechanged from water-attracting to water-repelling with the application of a weakelectric field. Designed as a switch,single-layered molecular-level machinesare aligned on a surface using self-assembly and are then flipped betweendefined microscopic states. This type ofsurface design may offer a new paradigmfor interfacial engineering as it amplifiesreversible conformational transitions ata molecular level to macroscopicchanges in surface properties withoutaltering the chemical identity of thesurface. Lahann has also developed anovel class of polymers with potentialfor biomimetic and spatially directedsurface engineering. This “reactivecoating” technology uses chemicalvapor deposition (CVD) polymeriza-tion to deposit a wide range of chemicalsignatures on various substrate materi-als. Its simplicity in providing chemi-cally reactive groups and its applicabil-ity to three-dimensional geometries (e.g.for microfluidics) enables the exacttailoring of surface properties and thepreparation of biologically relevantmicroenvironments. Reactive coatings

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Nicholas Kotov joined our departmentin September as an associate professor.He received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees inchemistry from the Moscow StateUniversity (Moscow, Russia) in 1987 and1990, respectively, where he worked onthe modeling of bacterial photosynthe-sis at the macroscopic interface. Follow-ing graduation, Dr. Kotov accepted apostdoctoral appointment at SyracuseUniversity in the laboratory of ProfessorJanos Fendler, where he began researchon layered nanostructures. In 1996, hejoined the Chemistry Department atOklahoma State University as anassistant professor. While at OklahomaState, Kotov developed preparationmethods and applications for layer-by-layer assembled nanoparticles and othermaterials. In addition to his researchactivities, he was also one of the

founders of a unique NSF-fundedgraduate program in photonics—a jointendeavor between the Departments ofChemistry, Electrical Engineering, andPhysics at Oklahoma State. Thisprogram trains students for careers inthe high-tech information, semiconduc-tor, and biomedical industries.

Recently, Kotov’s research group,which comprises 20 students and post-doctoral scholars, has made severalbreakthrough discoveries in the prepara-tion of ultrastrong composites that canbe used for biomedical and spaceapplications. They have also found asimple and universal method for thepreparation of semiconductor nano-wires for the emerging field ofnanoelectronics. Articles about hisresearch have been published inscientific and popular magazines suchas Nature, Science, Chemical and Engineer-ing News, The New York Times, PopularMechanics, and Science News.

Professor Kotov has received severalawards and honors, including theMendeleev Stipend, the CNRS Stipend,the NSF CAREER award, theHumboldt Fellowship, and the Awardfor Scholarly Excellence. He hasauthored more than 70 research papersin chemistry and engineering journalsand has presented over 100 papers atprofessional meetings. Presently, he isediting a volume on nanoparticlesuperstructures that will be published

by Marcel Dekker next year, in whichseveral well-known researchers willaddress the fundamental problems oforganization at nanoscale.

Dr. Kotov also maintains activeindustry ties. The processes developedin his labs are currently used in R&Dlabs at Avery-Dennison and CibaVision (Novartis, AG). A start-upcompany in Stillwater, OK, StralaMaterials, is commercializing theapplications of ultrastrong materials.Strala is a spin-off of Nomadics Inc.,which specializes in nanotechnologyresearch and development.

Kotov will continue his research innanostructured composites at Michiganwith an emphasis on biomedical andautomotive applications. His otherresearch interests include: interactionsof living cells with nanostructuredsurfaces, nanoparticles as agents forcancer treatment and diagnostics,nanoscale electronic circuits, andcarbon nanotube and natural claycomposites for a new generation ofvehicles.

As soon as he gets settled in atMichigan, Nick also plans to work withlocal middle schools to introducestudents to new advances in nano-technology and to assist educators inproviding early opportunities forscience and engineering education.

Kotov is New Associate Professor


Interdisciplinary Hires Yield Two Faculty

We welcome two additional facultymembers to our department this year,Jinsang Kim and Michael Mayer. Dr.Kim joined our faculty as an assistantprofessor in September and has a jointappointment in the Department ofMaterials Science and Engineering. Hecomes to Michigan from CaliforniaInstitute of Technology, where he wasconducting research on the bacterialsynthesis, chemical modification, andself-assembly of genetically engineeredproteins with Professor David Tirrell.His work there involved the expressionof artificial genes to determine theextent to which artificial geneticinformation can be used to encodesupramolecular assembly in macromo-lecular systems.

Dr. Kim earned his Ph.D. in 2001 inmaterials science and engineering fromthe Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy with Timothy Swager of chemistry,where he studied the synthesis ofconjugated polymers, their supramo-lecular assembly, and their function as

advanced fluorescence sensors. Tocomplete his research, Kim manipulatedconjugated polymers at the molecularand the nanostructural level to controloptoelectronic properties of the conju-gated polymers. He used this in a bio-inspired energy harvesting strategy fordirecting energy transport withinconjugated polymer thin films with theultimate goal to fabricate high perfor-mance solid-state fluorescencechemosensors. His Ph.D. thesis workwon several prestigious awards andresulted in papers in Nature, Angew.Chem., JACS, and Macromolecules. Heholds a M.S (1993) and a B.S. (1991)from Seoul National University, both inFiber and Polymer Science.

At Michigan, Kim plans to combinehis interest in biomaterials, biosensors,optoelectronic polymers, andnanostructural assembly for a variety ofapplications, such as supramolecularassembly of genetically engineeredproteins for photo- or electro-active gels,hybrid synthetic/natural polymers for

biosensors, and ordered organic/inorganic composites for photovoltaiccells.

Michael Mayer, who has a jointappointment in the Departments ofChemical Engineering and BiomedicalEngineering, will come to Michigan inJanuary 2004. Dr. Mayer received hisbachelor’s and master’s degrees inbiotechnology from Technical Univer-sity Carola Wilhelmina in Braunsch-weig, Germany. He completed hisdoctoral studies at the Swiss FederalInstitute of Technology (ETH),Lausanne, Switzerland in biophysicalchemistry in 2000, where he workedwith Horst Vogel. Currently, he is doingpost-doctoral research in biophysics,microfabrication, and nanobiotechnol-ogy with George Whitesides in theDepartment of Chemistry and ChemicalBiology at Harvard University.

Dr. Mayer’s primary interests lie intransport processes throughbiomembranes, molecular sensorsystems of living cells, and cellularcommunication. His research focuseson three areas: 1) Employing micro-and nanofabrication to assemblebiosensors for functional assays ofmembrane proteins. These assays areused to elucidate details of the cellularmachinery for signaling across mem-branes and between cells. 2) Usingmultiplexed versions of these biosensorsfor screening of new therapeutic drugs.3) Applying the working mechanisms ofthe protein machinery for membranetransport and signaling to engineerbiomimetic, nanoscale sensors, amplifi-ers, valves, and motors.

