Graduate Program - Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering - Ohio ...

2009 Annual Report

Dear Alumni and Friends of the Department: 

Th e 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. Th ose 

students completing our fi rst 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 fi rst 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. Profi les 

of David Wood and Carlo Scaccia can be found in this 

Annual Report. 

Th e 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. Th is 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 

Koff olt Laboratories by the end of 2014. Th e 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. 

Th e building will be more than 210,000 gross square 

feet with 109,000 assignable square feet for our two 

departments. Th e Koff olt 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 gift s 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 

2 Professor Fan’s Clean Coal Research 

3 Distinguished Alumnus Award 

Recipients 

4 Jeff rey 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 High- 

Flux Desalination Membranes 

10 Lowrie Lectures 

11 2009 Advisory Board Meeting 

Undergraduate Program 

12 Course Enrollment 

13 Cooperative Learning Experiences 

14 2009 Placement Record 

17 Department Graphs 

18 Undergraduate Scholarship 

Information 

20 Ranking 

20 Faculty Productivity 

21 Graduate Degrees Granted 

21 Graduate Student Fellowships 

21 Research Expenditures 

22 Graduate Program 

Seminar Series 

23 Graduate Student Awards 

24 2009 Alumni Donors 

26 Faculty 

37 CBE Faculty and Staff 

W WWilliam 

G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 

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Koff olt Laboratories, 140 West 19th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 

P PPhone: 

614-292-6591, Fax: 614-292-3769, www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu 

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Professor L.S. Fan’s Clean Coal Research is 

Supported by Th e U.S. Department of Energy 

Th e 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’ eff orts toward energy independence 

and greenhouse gas emission reductions. 

Th e syngas chemical looping process Fan and his research group 

developed uses an iron oxide-based chemical looping medium to 

indirectly and fl exibly convert carbonaceous fuels such as coal and 

biomass into hydrogen and/or electricity while at the same time capturing 

and separating the carbon dioxide. Th e process is simpler and more 

effi cient compared to conventional gasifi cation 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 fi nish by early 

2013, with the next scale up to follow immediately. 

University recognizes generosity with fi rst-ever named department. 

Fan’s team will work with the Particulate Solids Research Institute to design and operate a cold 

fl ow 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 Th e 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. Aft er 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. Aft er 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 aft er 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 offi cer 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 Northfi eld, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Th ey have four children, Anita, Bradley, Douglas, 

and Marcia, and fi ve grandchildren. 

F. William Hauschildt 

Aft er 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 refi ning process and catalysis researcher; technology manager at R&D (Process, Catalysis & Environmental Research), 

Operations; operations manager at the Whiting Indiana Refi nery; health safety and environment regional manager (supporting Refi neries, 

Pipeline, Marketing and Chemical plant operations); and refi ning 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 fi eld. Aft er 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 

Refi ning operations and related technology development and support into the BP Amoco refi ning 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 fi ve U.S. patents in refi ning 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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Jeff rey Chalmers’ Tumor Cell Research 

Professor Jeff rey 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. Th eir 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. Th e fi elds 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. 

To get the particles moving, the researchers then place two 

magnetic fi elds around the chip one in the plane of the chip 

and the other perpendicular to it. By fl ipping the direction of 

these fi elds, the researchers can guide tagged cells along the 

zigzagging wire and even make them jump from one wire to 

the next. Th e researchers computerized the magnetic fi eld 

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. Th ey 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-fi ft h 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 

fi gure out what’s diff erent,” 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 specifi c type of cancer or a clinician diagnosing a patient. 

Th e small magnetic fi elds are gentle on specimens; the device works on a fl at surface, an improvement over other methods; and it’s also cost-eff ective with the whole set-up 

costing only about $200. 

Article excerpted from Foxnews.com Photo by Rick Harrison

Stimulus Grant Funds Health 

Testing Research 

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. 

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.Th e 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. Th e progenitor cells would then be grown into cell 

colonies for further analysis. 

Th e 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. Th e 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. 

Th e Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center 

(NSEC) wins a $12.5M 5 year renewal from NSF 

Th e Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) 

for Aff ordable 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 (10/01/2009- 

09/30/2014). Professor James Lee continues as the 

Principal Investigator. 

Th e research vision of CANPBD is to revolutionize 

medical diagnosis and medicine by establishing an 

aff ordable multiscale synthesis and fabrication protocol 

leading to nanofl uidic 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. 

Th e broader impacts of the activities planned for Phase II are to (1) commercialize nanoengineered 

biomedical devices through aff ordable 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 fi elds. 

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. Th is 

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 fi rst 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 oft en come with new technologies.” 

With funding from the National Science Foundation and Environmental Protection Agency, Bakshi is examining the environmental 

burden of carbon nanofi bers, desired in various manufacturing applications for their mechanical strength, thermal and fl ame 

resistance, barrier properties, electrical conductivity and resistance to chemical attack. 

To determine the life cycle energy use of those carbon nanofi bers, he examined each stage of their cycle. First, he and L. James Lee, 

along with doctoral student Vikas Khanna, compared the manufacture of nanofi bers with that of traditional materials on an equal 

mass basis. “Th e best carbon nanofi ber currently requires 300 times more energy than steel for production on a per-kilogram basis. 

Th at’s the killer,” Bakshi says. Since processes using nanomaterials are in nascent stages, he expects the ratio to improve as new 

technologies are developed. 

In addition, energy savings resulting from the use of carbon nanofi bers 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 nanofi bers 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 nanofi bers 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. Th is 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 purifi cation. 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 purifi cation 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. Th ese cells are now being used to discover new drugs for various 

disorders, as well as detect hormone-like pollutants in the environment. Th ese technologies have now been requested by over 100 

laboratories worldwide, and have the potential to signifi cantly 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 Th ird 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 

fi bers. 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 purifi cation 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 offi cer. 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. Aft er 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 Offi cer-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 fl avors industry. Th e 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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Professor Andre Palmer and undergraduate researcher Mark Politz are 

investigating novel strategies for purifying recombinant hemoglobins to meet 

the increasing global demand for an artifi cial blood substitute. 

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 suff ering from blood loss. 

However, the recent emergence of infectious agents such as the H1N1 infl uenza 

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 immunodefi ciency 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 identifi ed infectious agents. In addition there are new 

concerns regarding the safety of blood transfusions following extended durations 

of storage. 

Th e 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. Th erefore, it has been a long-term 

goal of scientists and engineers to develop an effi cacious and safe universal RBC 

substitute for use in transfusion medicine. 

Toward this goal, Palmer is developing a wide range of hemoglobin-based oxygen 

carriers (HBOCs) including: polymerized hemoglobins, vesicle encapsulated 

hemoglobins and recombinant hemoglobins. Th ese 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-fl ux water desalination membranes. In 

this approach, a selected hydrophilic additive is incorporated into the interfacially polymerized thin fi lm to 

increase the hydrophilicity of the membrane. As shown in this fi gure, 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-fl ux reverse osmosis (RO) membrane. Th e hydrophilic additive incorporated in the membrane 

has provided an additional pathway for water transport across the membrane, resulting in a very high fl ux 

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. Th e fl uxes have been signifi cantly higher (about 100%) than those for the state-ofthe-art 

membranes in brackish water and seawater desalination. 

