A MESSAGE FROM THE SCHOOL HEADGreetings! In this latest issue of Diffusion, we recognize outstanding achievements by our students, faculty and alumni, who have earned awards over the past year. A special insert highlights our CBEE student athletes, who stay on top of their studies while also excelling in their sport.We recently honored three of our accomplished alumni with Oregon Stater Awards - one distinguished engineer and two outstanding early career engineers. The awards dinner was held on March 1st at the Portland Art Museum, where earlier that day, Oregon State graduate students presented their research at the College of Engineering Graduate Research EXPO. As always, we highly value the hard work and accomplishments of the Oregon State Engineer. Go Beavs!My best,James D. Sweeney School Head & Kuse Chair jim.sweeney@oregonstate.edu

IN THIS ISSUE:

2 AROUND THE SCHOOL Callahan Faculty Scholar NSF Career Awards Graduate Student Fellowships College of Engineering Awards OSU Awards Graduate Research EXPO

Awards3 LANDMARK NEWS! 2016 Oregon Staters

Outstanding Alumni Awards4 FACTS & FIGURES CBEE by the Numbers Upcoming Events Undergraduate Plans

Special Insert: 2015-16 CBEE Athletes

March 2016: Johnson Hall Labs Begin to Take Shape

Chemical, Biological & Environmental Engineering

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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

Ryan Frederick, PhD. candidate in chemical engineering, working with Dr. Greg Herman.

AROUND THE SCHOOLCALLAHAN FACULTY SCHOLAR IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERINGIn 2011 Darry Callahan (ChE ’64) and his wife, Betty, established the Callahan Faculty Scholar Endowment Fund in Chemical Engineering to help OSU continue to power the world.We are pleased to announce that in 2015 Dr. Nick AuYeung was named the Callahan Faculty Scholar in Chemical Engineering. An assistant professor in the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, AuYeung’s research centers around using sustainable energy in the conversion of readily available feedstocks into fuels, fertilizers, or other useful products. Dr. AuYeung earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering at the University of Connecticut and then came to Oregon State University to complete his doctoral degree in chemical engineering working under Dr. Alex Yokochi. Prior to returning to Oregon State in January 2015, AuYeung spent three years at the University of Florida, where he managed two federally-funded solar thermochemical energy storage projects on a postdoc appointment.

TWO FACULTY RECEIVE NSF CAREER AWARDS

CBEE assistant professors Karl Schilke and Devlin Montfort are both recipients of the prestigious five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Dr. Montfort (upper left), CBEE assistant professor of environmental engineering, specializes in engineering education. His research proposal: “Personal Epistemology in Engineering Education.” Montfort is a civil engineer and joined the CBEE faculty in August 2013.

Dr. Schilke (lower left), assistant professor of bioengineering, was the previous Callahan Faculty Scholar in CBEE (see above). His research proposal: “High-Density Non-Fouling Bioactive Coatings for Processing of Biological Fluids.” Schilke joined CBEE in September 2012.

CBEE students Hannah Rolston, Mark Surette and Ryan Frederick have been awarded prestigious three-year fellowships. Rolston was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (https://ndseg.asee.org/). Awarded by the Department of Defense, these three-year graduate fellowships are offered to individuals who have demonstrated the ability and special aptitude for advanced training in science and engineering.Surette was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (https://www.nsfgrfp.org/). This program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported STEM disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited institutions in the United States. Frederick was awarded an Intel/SRC Education Alliance Fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. (https://www.src.org/student-center/fellowship/). The award is based on the alignment of the student’s research interests with the interests of the company, and comes with assignment of an industry advisor who will act as a mentor.

Mark Surette, PhD. candidate in environmental engineering, working with Dr. Jeff Nason.

Hannah Rolston, Ph.D. candidate in environmental engineering, working with Dr. Lew Semprini.

GRADUATE STUDENTS AWARDED FELLOWSHIPS

2016 OREGON STATERS - OUTSTANDING ALUMNI AWARDSIn 1998, the college introduced the annual Oregon Stater awards to honor outstanding alumni and friends for their contributions to the engineering profession and to Oregon State University. There are three award categories determined by length of career and accomplishments. This year, CBEE awarded three alumni in the following categories:Academy of Distinguished Engineers - Membership in the OSU Academy of Distinguished Engineers is awarded to mid-career Oregon Staters who have sustained distinguished contributions to the profession, field, OSU, or society at large. They have at least 20 years of experience beyond their bachelor’s degree and are still practicing their profession.Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers - The OSU Council of Outstanding Early Career Engineers is reserved for Oregon Staters who have distinguished themselves through professional practice and/or service to OSU, the profession, or society at large. These individuals have made early career contributions that identify them as future leaders in their profession or field. They have less than 20 years of professional experience beyond receipt of their bachelor’s degree.