Jinsang Kim Michael Mayer

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are compatible with soft lithographicprocesses, allowing for patterning ofproteins, DNA, cytokines, and mamma-lian cells.

As he begins his career at Michigan,Lahann is looking forward to continuing

his research of the interface betweenman-made materials and cellularsystems. He sees the importance of bothinnovation and applied science in hisresearch. “Although it is immenselyimportant to push the fundamental

boundaries of research permanently,”Lahann says, “it is equally critical not tolose sight of potential applications thatmay help us to justify our efforts.”

LahannC O N T I N U E D F R O M P A G E 2

A novel material, described in theJanuary 17, 2003, issue of Science,has a unique love-hate relationshipwith water. With a flip of a switch,it alternates between attraction andrepulsion. The secret to the switch-able material, which scientists saycould have a variety of uses, iselectronically twisting moleculesarrayed on the surface. Teams havebeen able to switch surface proper-ties before, but only by laboriouslyadjusting their chemistry. Physicalchemist Joerg Lahann, a formerpost-doctoral student in the lab of

or bend over. Getting thealkanethiols to stand up was easy.Sulfur atoms at one end of themolecules naturally bind to goldsurfaces, and the molecular stalksstick straight up if packed in tightly.To bend over, however, the alka-nethiols needed breathing room,which Lahann supplied by synthesiz-ing novel alkanethiol stalks withbulky mushroom-like heads. As thesurfactant-like amphiphilic mol-ecules latched onto the gold surface,the bulky heads prevented themfrom packing tightly together.Lahann and his colleagues then useda standard chemical reaction to lopoff the tops of the mushrooms,leaving each molecular cornstalktipped with a negatively charged,water-loving carboxylic acid group.To persuade molecules to bend over,Lahann and his colleagues neededonly to wire up the gold surface to apower supply. When the researchersapplied a positive electric potential,the plate yanked down on thecarboxylic acids, exposing theirwater-repelling hydrocarbon chains.

chemical engineer Robert Langer atthe Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, wanted somethingeasier. Lahann and colleaguesturned to chainlike polymers calledalkanethiols, which naturallyassemble into what looks like rowsof tightly packed cornstalks. If theycould synthesize alkanethiols withdifferent chemical properties ontheir tops and sides and then attachthem to a plate, the researchersthought, they could alter the surfaceproperties of the plate simply bymaking the molecules stand straight

Text excerpted with permission from R. Service, “Chemists Concoct Quick-Change Surface,” Science, 299:321-323 (2003).Copyright (2003) American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Photo reprinted with permission from J. Lahann et al., “A Reversibly SwitchingSurface,” 299:317-374 (2003). Copyright (2003) American Association for theAdvancement of Science.

Lahann’s research featured in January 17, 2003 issue of Science


Cleaning up with Hot Water


Water is plentiful, inexpensive, and non-toxic. It can be more environmentallybenign to use water for industrialchemical reactions than to use organicsolvents. Of course, most organiccompounds aren’t miscible with water,which is why organic solvents aretypically used. But that “fact” is based

on our experience with room-tempera-ture liquid water. If water is heated toabout 250 – 300˚C, it becomes a verygood solvent for organic compounds.In fact, high-temperature liquid waterpossesses solvent properties that aresimilar to those of polar organicsolvents such as acetone. This behaviorallows one to envision a simple chemi-cal process wherein organic reactantsand water are mixed together, heated toform a single phase, fed to a reactor, andthe reaction products separated from thewater by reducing the temperature anddecanting the organic and aqueousphases. The potential environmentaland economic advantages that accom-pany chemical processing in high-temperature water are leading ProfessorPhil Savage and several of his graduate

students to conduct research in this area.One of the properties of high-

temperature water (HTW) that can beexploited to do industrial chemistry isits dissociation into H+ and OH- ions.The concentration of H+ ions naturallypresent in liquid water at room tempera-ture is 10-7 mol/kg (pH = 7). High-

temperature liquid water boasts aconcentration of H+ and OH- ions thatis nearly 100 times higher. Thesenaturally elevated levels of H+ and OH-

provide opportunities to do acid- andbase-catalyzed reactions in HTWwithout the addition of any traditionalacids or bases, which would reducegreatly the amount of waste byproductassociated with such catalyzed reactionprocesses.

Graduate student Craig Comisar isusing the higher level of OH- ionsnaturally present in HTW to do base-catalyzed C-C bond formation withoutadding any base catalyst. Among thereactions he has investigated is thecondensation of benzaldehyde andacetone to form benzalacetone, which isshown in the figure on the left. At

typical reaction conditions of 250˚C, thereaction reaches an equilibrium productyield of about 25% after five hours.

Graduate student Shawn Hunter isboosting even higher the level of H+ inHTW by adding CO2 to the reactor.Carbon dioxide forms carbonic acid inwater, which then dissociates to produceeven more H+. Hunter, an NSF Fellow,has shown that this environmentallybenign way to do acid-catalysis cansubstantially increase rates for alkylationand dehydration reactions. The chartbelow shows the advantage of includingCO2 in the dehydration of cyclohexanolto make cyclohexene.

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Cost-Effective Fuel Technology

Schematic of two thiophene molecules adsorbed ina cavity of CuY zeolite. The light-colored atomrepresents sulfur.

Professor Ralph Yang and his researchteam have announced the discovery ofa promising new cost-effective technol-ogy that they hope can soon be usedcommercially to remove nearly allsulfur from transportation fuels (gaso-line, diesel fuels and jet fuels), andcould also be extremely useful for fuelcell applications (Science, July 4, 2003,301, 79–81). Tougher U.S. and foreignregulations for diesel fuel, which will bephased in beginning in 2006, require adrastic reduction in sulfur content fromthe current average of 500 parts permillion (ppm) to 15 ppm. EPA stan-dards for gasoline, also now averaging at500 ppm, will soon require sulfur levelsto be reduced to 30 ppm.

The most common method ofremoving sulfur today from liquid fuels,hydrodesulfurization, which has beenaround since the 1930’s, uses a catalyst,such as Co-Mo/Al2O3 or Ni-Mo/Al2O3,to break down sulfur compounds underhigh pressures of hydrogen (20-100 atm)and elevated temperature (300-340˚C),

forming hydrogen sulfide gas. Manyindustry analysts predict that the newEPA standards will significantly raiserefining costs due to the need for highertemperatures and pressures, and thelarger reactors that will be required todo the job. For fuel cell applications,the required sulfur tolerance is notachievable by hydrodesulfurization.