Flux (gfd) 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 

Time (Days) 

100 

Fig. 2. Membrane stability showing 

constant fl ux and salt rejection for a run 

of 30 days in brackish water desalination. 

98 

96 

94 

92 

90 

Salt Rejection (%) 

Amide 

(1540) 

Amide 

(1660) 

Before Stability Test 

30-Day Stability Test 

Fig. 3. No signifi cant changes of the 

membrane from the stability test detected 

by FTIR. 

Th e membrane has exhibited good stability. Figure 2 shows the constant fl ux and salt rejection for a run 

of 30 days. Th ere were no signifi cant changes of the membrane from the stability test detected by Fourier 

transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR) as shown in Figure 3. 

Coating 

Diamine 

Solution 

with 

Hydrophilic 

Moiety 

Surface of 

Microporous 

Support 

Coating of the 

Aqueous 

Solution 

Interfacial 

Polymerization 

with Acid 

Chloride 

High-Flux 

RO 

Membrane 

Fig. 1. Th e schematic of the advanced membrane 

fabrication technique – incorporating hydrophilic 

moiety in interfacial polymerization. 

Th is group has also developed a fouling resistant 

coating based on crosslinked poly(ethylene 

glycol) for the high fl ux membranes. Th e coating 

on the top of the high fl ux 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. Th e membrane will be evaluated by the 

US Navy for the future shipboard desalination. 

Th is work has been sponsored by the Offi ce of 

Naval Research. 

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Lowrie Lectures 

Th e 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 aft er 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 scientifi c papers 

in the fi elds 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. 

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. Th e 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 

Th e catalytic converter on automobiles greatly improved the air quality of Los Angeles. Air separation to oxygen and nitrogen is at the heart of water purifi cation 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”. Th e 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 

Th e 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 Winfi eld. 

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 Koff olt 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 diff erent fi elds 

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 eff ort to increase the number 

of CBE students who graduate with honors distinction. Th e next speaker was 

faculty member Barbara Wyslouzil who presented her research on how aerosols 

aff ect the environment, health and various technologies. 

Th e meeting concluded with a discussion among board members and Stuart 

Cooper regarding undergraduate enrollment pressure, interactions with 

industry and department resources. 

Pictured above: 

First Row: Nancy Dawes and Karen Murphy 

Second Row: Terry Chern and Linda Broadbelt 

Th ird Row: Bob Tatterson, Mike Winfi eld, Drew Weber, and Sunil Satija 

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Undergraduate Program 

Course Enrollment 

Winter 2009 

Students Course Instructor Course Title 

66 200 Dr. Kurt Koelling Chemical Processes & Calculations I 

84 201 Dr. Jessica Winter Chemical Processes & Calculations II 

Dr. Andre Palmer 

0 489 Dr. James Rathman Professional Practice in Industry 

24 508 Dr. Umit Ozkan Th ermodynamics I 

91 509 Dr. Isamu Kusaka Th ermodynamics II 

32 521 John Clay (Adjunct) Transport Phenomena II 

118 522 Dr. S.T. Yang Transport Phenomena III 

Dr. L.S. Fan 

15 713 Dr. Umit Ozkan Fuel Cell Catalysis 

16 733 Dr. Jeff Chalmers Novel Separation Processes 

39 764 Dr. Bhavik Bakshi Process Design 

10 769 Dr. S. Lee Biomedical Nanotechnology 

22 771 Dr. Barbara Wyslouzil Air Pollution 

11 777 Dr. L. James Lee Polymer Nano Enigneering 

72 779 Dr. James Rathman Experimental Design 

6 693 Various Undergraduate Research 

7 H783 Various Undergraduate Honors Research 

(Th esis Track) 

Summer 2009 


118 630 John Corn Unit Operations Lab 

Carlo Scaccia (Adjunct) 

19 755 Bob Johnson (Adjunct) Chemical Process Safety 


0 H783 Various Undergraduate Honors Research (Th esis Track) 

Autumn 2009 


110 200 Dr. Umit Ozkan Chemical Processes & Calculations I 

29 420 

520 

Dr. Andre Palmer Transport Phenomena I 

0 489 Dr. James Rathman Professional Practice in Industry 

110 508 Dr. Michael Paulaitis Th ermodynamics I 

106 521 Dr. Isamu Kusaka 

Dr. Carlo Scaccia (Adjunct) 

Transport Phenomena II 

114 624 Dr. Bhavik Bakshi 

Bob Urban 

Process Dynamics & Controls 

Spring 2009 

Students Course Instructor 

63 201 Dr. Jack Zakin 

121 420/520 Dr. Martin Feinberg 

Course Title 

Chemical Processes & Calculations II 

Transport Phenomena I 60 

77 

10 

31 

13 

760 

761 

765 

773 

Dr. L.S. Fan 

Dr. Jack Zakin 

Dr. Jessica Winter 

Dr. Stuart Cooper 

Engineering Economics & Strategy 

Chemical Process Plants 

Principles of Biochemical Engineering 

Introduction to High Polymer Engineering 

Dr. Isamu Kusaka 

84 790 Dr. James Rathman Colloids & Surfaces 

0 489 Dr. James Rathman Professional Practice in Industry 50 


23 

115 

122 

24 

509 

523 

610 

734 

Dr. Michael Paulaitis 

Dr. John Clay (Adjunct) 

Dr. Umit Ozkan 

Dr. James Rathman 

Th ermodynamics II 

Unit Operations 

Kinetics 

Molecular Informatics 

40 

30 



110 750 Dr. Stuart Cooper Profession of Chemical & Biomolecular 

Engineering 

20 

83 

43 

762 

764 

John Corn 

Dr. Jeff rey Chalmers 

Process Development 

Process Design 

10 

24 

10 

8 

772 

774 

775 

Dr. Bhavik Bakshi 

Dr. W.S. Winston Ho 

Dr. Kurt Koelling 

Principles of Sustainable Energy 

Polymer Membranes 0 

‘05 

Rheology of Fluids 

‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 


BS Degrees Awarded 



Minorities 

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Batelle Memorial Institute: Th omas Grimme, Jessica Rittner 

Bigler LP: Yuki Uchida 

BioLOC LLC: Kyle KKyle Dy 

BP: Joseph Lollini, Brittany Niles, s, Christopher Ch Christopher er Th Thuurber rber 

Cargill: Cargil gil gill: l: l Nariman Nariman 

Alkhat Alkhatib, hat atib ib ib, Shilp Sh Shilp Antani, Cory y Johnston 

Camp Dresser Dres re res resser & McK MMcKee ee (CDM): Samantha Spano 

Chemical l Abstracts Abs A tracts Service: Dylan Silbiger 

Cornerstone n Research Group: Melissa Grigger, John Larison, 

Mary-Margaret Mary-Margare a t Williamson 

Cummins Engine Co. Inc.: Chelsea Liao 

Delta Airlines: Michael Birkmeyer 

Diamond Innovations: Anand Ramanathan, Whitney Wutzler 

DNV (formerly CC Technologies): Stephen Necamp 

Dow Chemical: Adam Kowalski, Barrett Richter, Kevin Sutton, 

David Tarai 

Emerson Emerson Climate Technologies: Wai-Meng Lei 

Entrotech: Ent E rotech: William Brigode, Steven Ottobre, David Sesher, Emily Smith Smi Sm Smi mi mith th 