Beto Dantas began his undergraduate education in his hometown of Natal, Brazil, and finished at Oregon State. He got his first job by participating in the Multiple Engineering Cooperative Program (MECOP) as an intern with Merix in Forest Grove, Oregon.While at Merix, Dantas was transferred to the San Francisco Bay Area as an account manager. In 2000, he returned to Oregon as regional sales manager with Hallmark Circuits, and later became vice president of business development for the Americas and Europe with Multek.The next step up the ladder was a move to Multek’s parent company, Flextronics, where Dantas ultimately concluded his time with the company as vice president of innovation and new ventures. He recently joined ConMet.Creating a strong business network has been a critical part of his success. He remains an active champion for MECOP at ConMet, believing that a company is stronger when it engages early career talent.

Lisa Graham is a business leader who speaks science. The technical foundation Graham established at Oregon State gave her the skill set necessary to adapt research and development methodologies to diverse industries, including pharmaceuticals, chemical processing, wafer manufacturing, and agriculture.After working as a senior engineer at Union Carbide, she moved to Bend Research in 2002, eventually becoming a senior vice president. In 2014, she moved to Paradigm as chief scientist. Most recently, Graham founded Alkemy Innovation, a company that will enable rapid data analytics and model development for scientists in numerous industries.She serves as chair of Oregon Tech University’s governing board, a director on the Oregon governor’s STEM Investment Council, and member of the College of Engineering’s School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering’s advisory board.

Carmen Velasco completed her undergraduate work in her home country, Ecuador, before completing a master’s degree at Oregon State. After graduation she worked in the US for two years as a process engineer before moving back home to lead the science team at Bustamante y Bustamante, an intellectual property law firm, and teach as a visiting professor at her alma mater. Velasco earned a second master’s degree in environmental management, returning again to Ecuador to join the National Department of Environmental Health where she was soon promoted to director. As director, she lead the development of national public policy in environmental health, coordinated activities of the department relating to environmental impacts on human health, and oversaw regulation enforcement. In April 2015, Velasco joined the Chemical Engineering Department at Universidad Central del Ecuador as a full-time professor, but recently returned to the United States to work toward a Ph.D.

Beto DantasCouncil of Outstanding Early Career

EngineersB.S. Chemical Engineering, 1997Vice President of Marketing, Strategy and Innovation, ConMet, Vancouver, Washington

Lisa GrahamAcademy of Distinguished Engineers

B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1995Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, 1999Founder and CEO, Alkemy Innovation Inc., Bend, Oregon

Carmen Adela VelascoCouncil of Outstanding Early Career

Engineers

M.S. Chemical Engineering, 2008Ph.D. Candidate, Graduate Assistant, Environmental Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Information excerpted from http://engineering.oregonstate.edu/oregon-stater-awards.

2015 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AWARD RECIPIENTS:PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL COE BREAKFAST, SEPTEMBER 15, 2015LANE PORTH, CHE ‘15 Burgess/Tektronik Award

KRISTIN MARSHALL Graduate Teaching Assistant Award

PHIL HARDING Loyd Carter Award

CHIH-HUNG CHANG Research Award

GREG HERMAN Research Collaboration Award

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OREGON STATE UNIV. 2014-15 AWARD RECIPIENTS:AWARDED AT THE ANNUAL UNIVERSITY DAY EVENT ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2015MOHAMMAD AZIZIAN Outstanding Faculty Research Assistant Award (Oregon State)

CHIH-HUNG CHANG Outstanding Faculty Innovator Award (Oregon State)

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2016 ENGINEERING GRADUATE RESEARCH EXPO AWARD RECIPIENTS:FOR CBEE POSTERS PRESENTED AT THE PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ON MARCH 1

GUSTAVO ALBUQUERQUE: 1st Place - CBEE ($400) Chemical Modulation and Microwave-assisted Synthesis of MOF-74(Ni)

CO-AUTHORS: Majid Ahmadi and Gregory S. Herman

LYNZA HALBERSTADT 2nd Place - CBEE ($100) Hindered Translator and Hindered Rotor Models for Calculating the Entropy of Adsorbed Species Using Density Functional Theory