Researchers have been looking foradsorbent materials that are highlyselective toward sulfur compounds forfive decades without much success.Professor Yang believes a new zeolitesorbent could be just the material thepetroleum refining industry and fuel celldevelopers need. The new sorbent,which costs about $2 per pound, isproduced by a simple ion exchangereaction, in which Na+ ions in zeolite Yare replaced with Cu+ or Ag+ ions. Theresulting product is capable of reducingthe sulfur content in commercial dieselfuel from 430 ppm to less than 0.2 ppmby weight, and each gram has the abilityto clean 34 cc of diesel.

“The new sorbent is regenerable,”says Professor Yang, who developed thenew sorbent with the help of his“outstanding PhD student,” ArturoHernández-Maldonado and postdoc-toral fellow, Frances Yang. “The newsorbent is highly selective towardaromatic sulfur compounds, such asthiophene and its derivatives, which arenot effectively removed by hydro-desulfurization. The Cu+ and Ag+

zeolites form a weak chemical bondwith the thiophene compounds, so it isreversible,” Professsor Yang says.

The sulfur compounds can therefore beremoved, allowing the sorbent to bereused.

Yang believes the new sorbent alsohas great potential for use with fuelcells, which require hydrogen. Liquidfuels are ideal energy sources for fuelcells. When used to produce thehydrogen, a fuel processor is needed toconvert the liquid fuel into hydrogen.“The fuel processor requires liquid fuelthat has less than 0.1 or 0.2 ppm sulfur.Otherwise the sulfur will poison thecatalyst,” Yang says. The new sorbentcould be just what is needed to removeany traces of sulfur from the gasoline.

Yang was interviewed by the BBC,MSNBC, C&E News, and Environmen-tal Science & Technology (EST), amongothers about this new technology.Portions of this article are taken from anEST interview with Britt E. Erickson(“Cutting the Cost of Sulfur Removal,”EST Online, July 24, 2003.) To read moreabout Professor Yang’s research, visitwww.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/people/yang.html.


My husband, William Birmingham, and I are leaving U-M this summer for faculty

positions at Grove City College, a small private college in northwestern Pennsylvania. I

will be teaching in the Mechanical Engineering Department and my husband will be

teaching in the Math and Computer Science Department.

I have greatly enjoyed my years at U-M. I particularly have fond memories of teaching

undergraduate students, both in the classroom and in my laboratory. Certain memories

stand out—the unlimited ways in which a glass of water can be used to illustrate

concepts in fluid mechanics and using cooking videos to reinforce the concepts of

conduction, convection and radiation in heat and mass transfer. All of my children still

enjoy dancing to the ‘duck’ music and the younger two still play with the rubber duck in

the bathtub (thanks, Fall 2001 ChE 342 class!).

As we move to Grove City College, we will still root for the Wolverines—the Grove City

Wolverines, that is!

Stacy Bike

Stacy Bike Leaves for Grove City Green ChemistryC O N T I N U E D F R O M P A G E 6

We were sad to see Stacy Bike and herfamily leave Ann Arbor in June, butwish her well in her new position atGrove City College. Bike, who hadbeen at the university since 1988, wasan associate professor of chemicalengineering, and macromolecular sci-ence and engineering. During hertime with the department, she taughtthe undergraduate fluid mechanicsand heat and mass transfer courses,the graduate fluid mechanics courseand a special topics course on colloidand surface chemistry.

Her research focused on quantifyingmicroscopic interactions in colloidal(nanoparticle) dispersions, and mappingthose interactions into the macroscopicbehavior of materials fabricated fromcolloidal systems. Through experimentsand modeling, her research groupquantified electrostatic interactions, vander Waals interactions, and stericinteractions, toward the precise controlof these interactions to achieve thedesired material behavior.

Professor Bike and her research group

developed an experimental technique,

total internal reflection microscopy

(TIRM), which allowed them to quantify

single-particle dynamics in liquid

systems with a resolution of nanometers.

With this technique they could measure

the interaction forces between a single

colloidal sphere and a flat plate, and to

study the interactions of biological

colloids such as lipid vesicles with

biomaterial surfaces.

BP is sponsoring a project to explorethe feasibility of synthesizing tereph-thalic acid from p-xylene in high-temperature water. Terephthalic acid is amonomer used to make polyethyleneterephthalate (PET), which is used inbeverage containers and fibers. Theselective oxidation reaction is homoge-neously catalyzed by MnBr2. JenniferDunn, a graduate student, has identifiedreaction conditions that give very highyields of terephthalic acid. She has alsoassessed the economics and environ-mental impact of an aqueous phasesynthesis process for this commoditychemical, and found that it can besuperior to the existing process on bothcounts. Jennifer has been awardedfellowships to participate in twointernational green chemistry confer-ences (in Oxford and in Tokyo), and sherecently received an EPA STAR graduatefellowship.

To read more about ProfessorSavage’s research group, visitwww.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/people/savage.html.

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H. Scott Fogler, Vennema Professor ofChemical Engineering and professor ofchemical engineering, has been namedto an Arthur F. Thurnau Professorship,an award that recognizes and rewardsfaculty for outstanding contributions toundergraduate education. The term ofthe professorship is July 1, 2003-June 30,2006.

Scott’s teaching career, during whichhe has helped train multiple generationsof undergraduate chemical engineeringstudents, has been exemplary. Histextbook, The Elements of ChemicalReaction Engineering, is the dominantundergraduate text in this field in theworld.

Devoted to undergraduate education,he has a wide range of impressive

Scott Fogler NamedArthur F. Thurnau Professor

Ron LarsonElected to NAE

accomplishments in the classroom, inthe preparation of educational materials,in innovations, and in scholarly contri-butions related to teaching and learning.An early-adopter of new teachingmethods, he has familiarized himselfwith best practices and has implementedthem in his teaching of the undergradu-ate chemical engineering course,Reaction Engineering and Design.Skillfully using in-class problem solving,real-life examples, and out-of-classactivities, he holds students’ interestsand demonstrates the relevance of thematerial. He has championed the use of“open-ended problems” as a method forstudents to develop creativity and “out-of-the-box” thinking skills, a significantenhancement to traditional rotememory and equation manipulation socommonly used in many courses. Mostsignificantly, he works tirelessly to bringinternational students, especially thosewith disadvantaged backgrounds, to theuniversity, where they can learn thelatest methods to take back to theirhome countries and influence the nextgeneration of educators.

Established in 1988, the professor-ships are named after Arthur F.Thurnau, a Michigan alumnus, and aresupported by the Thurnau CharitableTrust. Other ChE faculty who have beennamed to the Thurnau professorship areJames O. Wilkes (1989-1992) and PhillipE. Savage (1997-2000).