Equity Eq Equ Eq ity Engineering Group Inc.: David Lovano 

ExxonMobil: Ex Exx xx xxonMobil: Allison Payne, Steve Schwab 

Genentech, Ge Genent e ech, Inc.: Stephen Rosegger 

General Gen Gener er era er l Electric Corp.: Ryan Bradstreet, Bradstreet, Robert Comer, Annemarie Fox, 

Anita Ani Anita ta Mal MMallik, lik, Jessica Tuft s, Laurin Turowski 

Glatfelter: Gla Glatfe tfelte lte ter: Adam Brandt, Caleb Kingsley, Trevor Morlan 

Honda: Hon Honda: da: Mark Ma M rk Foster, Trenton Mueller, Nathan Reed, Timothy Timothy Regan, 

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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. Th e percentages provided here 

are based on senior exit surveys at the time of graduation. 

Th irty-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 defi ned 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. Th irty-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. Th irteen 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. Th ere 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 off ered through ECS by visiting http://career.eng.ohio-state.edu. 

2009 B.S. Graduates: 

Autumn 2008 (December 2008) 

Matthew Ehrman Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering; 

Hired by Procter & Gamble, Ohio 

Paul Gardner Seeking Employment 

Bryan Gebhart Seeking Employment 

Jeff rey MacLean Seeking Employment 

Laura Werner Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas 

Winter 2009 (March 2009) 

Antonius Gondo Returned to Homeland 

Conor Hawkins No information provided 

Christopher Potts Pursuing J.D., Seton Hall University 

Zachary Smith Seeking Employment 

Carol Udoh Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering; 

Hired by General Mills, Ohio 

Spring 2009 (June 2009) 

Edward Aprahamian Hired by Capital One, Virginia 

Joseph Braucher Hired by Labs, Pennsylvania 

Craig Buckley Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With Distinction 

in Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing 

Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Stanford University 

Kyle Dy Seeking Employment 

Serra Elliott Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction 

Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara 

Laura Fisher Seeking Employment 

Mark Foster Seeking Employment 

Jaykumar Grandhi Further Education, not specifi ed

John Groman Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by RoviSys Co., Ohio 

Joseph Groszek Seeking Employment 

Tad Grubbs Graduated Magna Cum Laude; 

Hired by Procter & Gamble, Ohio 

Kimberly Hoang Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With Honors in 

Engineering; Pursuing M.D., Th e Ohio State University 

Alexander Hodge Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Auburn University 

Jeff rey Hook Hired by James Hardie Building Products, California 

Donna Jeff ers Hired by Entrotech, California 

Cory Johnston Hired by Cargill, Georgia 

Brandon Jonas Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas 

James Knight Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction in 

Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D. 

in Chemical Engineering, University of Texas, Austin 

Jennifer Kovach Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Accenture, Ohio 

Arthur Lee Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Owens-Illinois (O-I), Ohio 

Samuel Lentz Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction in 

Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Hired by Dow 

Corning Corp, Kentucky 

Christopher Lewe Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by Marathon Oil 

Jonathan Lin Seeking Employment 

Cathryn Marshall Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Pursuing Ph.D in Chemical 

Engineering, University of Wisconsin 

Crystal Martin Seeking Employment 

Samantha Moermond Hired by Scotts Co., Ohio 

Samuel Moore Hired Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio 

Zachary Murnane Hired by Camp, Dresser, and McKee, Florida 

Halle Murray Seeking Employment 

Joshua Nye Seeking Employment 

Amanda Phoebe Seeking Employment 

Anand Ramanathan Hired by Arcelor Mittal, Minnesota 

Jordan Redman Seeking Employment 

Shanon Rogers Seeking Employment 

Eric Sacia Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With Distinction in 

Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D. 

in Chemical Engineering, Univeristy of California, Berkeley 

Brian Setzler Graduated Cum Laude; Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical 

Engineering, Georgia Tech University 

Leslie Shumaker Graduated Magna Cum Laude; Hired by Procter & Gamble, 

Ohio 

Jeanne Skebo Hired by Scotts Co., Ohio 

Nicholas Smith Seeking Employment 

Brittany Stechschulte Hired by Cargill, Ohio 

John Titone Graduated Magna Cum Laude, With Distinction in 

Engineering, With Honors in Engineering; Hired by 

Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory 

Andrew Vail Hired by Schlumberger, Arkansas 

Kathleen Vermeersch Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering 

Pursuing M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Georgia 

Tech University 

Yao Wang Seeking employment 

David Webster Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Auburn 

University 

Steinn Welch Seeking employment 

James Westerfi eld Seeking employment 

Henry White Graduated Cum Laude; Pursuing M.D., not specifi ed 

Patrick Wilson Graduated Cum Laude; Hired by Battelle Memorial 

Institute, Ohio 

Th omas Yeh 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 Graduated Cum Laude, With Honors in Engineering; 

Hired by General Mills, Ohio 

Th omas Czechowski Seeking Employment 

Brett Grygo Hired by Sunoco, Inc., Ohio 

Ahmed Hassan Seeking Employment 

Mark Hilkert Further Education, not specifi ed 

Matthew Kanitz Seeking Employment 

Jennifer Kirian Graduated Cum Laude; Pursuing M.B.A., 

Bowling Green State University 

Michelle Koegler Graduated Magna Cum Laude; 

Seeking Employment 

Daniel Lamone Pursuing M.S. in Chemical 

Engineering, Th e Ohio State University 

Karl LaPointe Graduated Cum Laude; 

Hired by Dow Corning Corp, Michigan 

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2009 B.S. Graduates Continued 

John Meister Hired by Univenture, Ohio 

Jeremy Mink Graduated Magna Cum Laude; 


Eric Neidig Seeking Employment 

Alana Pevets Hired by Procter & Gamble, Ohio 

Nathan Reed Seeking Employment 

Katie Reinaker Graduated Cum Laude; 

Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas 

Ellis Robinson Graduated Magna Cum Laude, 

With Honors in Engineering; 

Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical 

Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 

Dennis Stoltz Seeking Employment 

Leeza Th ompson Graduated Magna Cum Laude; 

Hired by Dow Chemical, Michigan 

Man Tran Seeking Employment 

Lindsay Volpenhein Graduated Magna Cum Laude, 

With Honors in Engineering; 

Hired by Dow Chemical, Texas 

Blake Washington Hired by General Mills, Illinois 

Jean Wheasler Graduated Summa Cum Laude, With 

Distinction in Engineering, With Honors 

in Engineering; Pursuing Ph.D. in Chemical 

Engineering, University of Wisconsin 

Katherine Wilson Graduated Cum Laude; 

Hired by Exxon Mobil, Texas 

Cameron Wohleber Hired by Owens-Illinois, Ohio 

Autumn 2009 (December 2009) 

Abdullahi Ali Pursuing M.S. in Chemical 

Engineering, Th e Ohio State 

University 

Ryan Bradstreet Seeking Employment 

Michael Heller Graduated Magna Cum Laude; 


Mohamed Keyse Seeking Employment 

James Mekker Seeking Employment 

Joseph Taris Seeking Employment 

Undergraduate student, Aaron Nimrick, 

experiments with DNA extraction.