CO-AUTHORS: Charles T. Campbell and Liney Arnadottir

Read more about this year’s EXPO here: http://engineering.oregonstate.edu/science-fair-steroids

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The School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering (CBEE) in the College of Engineering at Oregon State University is home to BS undergraduate programs in chemical engineering, bioengineering, and environmental engineering, and graduate programs in chemical engineering and environmental engineering leading to MEng, MS and Ph.D. degrees. The school has 27 full-time faculty, and currently enrolls more than 1000 undergraduate and nearly 150 graduate students. The school emphasizes the integration of chemical, biological and environmental engineering principles and practice in a student-centered learning environment to provide work-ready graduates and technical solutions for a sustainable future. Research expenditures exceed 6.5 million dollars per year, and current emphasis areas include thin films and nanostructured materials for renewable energy and electronic device applications, bioprocess engineering and biofuels, biomaterials & therapeutics, transport and remediation of contaminants in the subsurface, interaction of nanomaterials with the environment, microtechnology for chemical and energy processing applications, and engineering education research.

The Diffusion is published quarterly by the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering for distribution to Oregon State alumni who hold degrees in chemical engineering, bioengineering and environmental engineering, and also to industry partners and friends of the school.

The Spring 2016 Diffusion was written and produced by Lynn Ekstedt and Elisha Brackett, CBEE, Oregon State University.

CBEE BY THE NUMBERSSTUDENT SNAPSHOT

(As of Fall 2015)

Graduate Total: 141Chemical Engineering: 97

Environmental Engineering: 44

Undergraduate Total: 1024Bioengineering: 281

Chemical Engineering: 629

Environmental Engineering: 114

FACULTY SNAPSHOTTenured/Tenure-Track Faculty: 27

Research Personnel: 66Endowed Positions and Professorships

(>$250K): 2

FUNDING (As of June 2015)Operational Budget: $6.6M

Research Grants: $6.0MAnnual Private Giving: $118KScholarship Support: $202K

UPCOMING EVENTSCBEE INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING: MAY 20COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE EXPO: MAY 20, 11 am to 4pm, Kelley Eng. Ctr.Senior Design Showcase, Lab Tours. Free & Open to the Public. Industry Reception follows.

CBEE GRADUATION CELEBRATION: JUNE 10CBEE ceremony honoring our graduating seniors and graduate students.

OSU COMMENCEMENT: JUNE 11

UNDERGRADUATE CLASS OF 2015 PLANS - Results from the June 2015 Exit Survey

ABOUT CBEE

Employed49%

Graduate or Professonal 

School16%

Seeking or Applying35%

Undergraduate Plans as of June 2015 Based on 95 survey responses (72% )

27%

27%

15%

15%

8% 8%

Undergraduate Placement by Business SectorBased on 95 survey responses (72% )

CHEMICAL & MATERIALS PROCESSING

PRODUCT & DEVICE MANUFACTURING

SEMICONDUCTOR & ELECTRONICS

MEDICAL DEVICE AND PHARMACEUTICAL

CONSULTING

GOVERNMENT & REGULATORY

DIFFUSION: SPRING 20164

School of Chemical, Biological & Environmental EngineeringOregon State University103 Gleeson HallCorvallis, OR 97331541-737-2491

When Oregon State gymnast Silvia Colussi-Pelaez says “balance is the key to her being successful” in the classroom, athletically and in the community, she’s speaking figuratively and literally.Figuratively, outside the gym she must balance the demands of an intense major (chemical engineering), and her minor (Spanish), with her athletic and community service obligations.Inside the gym, she literally must keep her balance while competing on the beam and the bars, demanding and precise events in which she is one of the Pac-12’s top competitors. She recently tied her career-high of 9.90 on the beam at the Pac-12 championships, helping the Beavers tie for second place.“Being a gymnast all my life has taught me you have to work hard to achieve something, not just in gymnastics but

everything in life,” she said. “Being an athlete has taught me dedication, time management, how to work with other people and other things necessary to succeed in real life.”Her litany of academic and athletic accomplishments illustrate how successfully she’s balanced the demands of a very hectic life.She has a cumulative 3.96 grade-point average, was recently named to the Pacific-12 Conference’s gymnastics All-Academic team as a first-team selection, and has twice earned National Association of Gymnastics Coaches academic All-American honors.She’s made the Honor Roll every term since transferring to OSU from the University of Florida, and she received the 2015 Drucilla Shepard Smith Scholastic Award for academic achievement and community service involvement. She also is the community relations officer for the Student-Athlete Advisory Board (SAAC), locating and staffing community service opportunities for OSU athletes.