Ronald G. Larson, the George GrangerBrown Professor of Chemical Engineer-ing and chair of the department, wasrecognized by the National Academy ofEngineering (NAE) “for elucidating theflow properties of complex fluids at themolecular and continuum levelsthrough theory and experiment.” He iswidely regarded as a leading researcherin chemical engineering. Dr. Larson’swork in the rheology of complex fluidshas broad implications for the polymer,pharmaceutical and electronics indus-tries. In 2002, he received the BinghamMedal, the highest annual awardbestowed by the Society of Rheology.

Dr. Larson received all of his degreesin chemical engineering from theUniversity of Minnesota. After com-pleting his Ph.D., he took a position as amember of technical staff at BellLaboratories in New Jersey. There, inaddition to pursuing his basic interestsin complex fluids and fluid mechanics,he worked on applied engineeringproblems in the manufacture of inte-grated circuits, optical fibers, opticalstorage devices, and laptop computers.

Larson was among the 77 newmembers NAE honored this year, for atotal U.S. membership of 2,138. Thereare now 20 College of Engineeringfaculty members who have received thishonor.

From the Office of the Provost andExecutive Vice President for AcademicAffairs


Mike Solomon ReceivesHenry Russel Award

Michael J. Solomon has received theHenry Russel Award, one of the highesthonors the University bestows uponjunior faculty members. Dr. Solomonhas been at the University since 1997.“Mike has built a successful researchprogram in the area of experimentalmethods for polymer and colloidalscience, and his ideas have attractedsubstantial support from governmentand industrial sources,” said a letterfrom Chemical Engineering Chair,Ronald Larson, “He has a strong serviceand publication record, and is a superb

advisor to his graduate students.”As an undergraduate at the Univer-

sity of Wisconsin, Madison, Solomongraduated with degrees in both chemicalengineering and economics. Later, hespent a year in Aix-en-Provence, France,as an International Rotary Fellow ineconomics. Following his graduate workat the University of California atBerkeley and postdoctoral work at theUniversity of Melbourne, Dr. Solomonjoined the faculty at the University ofMichigan in 1997. Since his arrival, hehas provided stellar contributions inteaching and research.

Dr. Solomon combines an eleganceof research methodology with a trueaffinity and dedication to teaching.Many of his colleagues at the universityhave noted with admiration his devo-tion to students at all levels, from thosein his introductory course in chemicalengineering, to the graduate students hementors. He is legendary for memoriz-ing the names of over 100 students inthe first week of a semester, and for theintensive individual attention heprovides. One colleague notes that he“makes a real effort to impart the joy oflearning and discovery to each student.”

Both the Henry Russel Award andthe Henry Russel Lectureship wereestablished in 1925 with a bequest fromHenry Russel of Detroit, who receivedthree degrees from the University ofMichigan.

Mike Solomon with University of MichiganPresident, Mary Sue Coleman, at the RusselAward ceremony in March 2003.

Schwank SpeaksTo Congress

Johannes Schwank, testifying before aHouse committee on May 20, urgedCongress to consider creating a univer-sity-based hydrogen research programto capitalize on the expertise at U.S.universities in creating a hydrogen fueleconomy.

Dr. Schwank told members of theHouse Energy and Commerce Commit-tee that while research on hydrogen fuelcells is ongoing at U-M and elsewhere,a larger, better federal research programis needed.

“The scope and scale of the federaleffort to overcome the importanttechnical challenges is sorely inad-equate,” he said. “If we as a nation aregoing to see the transition to a hydro-gen economy, securing our technicalleadership in the world, then we mustcreate a more comprehensive andcoordinated program.”

Dr. Schwank urged the committee tolook at creating an Energy ResearchInitiative (ERI) either at the NationalScience Foundation or the Departmentof Energy. The ERI would focus onhydrogen fuel research and would selecta group of six to 10 universities thatwould undertake an integrated set ofbasic research and education projectsfocusing on resolving the technologicalchallenges that impede hydrogen fuelcell development.

Martin Vloet, U-M Photo Services

From The University Record and the Officeof the President

By Mark Burnham, U-M Washington,D.C. Office

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Faculty

Scott Fogler received the 2003 Univer-sity of Missouri-Rolla Named Lecture-ship. This lectureship, which is analo-gous to the our department’s KatzLectureship, was presented on April 23and 24, 2003. His lecture topics were“Fused Chemical Reactions: FromPharmacokinetics of Acute Toxicologyto Wax Removal in Sub-Sea Oil Pipe-lines” and “Using Senior Unit Opera-tions Laboratory to Develop TroubleShooting Skills and to Ease the Transi-tion to the Work Place.” Professor Foglerhas also received named lectureshipsfrom University of Oklahoma,Vanderbilt, North Carolina State,Oklahoma State, University of PuertoRico, and Michigan State University.

Susan Montgomery received a Collegeof Engineering Teaching ExcellenceAward, given annually to a non-tenuretrack faculty member who exhibitsoutstanding or unusual teaching skills.

This year Dr. Montgomery also re-ceived a Society of Women Engineers(SWE) Teaching Award and an Ameri-can Society for Engineering Education’s(ASEE) Spread the Word/CampusRepresentative Zone award for recruitingthe highest percentage of students intothe local chapter.

An article by Mike Solomon and recentPh.D. graduate, Priya Varadan, ap-peared in and was profiled on the coverof the February 4, 2003, issue ofLangmuir. The article, titled “DirectVisualization of Long-Range Heteroge-

neous Structure in Dense ColloidalGels,” was based on the research done atMichigan by Dr. Varadan and Dr.Solomon.

Levi Thompson was selected to receivethe 2003 GEM Outstanding Alumni inAcademia Award in recognition of hisoutstanding achievements in the field ofeducation. GEM is the NationalConsortium for Graduate Degrees forMinorities in Engineering and Science.

Robert Ziff was elected Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society. Dr. Ziffreceived this honor for his sustainedcontributions to understanding thekinetics of aggregation and fragmenta-tion, nonequilibrium chemical reac-tions, kinetic phase transitions andpercolation theory.

Graduate Students

Jennifer Dunn, from Phil Savage’sresearch group, received an EPAScience to Achieve Results (STAR)fellowship from the EPA's NationalCenter for Environmental Research.The center awards fellowships tostudents in environmental science andengineering disciplines who wereselected by an independent peer reviewprocess. During the fellowship term, shewill continue studying the partialoxidation of alkyl aromatics in high-temperature water, an environmentallybenign solvent.