700 

600 

500 

400 

300 

200 

100 

0 

190 

180 

170 

160 

150 

140 

130 

120 

110 

100 

90 

80 

70 

60 

50 

40 

30 

20 

10 

0 

Pre-Majors 

Majors 

Total 

Undergraduate Enrollment 

(number of students) 

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 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 

86 

21 

100 

29 

25 

9 6 9 

125 

156 

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 

34 

16 

176 

40 

18 

75 

70 

65 

60 

55 

50 

45 

40 

35 

30 

25 

20 

15 

10 

5 

Number of B.S. Degrees Per Year 

Shows Total Students, Number Granted to Women and Number Granted to Ethnic Minorities 

700 

600 

500 

400 

300 

200 

100 

0 

2005 

336 

94 

23 

2006 

2007 

2008 

Female and Ethnic Minority Trends in 

Total Department Enrollment 

428 

112 

486 

120 

591 

2009 

Chem. E Total 

Women 

Ethnic Min 

665 

172 163 

38 42 52 51 

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 

Total Students 

Women 

Ethnic Min 

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2009-2010 Undergraduate 

Scholarship Information 

A total of 153 students were awarded undergraduate 

scholarships in the Chemical & Biomolecular program. 

Th e vast majority of those students were current majors, 

although a small amount went to recruit high ability fi rst 

year students as well. A total of $109,600 was awarded 

to students heading into the 2009-2010 school year. Th is 

year the department awarded more scholarships but gave 

out less money than the previous year. Th is 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. 

Trends in data from fi nancial aid show that the number 

and amount of both student and parent loans have been 

increasing. Both Ohio State tuition and University fi nancial 

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 specifi es 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 Company- 

Dow Outstanding Junior Award 

Chris Th urber 

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 

Th e 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 

Th e Michael D. Winfi eld Scholarship 

Elise Ferguson 

Paul Bates Scholarship 

Steven Adams Ibrahim Bamba 

David Diaz-Rivera Justin Mason 

Japheth Pritchett Darian Richardson 

Alexander Sarmiento 

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 Stauff er 

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 Th addaus Huber 

Richard McConnell Allison Payne 

Jason Porter Kevin Sutton 

Christopher Th urber Jessica Tuft s 

Harold W. Almen Scholarship 

Dimitry Burdjalov Michael Frangiamore 

Th omas Grimme Jean Johnson 

Katherine Kinstedt Daniel Kromer 

Rebecca Murphy Timothy Regan 

Brian Setzler Mandy Still 

Matt Tackett Robert Waters

Th e 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 

Th e 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 Sing Keat Chew 

Richard Ciccotti Anthony Constantino Daniel Garrison 

Justin Goode Arman Haghighi Michael Heller 

Robert Hoelzle Jacob Huggins Matthew Isabel 

Douglas Knapke Michelle Koegler Andrew Kusanke 

David Lang Karl Lapointe John Larison 

Wai Meng Lei Joseph Lollini Brenna McNamee 

James Mekker Sara Mihaloew Jeremy Mink 

Benjamin Pierson Justin Reed Garrett Ringler 

Jessica Rittner Parth Shah Evan Smith 

Justin Spitzer David Tarai Laurin Turowski 

Lindsay Volpenhein Qi Wang Jean Wheasler 

Katherine Wilson Whitney Wutzler 

William H. Whirl Scholarship 

Melissa Grigger 

2009 Graduating Class 

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Graduate Program 

Ranking 

Th e 2010 U.S. News and World Report rankings of engineering 

graduate programs placed the Lowrie Department of Chemical and 

Biomolecular Engineering at #27. Th e 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 fi ndings 

in the table are good news for the Department. 

Faculty Productivity 

Th e 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 signifi cant that in 2005 

and 2006, we were fi ft h in the nation in the graduation of chemical 

engineering doctoral students. Th is is noteworthy as the leading 

departments in this category typically have many more faculty members 

than Ohio State. 

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 

Ohio State College of Engineering 26 26 26 29 27 

Engineering Specialties 

Aerospace 20 19 21 21 22 

Biomedical - - - - - 

Chemical 32 32 26 27 27 

Civil 34 39 36 38 36 

Computer Engineering 21 21 23 29 20 

Electrical 24 19 26 26 20 

Environmental/Env. Health nr 37 44 39 39 39 

Industrial/Manufacturing 18 17 19 18 21 

Materials 17 14 14 14 16 

Mechanical 23 20 21 20 22 

Nuclear 15 14 Nr Nr 13 

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 

Total Faculty 15 17 17 17 18 

Publications 76 73 89 78 91 

Publications per Faculty 5.06 4.29 5.23 4.58 5.06 

Books or Book Chapters 9 18 11 8 14 

Patents 5 9 1 2 3 

Total Grad Students 83 77 96 95 95 

Grad Students/Faculty 5.53 4.53 5.65 5.58 5.58 

Ph.D. Degrees Granted 19 21 11 11 15 

Ph.D. Degrees/Faculty 1.27 1.24 0.65 0.65 0.88 

Research Expenditures* 5,121,000 9,032,000 12,249,000 12,462,000 13,332,000 

Research Exp/Faculty 341,400 531,290 720,530 733,060 740, 670 

(Data from the Ohio State University Foundation (fi scal year))

Graduate Degrees Granted 

Winter Quarter 2009 

Master of Science Advisors 

Zhengzheng Fei L. James Lee 

Hua Song Umit Ozkan 

David Winkel, Jr (non-thesis) Barbara Wyslouzil 

Doctor of Philosophy Advisor 

Wu Ge Jacques Zakin 

Fangxing Li Liang-Shih Fan 

Juan Sanz-Valero Shang-Tian Yang 

Rustin Shenkman Jeff rey Chalmers 

Yuan Wen Shang-Tian Yang 

An Zhang Shang-Tian Yang 

Spring Quarter 2009 

Master of Science Advisor 

Megan Balog Michael Paulaitis 

Patrick Bennett Shang-Tian Yang 

Claudia Berdugo Jeff rey Chalmers 

Elizabeth Daly Bhavik Bakshi 

Ching-Suei Hsu Shang-Tian Yang 

Xiaoxia Jin Jeff rey Chalmers 

Vikas Khanna Bhavik Bakshi 

Ning Liu Shang-Tian Yang 

Manish Talreja Isamu Kusaka 

JiaPeng Xu L. James Lee 

Chaofang Yue Michael Paulaitis 


Jeff rey Ellis David Tomasko 

Hua Song Umit Ozkan 

Yun Wu Barbara Wyslouzil 

Summer Quarter 2009 


Brian Fraley Shang-Tian Yang 

Hyung Kim Liang-Shih Fan 

Qussai Marashdeh Jacques Zakin 


Vikas Khanna Bhavik Bakshi 

Lawrence Zimmerman L. James Lee 

Autumn Quarter 2009 


Meimei Liu Umit Ozkan 


Michael Boehm Kurt Koelling 

Zhengzheng Fei L. James Lee 

Christopher Kagarise Kurt Koelling 

Zhao Yu Liang-Shih Fan 

Graduate Student Fellowships 

University Fellowships 

Uddyalok Banerjee 

Niranjani Deshpande 

Jorge Fontes 

Daniel Knight 

Erin Landers 

Kalpesh Mahajan 

Hrishikesh Munj 

Distinguished University Fellowship 

Yinming Du 

Research Expenditures 

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 eff orts of 17 faculty. On a per-capita 

basis, expenditures averaged over $700k per year 

during fi scal 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. 