She doubles as OSU’s representative on the Pac-12’s Student-Athlete Leadership Team (SALT). It works with the conference administrators to understand student-athlete concerns on a variety of issues. Colussi-Pelaez originally planned to study pre-med or engineering in college. But her love of chemistry and math steered her toward chemical engineering when she decided that pre-med wasn’t a good fit.“Chemical engineering became a natural – I like to problem-solve,” she said. “I want to work and live abroad, probably Europe, and that is where chemical engineering is such a great degree for me.”Gymnastics has enabled Colussi-Pelaez to explore cultures others dream about. She has competed for Spain (she holds dual Canadian/Spanish citizenship) on some of the biggest stages of gymnastics, including the World Championships.

SILVIA COLUSSI-PELAEZ: ENERGY BALANCES AND MASS TRANSPORTPhoto courtesy of David Nishitani

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She successfully performed the first sideways aerial (watch it here) at the 2013 World Championships in Belgium. The move is now known as the “Colussi-Pelaez,” but it is no longer part of her routine.“It’s too risky, so I have eliminated it,” she says. “If I wanted to continue performing at that level it would be a commitment of being in full-time training of about 30 hours per week.”Instead, she’s comfortable being one of the top student-athletes at OSU and in the Pac-12 Conference, and concentrating on her academic pursuits.Gymnastics takes her away from campus several weeks per year. So, having professors and academic advisors who realize student-athletes sometimes miss class time is extremely important.Colussi-Pelaez said chemical, biological and environmental engineering professor Willie “Skip” Rochefort, and her advisor, Kristen Rorrer, have been “very supportive and understanding” of her unique academic circumstances.

Rochefort describes Colussi-Pelaez an exemplary student-athlete, an outstanding student in general, and very nice person.“She is the model for an NCAA student-athlete, as are all of our student-athletes in our college,” he said. “Student-athletes are extremely dedicated to their sports, but also their education.” Colussi-Pelaez credits almost everyone except herself for her success.“My parents have done everything for me,” she said. “They’ve supported me, they’ve loved me, drove me to the gym twice a day, traveled to watch me. Supportive coaches, academic people, my friends, my teammates have been so vitally important.”Story by Brooks Hatch, OSU Athletics, excerpted here for Diffusion. Read the entire article here: http://cbee.oregonstate.edu/node/303. Many thanks also to Steve Fenk and Jason Amberg, OSU Athletics, for their assistance.Link to view the Colussi-Pelaez aerial:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5bmuZNjrIQ

Women’s Soccer Kathryn Baker

Position: #15 DefenderMajor: Bioengineering

Year: JuniorHometown: Vancouver,

B.C.

Track and FieldHelen Ann HaunPosition: Pole Vault

Major: BioengineeringYear: JuniorHometown:

Healdsburg, Calif.

SwimmingJesikah CavanaughPosition: Fly; Mid; FreeMajor: Environmental Engineering, Honors CollegeYear: JuniorHometown: Anchorage, Alaska

SoftballBev MillerPosition: PitcherBats: R Throws: RMajor: BioengineeringYear: JuniorHometown: Portland, Ore.

Meet Four More CBEE Pro-School Athletes!

SPRING 2016 CBEE ATHLETES ROSTER

MEN’S ROWINGBaxter Call - Pre-EnvEAlex Hernandez - Pre-ChemESasha Kosek - Pre-ChemE

WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRYKala Kopecek - Pre-ChemE, Honors College

FOOTBALLRobert Olson - Pre-ChemEZach Standish - Pre-ChemE

GYMNASTICSSilvia Colussi-Pelaez - ChemE

WOMEN’S SOCCERKathryn Baker - BioE

SOFTBALLBev Miller - BioE

WOMEN’S SWIMMINGMaranda Alf-Huynh - Pre-ChemEJesikah Cavanaugh - EnvE, Honors CollegeNoemi Midrez - Pre-ChemE

TRACK AND FIELD

Helen Ann Haun - BioE

School of Chemical, Biological & Environmental EngineeringOregon State University103 Gleeson HallCorvallis, OR 97331-2409541-737-2491

Oregon State University Athletics114 Gill ColiseumCorvallis, Oregon 97331541-737-7373

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