Alumni

Stuart W. Churchill, the Carl V.S.Patterson Professor Emeritus of Chemi-cal and Biomolecular Engineering,University of Pennsylvania, received theNational Academy of Engineering’s2002 NAE Founders Award, whichrecognizes an NAE member who hasmade lifelong contributions to engineer-ing and whose accomplishments havebenefited the people of the UnitedStates. Dr. Churchill was recognized“for outstanding leadership in research,education, and professional service, andfor continuing contributions in combus-tion, heat transfer, and fluid dynamicsfor over half a century.”

The Council of the National Academyof Sciences has selected PeterLederman as a National Associate inrecognition of his service to the organi-zation. The national academies serve asadvisors to the nation in science,engineering, and medicine.

HandyLab, Inc, a spin-off of MarkBurns’ research lab formed by twoformer ChE graduate students, KalyanHandique and Sundaresh Brahma-sandra, was featured in the March 17,2003 issue of The Wall Street Journal.(www.handylab.com/news/wsj_03172003.html) HandyLab developsand manufactures portable, low-costnucleic acid and protein-based analysissystems. The patented, self-containedmicrofluidic systems are capable ofintegrating and automating multiplelaboratory processes on a single chip.

Kudos


Cache-Computer Aids for ChemicalEngineering EducationBrice Carnahan, Ph.D.

Chemical Engineering Alumni-FacultyMerit ScholarshipDr. George T.S. ChenPamela MakerMerck Research Laboratories

Chemical Engineering Fellowships FundWarren D. GilbertClarence J. Young Family Trust

ChE Special FundAbbott Laboratories FundAir Products FoundationLyle F. Albright, Ph.D.BASF Corporation-HeadquartersB. Karl BusseyDan ChapelChevronTexacoS. Thomas ClevelandGus Constan, Ph.D.Consumers Energy CompanyDaimlerChrysler FundThomas G. DeJonghe, J.D.W. Nicholas DelgassDePriester 1990 TrustDow Corning CorporationDTE Energy FoundationSteven P. DuganJohn F. DydoDr. Earl A. EbachJacob Eichhorn, Ph.D.ExxonMobil FoundationNicholas Fatica, Ph.D.Robert C. FiskFluor FoundationFord Motor Company FundGeneral Motors FoundationMartin E. Gluckstein, Ph.D.Thomas W. GougeonSharon GraboisGreat Lakes Chapter of ISPEDarryl T. Hansen TTEE

William G. HarrisonMr. David B. HarwoodMartin A. Javinsky, Ph.D.Prof. Ronald G. LarsonLubrizol FoundationMr. Benjamin S. MaxeyMerck Research LaboratoriesDr. Donald A. NastMr. Alfred A. NuttallMichael S. O’DonnellPharmacia Foundation, Inc.Mr. Rudolph W. Pomper IIIProcter & Gamble FundDr. Roger K. RainsDonald J. RayMr. Charles J. SawyerDr. Jerome S. SchultzShell Oil Company FoundationJames R. Street, Ph.D.Tenho S. Connable TrustLaura ThomsonMs. Katherine R. ValentineVan J. Wolf EstateMr. Joseph H. VavraHanh X. VoH. Ray WortmanWinfred C. Zacharias

Chemical Engineering UndergraduateScholarshipBASF Corporation-HeadquartersBP Amoco FoundationExxonMobil FoundationMerck Research LaboratoriesMinnesota Mining and ManufacturingCompanyDr. Ralph H. SchatzDonald SchriverUOP LLC

Clifton S. Goddin Fundin Chemical EngineeringBP Foundation, IncClifton S. Goddin, TTEE Rev Trust

Cosmo Oil Co.Cosmo Oil Co. LTD

Dow Chemical DiscretionaryThe Dow Chemical Company Foundation

Dow Chemical Grant Fund in ChemicalEngineeringDow Chemical Company Foundation

Exxon Education Foundation Grant FundExxonMobil Corporation

G. Brymer Williams Student Aid FundBristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc.Finis E. Carleton III, Ph.D.ChevronTexacoJames A. Craig, Ph.D.Dr. Earl A. EbachDavid W. HaartzDr. Hua-Tie T. KauMr. Thomas H. LaityRichard S. Mayer, Ph.D.Dorothy MaxwellRobert H. Miller, Ph.D.Mr. Garry M. MlotDr. George J. QuardererDr. Roger K. RainsRobert WeisLeonard A. Wenzel, Ph.D.James O. and Mary Ann Wilkes

Industrial Affiliates Program in Flow andReaction in Porous MediaBaker Hughes Business SupportChevron TexacoConocoPhillips CompanySchlumbergerShell International E & P, Inc.Total E&P USA, Inc.

James O. Wilkes Undergraduate ScholarshipExxonMobil FoundationCharles E. FivelsonDr. Jeremy M. Hales

Gifts from our Alumni, Friends, and Research PartnersJuly 2002 to June 2003

Thank you for your generous gifts to the Department of Chemical Engineering. If we have missed someone, please accept our apology, and also let us know so we can correct our records.

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Michelle A. RasulisDr. Bernard J. SchorleSharon H. ThatcherDr. Antonio ValleProf. Brymer WilliamsFinis E. Carleton III, Ph.D.Joseph P. Greene, Ph.D.Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLCDonald K. McCordMr. Richard L. PetersonDr. Jude Thomas SommerfeldDorothy Maxwell

Jane & Howard M. TenBroeckScholarship in EngineeringFBO TenBroeck Irrevocable Trust

Lloyd L. Kempe Scholarshipin Chemical EngineeringTheodore H. Elferdink, Jr.Roger A. FrederickDr. William B. Woods

M Eng Pharmaceutical Engineering ProgramPfizer, Inc.

Margaret I & G. William RichardsMemorial ScholarshipMarathon Oil Company FoundationMr. William B. Richards, P.E.

Merck Company FoundationFellowship SupportMerck & Co., Inc.Merck Company Foundation

Procter and Gamble Department Grantin Chemical EngineeringProcter & Gamble Fund

Shell Fellowship Fundin Chemical EngineeringShell Oil Company Foundation

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing SymposiumAmgen, Inc.Merck Research LaboratoriesPfizer, Inc.