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$8 

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 

Total Expenditures 

Indirect Cost 

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Graduate Program Seminar Series 

Winter 2009 

01/22 William J. Mitsch, Professor of Environment and 

Natural Resources, Director, Wilma H. Schiermeier 

Olentangy River Wetland Research Park, Th e Ohio 

State University, “Ecological Engineering: Saving the 

Planet with a Sustainable Engineering” 

02/05 Michael Deem, John W. Cox Professor of 

Bioengineering, Professor of Physics & Astronomy, 

Rice University, “Vaccine Design for Infl uenza and 

Dengue Fever” 

02/12 Glenn Lipscomb, Professor and Chair, Chemical 

and Environmental Engineering, Th e University of 

Toledo, “Membrane Module Design” 

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” 

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: 

Diff erent Ways to Capture O2 and Detoxify NO” 

Spring 2009 

4/2 Doug Goetz, Professor, Department of Chemical 

and Biomolecular Engineering, Ohio University, 

“Engineering Novel Vascular-Based Th erapeutics 

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 Aft er Transplantation” 

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 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” 

5/8 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” 

6/4 Timothy Gutowski, Professor, Department of 

Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology, “Th ermodynamics, Sustainability and 

Manufacturing” 

Summer 2009 

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”

10/15 Jayajit Das, Assistant Professor, Battelle Center for 

Mathematical Medicine, Th e 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 

fl uctuations” 

10/22 Mariah S. Hahn, Assistant Professor, Department 

of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 

“Programming Mesenchymal Stem Cell Lineage 

Progression” 

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 Th in 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, Th e 

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” 

Graduate Student Awards 

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. 

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. 

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. Th e 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 Th e Ohio State 

University Graduate School. 

Shreyas Rao: Th ird Place in the Edward F. Hayes 

Graduate Research Forum Poster Presentation at 

Th e 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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2009 Alumni Donors 

1936 - Joseph G. Mravec 

1939 - Ira Joseph Kail 

1940 - Charles Boardman III 

1941 - Th omas F. Lavery, David 

Th omas, Earl Godfrey Anderson 

1942 - Donald S. Arnold, Randal E. 

Bailey 

1943 - Halvor S. Christianson, Dalton 

F. Drake, James R. Randall, Roy E. 

Schneider, Carlyle E. Shoemaker, James 

C Wynd 

1944 - Wallace L. Bostwick, Clarence A. 

Haverly, Jr., Edward W. Powell 

1947 - William K. Fell, Th urman L. 

Graves, Lewis C. Hullinger, Herbert 

G. Krane, J. Bruce Martin, Bryce H. 

McMullen, Donald F. Stauff er 

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 

1950 - Walter E. Donham, Walter T. 

George, Verne R. Rinehart, Jean Maurer 

Scharenberg, Richard L. Scott, Ralph E. 

Sieber, Robert E. Th ompson 

1951 - Charles L. Dornbusch, Richard 

N. Eilerman, John R. Parkinson, 

Norbert F. Reinert, David A. Strang, 

Robert B. Weiser 

1952 - James F. Froning, Donald E. 

Haupt, C. Richard Heil, Charles J. 

Schmitz 

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 

1954 - Gilbert E. Raines 

1955 - Wendell B. Hammond, Jr., 

1956 - Robert A. Cody, William David 

Coe, Herbert H. Fanning 

1957 - Walter R. Andrews, Jr., Walter A. 

Flack, Jon D. Helms, Sung Ho Hong 

1958 - Charles N. Carpenter, John J. 

Connelly, James R. Facer, Werner S. 

Lichtenstein, Th omas R. Loy, Valdis E. 

Petritis, Richard M. Smith, James W. 

Stark, Lawrence R. Steele 

1959 - Lee W. Addie, James O. Albery, 

Ronald M. Kovach, Darryl J. Von 

Lehmden, Gerald A. Wilcox 

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 

1961 - Paul R. Bigley, Richard B. 

Cooper, Ronald L. Follmer, Jack Arnold 

Hammond, Ronald D. Harris, John N. 

Rapach, Larry E. Woodworth 

1962 - David E. Bidstrup, Kenneth J. 

Fulk, Richard L. Hoff man, Dean Snider, 

Michael J. Sorocak, Michael D. Winfi eld 

1963 - Nelson W. Barnhill, Gary L. 

Beeler, Robert P. Kasper, Fred A. 

Shaff stall, Kay Logan Snider 

1964 - Michael B. Cutlip, William R. 

Ferris, Alan K. Kochsiek, James B. Sapp 

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, Th omas 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, Geoff rey 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 

Laff erty Hendricks, William E. 

Pritchard, Armen Tergevorkian, 

Stephen Zakanycz 

1972 - John A. Th omas

1973 - John C. Bost, Th omas 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 

1976 - James M. Delabar 

1977 - Robert J. Arnold, Robert L. 

Collins, Douglas J. Hallenburg 

1978 - Douglas T. Brown, Daniel M. 

Coombs, Rad V. Scott III, Elizabeth 

Ann Stuber, Neil P. Stuber, Brian K. 

Weider, Th omas E. Winkler 

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, Th omas D. Burns, 

Samuel D. Fink, Carolyn Marie Lin, 

Keith R. Nowak 

1984 - Wendell E. Harkins, Gregory 

M. Masica, George W. Miller, Roger W. 

Nelson, Patrick A. Renner 

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, Th aruvai S 

Ramesh, Dave Vance, Brian A. Yanok 

1987 - Jeff rey D. Adams, Karen S. 

Johnson, D. Brian Noe 

1988 - Amy Schmidt Doty, Craig L. 

Shoemaker, Annette Brough Ventura 

1989 - Stuart F. Doty, Amy Reynolds 

Pressly 

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 

2001 - Th omas J. Jaynes, Eric S. Jensen 

2002 - Jun Luo, Nihar Arvind Patel 

2004 - Angela N.D. Carlson, Jeff rey L. 

Ellis, Lori Ann Engelhardt, Erica Nicole 

Jones, Marisa A. LaPalomento, 

2005 - Michael G. Klidas 

2008 - Jeff rey 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., Jeff rey 

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 Hoff man, 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 

Shaff stall, Elizabeth Hurlbut Shoemaker, 

Muriel Edwards Stauff er, Donna 

Schrock Steele, Louise Mericle Stelzer, 

Th omas Leonard Sweeney, Sandra Jean 

Telljohann, David L. Tomasko, Betty 

French Unkel, Shu-Huan Weng, Marlene 

Hoy Wilcox, Susan Herbert Williams, 

Arlene Romanowski Winfi eld, 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, 

“Th ermodynamic 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 

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 Nanofi ber 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, “Th ermodynamic 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 - Th e Case of Transportation 

Fuels, (co-PIs Profs. P. K. Goel, Statistics; T. Haab, Ag. 

Env. Dev. Economics, Michele Morone, Ohio University), 

National Science Foundation 


Matching funds from OSU Transportation Research Endowment 

Program (TREP) 


Supplementary funds from NSF Research Experience for 

Undergraduate Program. 


Evaluating the Impacts of Nanomanufacturing via Th ermodynamic 

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 


Comparative Study of Th ermodynamics 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. Th e 

Validation of Numerical Simulation 

Methods for Complex Process Flows. 

Jeff rey Chalmers 

Professor, Ph.D., Cornell U., 1988. 

Bioengineering, Biochemical Engineering, 

Biomedical Engineering, mixing. 


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. 


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. “Th e use of 

Electrohydrodynamic Spraying to Disperse Hydrophobic 

Compounds in Aqueous Media.” Aerosol Science. 43(9):902- 

910. 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 

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 

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 

Shenkman, RM, Godoy-Silva, G., Papas, K., Chalmers, J.J. 

“Eff ect 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 Eff ect of Chronic Hydrodynamic Stresses on Cultures of 

Suspended CHO-6E6 Cells.” Biotechnology and 

Bioengineering. 102(4):1119-1130. 2009. PMID: 18958864 


$153,535 Jeff rey Chalmers 2008-2010 

(P.I. of subcontract) Cell Selection by magnetic fl ow; NIH, 

subcontract from CCF 


(P.I. of subcontract) CCLI: Educational materials to enhance 

chemical engineering curricula with applications in biological 

engineering; NSF Div Undergraduate Education (Awarded to 

San Jose State University) 


(P.I. of subcontract) QMS technology to deplete t cell alloreactivity; 

NIH, (Awarded to U. of Indiana) 


Characterization of Millipore disposable bioreactor; 

Millipore Corporation 

$3,500,000 Jeff rey Chalmers 2006-2010 

Advanced biomedical devices for disease diagnosis and 

therapy; Ohio Department of Development 

$2,350,349 Jeff rey Chalmers (Investigator) 2004-2009 

OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center Support Grant; NCI 

$xx,xxx,xxx Jeff rey Chalmers (Co- Investigator) 2008-2012 

Center for aff ordable nanoengineering of polymer biomedical 

devices (CANPBD); NSF Div Engineering Education & 

Centers 

$676,675 Jeff rey Chalmers (Senior Personnel) 2009-2010 

(ARRA) CellTrap: A novel solid phase platform for analysis of 

stem/progenitor cells; National Institute of Aging 

$313,433 Jeff rey Chalmers (Co P.I.) 2009-2012 

Fluorescent-magnetic nanomaniputators for cytoskeletal 

mechanical investigations; National Science Foundation 


(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. 


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, 1131- 

1139, 2009 


$46,375 Stuart L. Cooper 2009-2014 

Center for Aff ordable 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, Th e 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). 


Fei Wang, Q. Marashdeh, R. Williams and L.S. Fan, 

“Electrical Capacitance, Electrical Resistance, and Positron 

Emission Tomography Techniques and Th eir Applications 

in Multi-Phase Flow Systems” Advances in Chemical 


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 Gasifi cation Process: Oxygen 

Carrier Particle Selection and Performance,” Energy and Fuel, 

23(8): 4182-4189, 2009. 

Yu, Z., Fan, L.S., “An interaction potential based lattice 

Boltzmann method with adaptive mesh refi nement (AMR) 

for two-phase fl ow 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. 


$3,000,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2009-2011 

Coal Direct Chemical Looping Retrofi t 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 Offi ce. 

$159,996 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2010 

Chemical looping combustion, Ohio Coal Development 

Offi ce. 

$81,222 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2009 

Phase 1 SCL process - fabricated equipment, Ohio Coal 

Development Offi ce. 

$238,339 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2011 

Development and implementation of 3-D, high speed 

capacitance tomography for imaging large-scale, cold-fl ow 

circulating fl uidized bed, Department of Energy. 

$100,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2008-2009 

Development of 3-D electrical capacitance volume tomography 

(3-D ECVT), Department of Energy. 

$211,870 Fan, Liang-Shih, Zakin, Jacques. 2007-2009 

Enhanced coal to liquid technology using calcium looping 

process, Ohio Coal Development Offi ce. 

$160,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2007-2009 

Integrated fuel cell with chemical looping, Ohio Coal 

Development Offi ce. 

$150,000 Fan, Liang-Shih 2007-2009 

Carbon negative looping process impact on jet fuel 

Characteristics, U.S. Air Force. 

$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 


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) 


$499,934 Feinberg, Martin 2004-2010 

Quantitative Systems Biology: Understanding Bistability 

in Complex Enzyme -Driven Reaction Networks, National 

Science Foundation. 

$381,826 Feinberg, Martin 2008-2013 

Collaborative Research: Multistability in Biological Networks, 

National Institutes of Health - General Medical Sciences 

W.S. Winston Ho 

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. 


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 

Purifi cation and Proton Transport for Fuel Cells”, 5th China- 

US 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. 


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.” Th e National Academies Press, Washington, 2009. 


Bai, He, and Ho, W.S. Winston, “New Carbon Dioxide- 

Selective Membranes Based on Sulfonated Polybenzimidazole 

(SPBI) Copolymer Matrix for Fuel Cell Applications,” 

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 48 (5), 2344- 

2354, 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 Th ermally- 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,” Chinese- 

American 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. 


$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 

Offi ce of Naval Research, Advanced Membranes for 

Reformate Hydrogen Sulfi de Clean-up, OSURF Project No. 

60014815. 

$639,696 Ho, W.S. Winston 2008-2011 

Offi ce 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, 


$41,915 Ho, W.S. Winston 2009-2010 

Offi ce of Naval Research /DJW Technology, LLC, Advanced 

Hydrogen Reformate Stream Purifi er for Fuel Cell 

Applications, OSURF Project No. 60022589. 

$48,874 Ho, W.S. Winston 2007-2010 

Ohio State University Residual Funds, Polymer Membranes, 


$233,268 Ho, W.S. Winston 2004-2010 

National Science Foundation, Center for Aff ordable 

Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices, NSEC 

Project sponsoring 1 Ph.D. Student, with L. James Lee (PI), 


Kurt Koelling 

Professor, Ph.D., Princeton University 

1993. Polymer Rheology and Processing, 

Polymer Nanocomposites, Multi-phase 

fl ows, Micro/Nanofl uidics. 