NanotechnologyC O N T I N U E D F R O M F R O N T P A G E

on chemical sciences in the 21st century.Sponsored by grants from the NationalScience Foundation and the Depart-ment of Energy, Professor Glotzer andher students are inventing new ways ofusing computer simulation to modelnanoscale assembly. By elucidating themyriad of structures that can be formedby different types of nano buildingblocks, how the structures assemble, andunder what conditions certain structureswill form, the simulations providefundamental information critical todesigning new materials and devices.For example, the group is studying howDNA, proteins, and viruses attached to

strategic locations on nanocrystals canbe used to assemble gold nanospheresand silver nanocubes into regularly-spaced patterns. By exploiting the“lock-and-key” recognitive capabilities ofcomplementary strands of DNA, tinynanoparticles can be reversibly attachedto one another to form ordered arraysneeded for nanoelectronic circuits andchemical and biological sensors. How touse recognitive, biomimetic interactionsto obtain specific predictable structuresfor particular applications is onemystery the Glotzer group is trying tosolve.

The research group is also attachingsynthetic organic molecules or polymersto model inorganic nanoparticlesshaped like spheres, rods, disks, cubes,and triangles (Figure 2) to create hybridtethered nanobuilding blocks that self-assemble into amazing tunable struc-tures such as nanowires and nanoshells.Their simulations suggest that tetherednanoparticles may constitute a new classof “macromolecules” for nanomaterialsassembly. Glotzer has just beenawarded a new grant from the Depart-ment of Energy to apply her group’sself-assembly strategies to the design andfabrication of molecular electronicsdevices.

To read more about ProfessorGlotzer’s research or that of any of theother faculty doing nanotechnologyresearch, visit the faculty webpages atwww.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/people/dirfac.html.

Figure 2. Short polymers attached to nanocrystalsproduce new types of macromolecules that can beassembled into designer materials.


On April 10 and 11, we had thepleasure of a visit from Jerome S.(“Jerry”) Schultz and his wife Jane. Jerrywas the 2003 recipient of the DonaldL. Katz Lectureship, and his two talkswere entitled “Learning from Biology:From Membranes to Sensors” and“Making Sense Out of Biosensors.”Jerry, who did his undergraduate workat Columbia University and hisgraduate work at Wisconsin, joined ourfaculty in 1971. His contributions tobioengineering while at Michigan wererecognized by the College ofEngineering’s Research Award in 1983and the AIChE Food, Pharmaceuticaland Bioengineering Award in 1984.Jerry left Michigan in 1987 for theUniversity of Pittsburgh, where hebecame director of the Center forBiotechnology and Bioengineering.He was elected to the NationalAcademy of Engineering in 1994. Apresentation was made to Jerry at theaccompanying annual Katz dinner,which also recognizes those of ourdoctoral students whose graduation isimminent.

Schultz GivesKatz Lecture

Jerry with ChE Chair Ron Larson at the KatzLectureship Dinner.

College Celebrates150th BirthdayOne hundred fifty years ago, theUniversity of Michigan College ofEngineering began educating engineers,with the first class session held onJanuary 20, 1854. This fall, the collegewill begin a celebration of a centuryand a half of learning and leadership.

Some of the activities planned duringthe next year include:

Saturday, September 6Football Halftime Show, Michigan vs.HoustonCome hear the Michigan Marching Bandand Michigan Engineering students as theycelebrate 150 years of engineering excellencewith a tribute to the College of Engineering.

Tuesday, September 9North Campus Day Festival andAnniversary DayJoin the entire CoE community during thePierpont Commons North Campus DayFestival as we recognize the College’s 150th

anniversary. Enjoy a slice of birthday cake atthe diag adjacent to Lurie Tower.

Thursday, October 16-Saturday,October 18Michigan Engineering Alumni Weekendfeaturing the Sesquicentennial Deans’ForumThe traditional homecoming celebrationoffers a special treat on Friday afternoon asDean Director and five former MichiganEngineering deans share their experiences asleaders of the College. Don’t miss this raregathering. For more information go to http://www.engin.umich.edu/alumni/events/weekend/ or call 734-647-7042

Friday, October 3 - Monday,October 27Michigan Engineering History DisplayThe college will chronicle 150 years ofengineering education in a display in theGallery at the Media Union in October.Artifacts and photos from the 11 collegedepartments will be featured in the display.A reception officially opening the display willbe held on Friday, October 3.

Distillation column used in the ChE 460 laboratory,with Brymer Williams on right.

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Our 662-page hard-cover history bookwith its 560 photographs, A Century ofChemical Engineering at the University ofMichigan, was published in March 2003.Thanks largely to the kind and trustingpeople who prepaid before publication,we now have fewer than 300 copiesremaining of the print run of 850. Thebook looks good, and has been excep-tionally well received, as evidenced bythe following comments we havereceived:

“You should be very proud ofit . . . I want to tell you howmuch I enjoyed reading thisbook - I read it from cover to

cover. . . Marvelous book . . .I love the ChE history book . . .I can’t say enough about thebook, it’s so intriguing . . .You’ve done such a wonderfuljob!. . . Your opus is superb, youhave brought our department tolife . . . Congratulations onputting it all together! . . . It is afascinating history, a delight toread and cherish . . . I stayed upvery late last night to read, pageby page, all the history of this sospecial department . . . It truly isa monumental work . . . Infiniteattention to detail . . .The

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If you don’t already have a copy of ACentury of Chemical Engineering at theUniversity of Michigan,” it can be yoursfor just $25, including postage, if youwill just take a minute to complete thecoupon below and mail it to us. Thankyou!

James O. Wilkes, compiler of A Century ofChemical Engineering at the University ofMichigan and “Organist for Hire” (1974).


Every year we have many undergradu-ates who depend on our scholarships tohelp with their finances. This year somestudents are in particular need ofassistance because of tuition increasesand reduced financial aid packages.Three endowed funds established inhonor of ChE faculty and anothergeneral undergraduate scholarship fundfor undergraduate assistance, theFaculty/Alumni Scholarship, are amongthe accounts used to fund our under-graduate awards.

The Faculty/Alumni Scholarshipfund relies entirely on donations. Anendowment has been established for the

other funds, and the annual scholarshipsare paid from the accrued interest. Wegladly accept any donations you canmake towards any of these funds, inwhich case please complete the form be-low and mail it to us. And, of course, ifyour personal finances allow, we wouldbe happy to establish a scholarship fundunder your own name!

Criteria for the scholarships men-tioned in this article are as follows:

Lloyd L. Kempe and Barbara B.Scholarship Fund – is awarded to anoutstanding student in the biochemical areawho has financial need.

Brymer Williams Scholarship Fund -recipients are selected based on their scholar-ship and financial need.

James O. Wilkes Scholarship Fund -applicants are interviewed, and considerableweight is given to those students who areworking to help pay their own way throughcollege.

Faculty/Alumni Fund - awarded tostudents who have financial need and whohave excellent academic records.