S. Shukla and K. W. Koelling, “Classical 

Nucleation Th eory 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; Th e 20th 

anniversary of the Journal of Supercritical Fluids–A special 

issue on future directions in supercritical fl uid science and 

technology, 2009, Volume 47, Issue 3 , pp. 493-499 

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) 


$400,000 Tomasko, David, Koelling, Kurt, Kusaka, I., 

Lee, L.J. 2006-2009; Scalable Nanomanufacturing of High 

Performance Nanocomposite Foams, National Science 

Foundation. 

$365,000 Koelling, Kurt, Lee, L.J., 2005-2009 

Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) 

for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering (CAPCE), 


$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 Th ermoplastics, I/UCRC Center 

for Advanced Polymer and Composite Engineering 

$50,000 Koelling, Kurt 2007-2010 

Extensional fl ow induced orientation and rheology of 

polymer/carbon nanotube composites, Toray Industries 

$100,000 Koelling, Kurt, Tomasko, David 2007-2009 

Nanocomposite Foams, Nanomaterial Innovation Ltd. 

$131,179 Koelling, Kurt, Lee, L.J., Yang, S.T. 2006-2009 

STTR Phase II: Microfl uidic cd biochips for enzyme-linked 

immunosorbent assays, National Science Foundation 

$118,348 Koelling, Kurt 2008-2010 

Properties of Carbon Nanotube Fibers and Bucky Papers, 

Battelle Memorial Institute 

Isamu Kusaka 

Kusaka, Isamu, Associate Professor, 

Ph.D., Caltech 1998. Statistical mechanics, 

Th ermodynamics, Nucleation 


Kusaka, Isamu, “Accelerating simulation 

of metastable decay,” Journal of Chemical 

Physics, 131, 034112, 2009. 

Talreja, Manish, Kusaka, Isamu, Tomasko, David L., “Density 

functional approach for modeling CO2 pessurized polymer 

thin fi lms in equilibrium”, Journal of Chemical Physics, 130, 

084902, 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. 


$400,000 Tomasko, David, Koelling, Kurt, Kusaka, I., 

Lee, L.J. 2006-2009; Scalable Nanomanufacturing of High 

Performance Nanocomposite Foams, National Science 

Foundation. 

L.James Lee 

Professor, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 

1979. Polymer and Composite 

Engineering, Nanobiotechnology, 

BioMEMS, Microfl uidics, BioMEMS/ 

NEMS. 


B. Yu, R.J. Lee and L.J. Lee, “Microfl uidic Methods for 

Production of Liposomes”, Methods in Enzymology/ Vol. 465 – 

Liposomes, Part G, Ch. 7, Elsevier Inc. 2009. 


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). 

Y. Yuan, H. He, and L.J. Lee, “Protein A-based 

Immobilization of Antibody onto A Polymeric Microfl uidic 

Device for Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay”, 

Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 102(3), 891-901 (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). 

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). 

H. He, Y. Yuan, W. Wang, N-R Chiou and L.J. Lee, “Design 

and Testing of a Microfl uidic Biochip for Cytokine Enzyme- 

Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)”, Biomicrofl uidics, 

3, 022401 (2009). April 15, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of 

Biological Physics Research 

B. Yu, X. Zhao, L.J. Lee and R.J. Lee, “Targeted Delivery 

Systems for Oligonucleotide Th erapeutics”, American 

Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Journal, 11(1), 195- 

203 (2009). 

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/Scaff old Th ree-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 Th roughput 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 

Microfl uidic 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), 1371- 

1379 (2009). 

C. Yen, H. He, W. Ho, and L.J. Lee, “ Synthesis and Characterization 

of Nanoporous Polycaprolactone Membranes via 

Th ermally- 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 Microfl uidic 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, “Eff ect of Carbon 

Nanofi bers on Mold Filling in a Vacuum Assisted Resin 

Transfer Molding System”, J. Composite Materials, 43 (6), 611- 

620 (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 fi led on 

December 31, 2004, US Patent 7,605,188, October 20 (2009). 


$12,500,000 Lee, L. James (PI) 2009-2014 

Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center for Aff ordable 

Nanoengineering of Polymer Biomedical Devices- Phase II, 


$22,489,845 Lee, L. James (PI) 2005-2009 

Center for Multifunctional Polymer Nanomaterials and 

Devices, Ohio Department of Development Th ird Frontier 

Program 

$360,000 Lee, L. James (co-PI) 2006-2009 

Evaluating the Impacts of Nanomanufacturing via 

Th ermodynamic 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 Th ird 

Frontier Program 

$387,516 Lee, L. James (PI) 2007-2009 

Novel Micro/Nanofl uidic Electroporation Devices for DNA 

and Oligonucleotide Delivery, National Institute of Health 

(NIBIB) 

$387,516 Lee, L. James (co-PI) 2007-2009 

Novel Microfl uidic 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 


Ozkan, U.S., Design of Heterogeneous 

Catalysts: New Approaches based on 

Synthesis, Characterization and Modeling, 

Wiley-VCH, 2009. 


Zhang, L. Wang, X., Tan, B., Ozkan, U.S., “Eff ect of 

Preparation Method on Structural Characteristics and 

Propane Steam Reforming Performance of Ni/Al2O3 

Catalysts,” J. Mol. Catal. 297, 26-34 (2009). 

Song, H., Ozkan, U.S., “Ethanol Steam Reforming over 

Co-based Catalysts: Role of Oxygen Mobility ” Journal of 

Catalysis, 261 66-74 (2009). 

Zhang, L., Millet, J-M.M., Ozkan, U.S., “Eff ect of Cu loading 

on the catalytic performance of Fe-Al-Cu for water-gas shift 

reaction” Applied Catalysis A, 357, 166-72 (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). 

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) 

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). 

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. 

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. and Ozkan, U.S., “Th e 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. 

Patents 

Ozkan, U.S.; Holmgreen, Erik M.; Yung, Matthew M., “Multistage 

Catalyst Systems.” U.S. Patent 7,488,462, February 2009. 


$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 

$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 Offi ce 

$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 

Offi ce 

$162,057 Ozkan, U.S. 2009-2011 

Internal Steam Reforming of Natural Gas for SOFC, Rolls- 

Royce/Ohio Department of Development 

Andre Palmer Associate Professor, Ph.D., Th e Johns 

Hopkins University, 1998. Bioengineering 

& Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers 


A. F. Palmer, G. Sun and D. R. Harris, 

“Tangential fl ow fi ltration 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 

fi ber 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, “Th e small mass assumption 

applied to the multibody dynamics of motor proteins,” 42: 

1218-23 Journal of Biomechanics (2009) 

G. Chen and A. F. Palmer, “Perfl uorocarbon facilitated O2 

transport in a hepatic hollow fi ber bioreactor,” 25: 1317-1321 

Biotechnology Progress (2009) 

J. Elmer, D. R. Harris, G. Sun and A. F. Palmer, “Purifi cation 

of hemoglobin by tangential fl ow fi ltration with diafi ltration,” 

25: 1402-1410 Biotechnology Progress (2009)

P. Cabrales, G. Sun, D. R. Harris, Y. Zhou, A. G. Tsai, M. 

Intaglietta and A. F. Palmer, “Eff ects 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, “Th e quaternary structure 

of tetrameric hemoglobin regulates the oxygen affi nity 

of polymerized hemoglobin” 25: 1803-1809 Biotechnology 

Progress (2009) 


$1,875,000, 2006-2011, Mechanically stable blood substitutes 

(PI), Agency: National Institutes of Health 

Grant: 1R01HL078840-01A1 

$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. 