Undergraduate Scholarships

Lloyd L. Kempe G. Brymer Williams James O. Wilkes Faculty/Alumni

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Dr. Stuart W. Churchill was the 2003recipient of the ChE Alumni SocietyMerit Award. He was honored atdepartment and college events duringMichigan Engineering Alumni Week-end in October. Dr. Churchill receivedbachelor’s degrees in both chemicalengineering and mathematics from theUniversity of Michigan in 1942. Hereturned to the university for graduatework in 1947. He became a member ofthe faculty even before completing hisPh.D. in 1952, and served as chairmanof the Department of Chemical andMetallurgical Engineering at Michiganfrom 1962 to 1967. In 1967, Dr.

Churchill left Michigan to accept theCarl V.S. Patterson Chair of ChemicalEngineering at the University ofPennsylvania.

Best known for his work encompass-ing fluid mechanics, heat transfer,reaction kinetics and combustion, hehas published six books and nearly 300papers. He formally retired in 1990, buthas remained active in teaching, re-search, and scholarly work. Dr.Churchill is a member of the NationalAcademy of Engineering and wasrecently honored with its FoundersAward. Dr. Churchill served as adirector of the American Institute ofChemical Engineers (AIChE) from 1961to 1967 and as its president in 1966. Hehas received many awards in his career,including AIChE’s William H. Walkerand W.K. Lewis awards. In 1983,AIChE named Dr. Churchill one of 30“Eminent Chemical Engineers of theQuarter Century” during its 75th

anniversary.Dr. Churchill is a member of the

department’s External Advisory Com-mittee. His granddaughter, Lara G.Zajic, is following in her grandfather’sfootsteps and has just completed herfreshman year at Michigan, althoughshe is studying biology rather thanchemical engineering!

2003 Alumni SocietyMerit Award

THEODORE C. ARGUE

Meghann Stricker

BASF

Rebecca Domzal, Priscilla Ho,

Jessica Mattis, and Melissa McGinnis

HELEN B. GIBSON

Landon Greene and Adam Cole

CLIFTON S. GODDIN

Shauna Puhl and Dan Schmidt

LLOYD L. AND BARBARA B. KEMPE

Adam Cole

LUBRIZOL

Suchita Shah and Bryan Styles

MERCK

Sean Vance

IAN & FRANCIS PATTERSON

Jennifer Bowker

JANE & HOWARD TEN BROECK

Chitra Laxmanan

JAMES O. WILKES

Laura Darjatmoko and Derek Bagozzi

G. BRYMER WILLIAMS

Nicole Arnold, Adam Redstone, Marc

Schneidkraut, Jekaterina Severova,

Matt Smith, and Santy Sulaiman

UNDERGRADUATESCHOLARSHIPS

From the College of Engineering Mediaand Marketing


Alumni NotesDon Kory (BSE ’50) still keeps in touch witha couple of people from the U-M andoccasionally joins the alumni group in southFlorida for a football afternoon. Don and hiswife have two very young grandchildren, agirl 6 and a boy almost 3. He is still a sailorbut has not done much sailing as of late—even though he lives in a great place to do it.

Tom Vanden Bosch (BSE ’59) retired in 1997after 36 years in process development,process engineering and plant management.He is currently doing a little consulting inbatch chemical manufacturing. Mostly he’senjoying family, hobbies and travel.

Jude Sommerfeld (MSE ’60, PhD ’63)retired from the faculty of the School ofChemical Engineering at Georgia Tech inAugust 2002. He served for 32 years on theschool’s faculty, including 8 years as associatedirector of the school.

Thomas Cleveland (BSE ’61, MSE ’63,MBA ’63) published his thesis at StanfordUniversity, June 22, 2002 entitled “Compari-son of Resampling Methods for ImprovingConfidence Intervals in Group SequentialTrials on Rare Event Target Populations.”

Steve Pondell (BSE ’79) has taken a newposition as VP-Operations for CambrexCorporation in Charles City, Iowa. It’s a bigchange in leaving, first Detroit, and then,Chicago but he and his family are lookingforward to life in Small Town, USA in theHeartland! He says he’ll miss his engineeringrecruiting for Abbott but hopes to be able toassist the college in some way from Iowa. Hewould like a great, big Meechigan victoryover those pesty Hawkeyes this fall. His usualobnoxious behavior in support of Blue hashad to be tempered somewhat after lastseason!

James Medalie (BSE ’81) has been promotedto president of Kleerdex Company. Kleerdex

Company, a subsidiary of Sekisui ChemicalLtd. (Japan) is the manufacturer of Kydex®thermoplastic sheet which is a specialty sheetused to make three-dimensional componentsfor a multitude of applications. He lives withhis wife Lynn and his children Susan andPhilip in the small town of Bloomsburg innorth-central PA.

Bruce K. Vaughen (BSE ’84) (PhDVanderbilt 1989) transferred to theDuPontTeijinFilms joint-venture polyesterfilm plant in Hopewell, VA, in 2000. Hisprimary work concentrates on applying theProcess Safety Management (PSM) principlesper the OSHA and corporate PSM Standardsacross the site’s polymer and film productionareas. He is the Americas’ regional coordina-tor for PSM efforts between six polymer andfilm production sites and leads corporatePSM audits at other DuPont business sites.

Alex Packard (BSE ’91) has been withAbbott Laboratories (Chicagoland area) sincegraduation and is currently in pharmaceuticalmanufacturing. He is married and has twochildren—the oldest will be starting kindergar-ten in the fall.

Scott Adams (BSE ’94) has worked for EatonCorporation since graduation. He wasmarried to Julie Weiss in June of 2000 andthey live in Rochester Hills, MI. Hecompleted a master’s in engineering at CaseWestern Reserve University in Cleveland,OH in 1998 and will begin the University ofMichigan’s Executive MBA program inAugust 2003.

Kari (Andrews) Walworth (BSE ’94) and herhusband, Kyle, welcomed a new member totheir family this past spring, a lovelydaughter, Kelsey Grace, who was born onMay 29, 2003 at U-M Hospital. Kelsey istheir first! Kari and her family are living inAnn Arbor and she is currently on maternityleave from her job as an environmental

engineering specialist at Ford MotorCompany. She says hello and best wishes toall ChE alumni and especially to the class of1994! Go Blue!

Jeremy Bjork (BSE ’94) just graduated fromthe Wharton School of Business this May.He and his wife, Adriana, moved to Frisco,Texas (a suburb of Dallas) this summer so hecould start his job in marketing at Frito Lay.

Kristin Gross (BSE ’94) is working as a salesmanager in the human nutrition division ofChr. Hansen, which supplies probiotics,excipients, coatings, colors and flavors to thenutritional supplement and pharmaceuticalindustries.

Michelle Zimmerman (BSE ’94) works as astrategic marketing manager at NovellusSystems in Silicon Valley. She is alsolaunching a career developmentseminar called “Women: Make Your Mark”and working on her first book, acollection of poetry.

Kim Wicklund (BSE ’95) graduated with herPh.D. from UC-Berkeley’s ChemicalEngineering Department in May 2001. Shespent a year working as a research scientist,then moved to a sales/applications scientistposition at a digital imaging/systemsengineering company that specializes influorescence microscopy applications. Kim’sbased in San Francisco, so if anyone is in thearea, drop her a line!

Venu Ghanta (BSE ’96) is currently servingas a Peace Corps volunteer in Janakpur,Nepal. He is a secondary school scienceteacher and hopes to have a water andsanitation engineering focus for his second-ary project. You can contact him [email protected].

Dieter Schweiss (MSE ’96) married LeilaAnn Grubby on March 22, 2002 and onNovember 18, 2002, their son, Devin PeterSchweiss, was born. He is currently betweenjobs, but hopes to find employment in theNew Jersey area.

Visit the ChE Alumni News page at www.engin.umich.edu/dept/cheme/alumni.html

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Amanda Uhrick (BSE ’97) has been verybusy in the five years since graduation. Shestarted out in Chicago, doing catalystresearch for Amoco Oil Co. Within a yearand a half, the company was bought out byBP and she ended up in Houston, TXworking in a refinery. Three and a half yearslater Amanda made it full circle and is nowback in Chicago. She is still with BP, but isnow working in their supply and tradingorganization. As for her personal life, she ishappy to announce that she got married thissummer in Northern Michigan.

Ellyne Buckingham (BSE ’97) is still atProcter & Gamble in Cincinnati, OH, and issenior process development engineer in thepaper division. She married another P&G’er,Mike Prodoehl, in Michigan on Saturday,June 28, 2003.

Jeffrey Sanchez (BSE ’97) is still working inAnn Arbor for USFilter as a project engineerin engineering consulting where he isprimarily doing industrial wastewaterengineering work.

Andrea Brown (BSE ’98) is a projectmanagement associate at Eli Lilly andCompany and campus recruiter for Lillyengineering recruiting. She plans to marryMichael Ferguson (UIUC engineering grad)on September 6, 2003 in Indianapolis, IN.

Andrea (Bologna) Barringer (BSE ’99) hassettled down, gotten married, and has been atLear Corporation for three years. She wasrecently promoted to a sales accountmanager.

Carmita Burnette (BSE ’99) has justcompleted her first year at Kellogg School ofManagement at Northwestern University andthis summer interned at Quaker Foods andBeverages. She has recently traveled to SouthAfrica and Botswana to study the role offoreign direct investment in each country’scurrent economic development efforts.Carmita will also be a part of an exchangeprogram next winter, during which she willstudy at the London Business School.

Tom Kaminski (BSE ’99) is still workingwith Accenture (based out of Detroit). Herecently became engaged and will be gettingmarried in May 2004.

Charley Lloyd (BSE ’99) will be pursuing amaster’s degree in college student personnelfrom the University of Maryland in fall 2003.Upon receiving her degree, she plans tobegin her new career as a student develop-ment educator supporting the academic andprofessional development of engineering andscience students.

Jenny Ma (BSE ’99) is working as a processengineer at 3M in Cottage Grove, MN. Shemarried Chris Harvey on June 28, 2003 inMichigan. Chris and Jenny met at 3M in1998. They plan on staying in the Saint Paularea . . . for now.

Andrea Messmer (BSE ’99) is still working atApplied Materials in Santa Clara, CA, whereshe’s been for the past four years, as a globalproduct manager. On top of her duties atApplied Materials, she keeps busy in her freetime by volunteering at several Silicon Valleyorganizations and even finds time fortraining and competing in triathlons. Andreawill be leaving Applied soon and her short-term plans include seven months of extensivetravel through Asia, starting this summer.

Cynthia (Postema) Frayman (BSE ’99)married her high school sweetheart, ChuckFrayman, in 1999 and now resides inMundelein, IL (a suburb of Chicago). Sheworks at Abbott Laboratories in NorthChicago as a senior controls engineer.

Kristen (Walkush) Yeh (BSE ’99) and herhusband Elbert (MA Education ’99) areexpecting their first child in November 2003.They are very excited to become parents!Kristen is working for GE Silicones inWaterford, NY and recently accepted a newposition: Center of Excellence Leader forSupply Chain. She is working with hercolleagues in Europe and Asia to leverage theglobal capabilities of SAP within silicones.

Mark Dettling (BSE ’01) is currently agraduate student at Cornell University in theDepartment of Natural Resources. Hisresearch focuses on the interactions betweenmicroorganisms and certain trace metals inpeatland (a type of wetland) ecosystems.

Jeff Dowell (BSE ’01, MSE ’01) worked inBASF’s PDP rotation program after graduat-ing in 2001. He now is working in Toyota’sMaterials Engineering Department at theirAnn Arbor location.

Nathan Hoffman (BSE ’01) is still with GEPlastics, but now is working at the Evansville,IN site.

Irene Kokkinos (BSE ’01) has been living inGreen Bay, WI since graduation. She is aprocess engineer for Procter and Gamble at apaper products manufacturing site. She saysto tell everyone to buy Puffs tissues!

Rachel Latvala (BSE ’01) is repairingrestaurant equipment while pursuing amassage certificate at the Ann Arbor Institutefor Massage Therapy. Next year she plans toapply for a teaching position in Japan where,in addition to learning Japanese, she hopes tolearn acupuncture.

Michelle Wu (BSE ’01) received her master’sin chemical engineering practice from MITin August 2002. She’s now working forBristol-Myers Squibb in Syracuse, NY as anengineer in the biotechnology purificationdevelopment group.

Tracy L. Matson (BSE ’02) has been living inGreen Bay, WI since graduation. She isworking as a process engineer for Procter andGamble at a paper manufacturing site,specifically in Charmin.

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CLEANING DAY AT THE COLLEGE

The First Annual College of Engineering Clean-Up Day was

a tremendous success! On May 31, the college recycled a

total of 110,000 pounds of material and sent another 78,000

pounds to the landfill. These totals included 66,000 pounds

of paper, 16,000 pounds of scrap metal, 62,000 pounds of

concrete and 16,000 pounds of trash. This was the largest

clean-up project ever undertaken at the university. We had

so many volunteers who pitched in to tidy up the depart-

ment that day that we managed to win a college prize, a

$50 gift certificate, awarded to the department with the

most participants.

Graduate student Anshuman Roy moves another box into thecrowded hallway in the Dow Building on Clean-Up Day

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