Chempath, S., Pratt, L. R. Paulaitis, M. E., “Quasi-chemical 

theory with a soft cut-off ,” J. Chem. Phys. 130:054113 (2009). 


$365,000 Paulaitis, M.E., 2005-2010 

Th e Th ermodynamics of Protein Separations, National 

Science Foundation 

$143,000 Paulaitis, M.E., Schneck, J. P. 2007-2009 

Profi ling of Infl uenza-Specifi c 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 

Professor, Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 

1987. Interfacial phenomena, molecular 

self assembly, informatics. 


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 

Th ermodynamics, Supercritical Fluid 

Processing, Polymer Processing 


Inducted as Honorary Member in 

Texnikoi, College of Engineering, Th e Ohio State University 


Guo, Z., Yeh, S-K., Wingert, M.J., Ellis, J.L., Tomasko, 

D.L., Lee, L.J., “Comparison of Nanoclay and Carbon 

Nanofi ber 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., 

“Eff ects 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 Th in 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. 


$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 


Center for Aff ordable 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 

Hoff mann-La Roche 


Center for Aff ordable 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. 


Elevated to Senior Member status of IEEE 

Semi-fi nalist Innovator of the Year, Columbus Tech 

Innovation Awards 


Th akur, D., Deng, S., Baldet, T., Winter, J.O., “pH sensitive 

CdS–iron oxide fl uorescent–magnetic nanocomposites,” 

Nanotechnology, 20(48):485601, 2009. 

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. 

Rao, S.S., Winter, J.O., “Adhesion Molecule-Modifi ed 

Biomaterials for Neural Tissue Engineering,” Frontiers in 

Neuroengineering, 2(6):1-14, 2009. 


$300,000 Winter, Jessica O., Sarkar, Atom 2009-2012 

Brain Mimetic Materials for Cancer Cell Migration Studies, 


$313,433 Winter, Jessica O., Chalmers, Jeff rey, 

Brown, Anthony, 2009-2012, Fluorescent-Magnetic 

Nanomanipulators for Cytoskeletal Mechanical Investigations, 


$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 Associate Professor, Ph.D., RPI 2000. 

Biochemical Engineering, Bioseparations, 

Biosensing, Protein Engineering, Drug 

Discovery. 


Wu, W.-Y., Fong, B. A., Gillies, A. R. & Wood, D. W., 

“Recombinant Protein Purifi cation by Self-cleaving Elastinlike 

Polypeptide Fusion Tag,” Current Protocols in Protein 

Science, Chapter 26: Unit 26.4.1-18, (2009). 

Gillies, A., Banki, M. R. & Wood, D. W., “PHB-Intein 

Mediated Protein Purifi cation Strategy,” Methods in Molecular 

Biology: High Th roughput Protein Expression and Purifi cation, 

Vol. 498, (ed. Sharon A. Doyle). Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 

USA, (2009). 

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). 


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 Identifi cation 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 purifi cation by salt substitution,” 

Protein Expression and Purifi cation, 66(2), 198-202, 2009. 


$400,000 Wood, David 2004-2010 

Protein Switches for Biotechnology, National Science 

Foundation 

$250,000 Wood, David 2008-2010 

Bacterial Biosensors for Identifi cation of Endocrine 

Disruptors Associated with Autism Spectrum Disorder, 

Nancy Lurie Marks Family Foundation, Christina and Jeff rey 

Lurie Family Foundation

$275,000 Wood, David 2008-2010 

Bacterial Biosensors for Endocrine Disrupting Compounds, 

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. 

$273,404 Wood, David 2008-2011 

A General Expression System for the Production of Self- 

Purifying Proteins, US Army Research Offi ce. 

$160,000 Wood, David 2008-2010 

Commercialization of CA Enzyme (with Carbozyme, Inc.), 

New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology. 

Barbara Wyslouzil 

Research Award 

Professor, Ph.D., Caltech, 1992. Aerosol 

Science, Nucleation, Nanoparticle Growth 

and Structure, Biomedical Applications of 

Aerosols 


College of Engineering, 2009 Lumley 


Sinha, S., Wyslouzil, B.E., Wilemski, G., “Modeling of H2O/ 

D2O Condensation in Supersonic Nozzles”, Aerosol Science 

and Technology, 43(1):9–24, 2009 

Wu, Y., Chalmers, J., Wyslouzil, B. E., “Th e use of 

electrospray to disperse hydrophobic compounds in aqueous 

media,” Aerosol Science and Technology, 43 (9): 902-910, 2009 

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 


$198,705 Wyslouzil, Barbara E., 2004-2009 

Controlled drug delivery via solid lipid nanoparticles, 

National Science Foundation (OSU NSEC, subaward) 


Multicomponent droplet growth in supersonic natural gas 

separators, Petroleum Research Fund 


Th e formation rates and structure of nanodroplets, National 

Science Foundation 


Nanodroplet aerosols: Nucleation rates and structure, 



Multifunctional nanoparticles: Formation and fundamental 

studies, National Science Foundation (OSU NSEC, subaward) 

$399,961 Bohrer, Gil, Zhao, LingYing, Wyslouzil, Barbara 

E., 2010-2012, Large eddy simulations of PM dispersion 

to quantify the eff ects of windbreaks on air quality around 

CAFOs, U.S. Department of Agriculture 

Shang-Tian Yang 

Professor, Ph.D., Purdue University, 1984. 

Bioprocess engineering, biochemical 

engineering, tissue engineering, metabolic 

engineering 


Shang-Tian Yang, “Bioenergy”, Renewable 

Energy Focus Handbook, Academic Press, San Diego, CA 

(2009), Chapter 12.1, pp. 467-482. 


Jie Chen, Heming Chen, Xiangchen Zhu, Yinghua Lu, Shang- 

Tian Yang, Zhinan Xu, Peilin Cen, “Long-term production 

of soluble human Fas ligand through immobilization of 

Dictyostelium discoideum in a fi brous bed bioreactor”, Appl. 

Microbiol. Biotechnol., 82(2): 241-248 (2009). 

R. Ng, X. Zhang, N. Liu, and S.T. Yang, “Modifi cations of 

nonwoven polyethylene terephthalate fi brous matrices via 

NaOH hydrolysis: Eff ects on pore size, fi ber diameter, cell 

seeding and proliferation”, Process Biochem., 44(9): 992-998 

(2009). 

R. Ng, J. S. Gurm, and S.T. Yang, “Benzalkonium chloride 

sterilization of nonwoven fi brous scaff olds for astrocyte culture”, 

Th e 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). 

Aili Wei, Xuewu Zhang, Dong Wei, Gu Chen, Qingyu Wu, 

Shang-Tian Yang, “Eff ects of cassava starch hydrolysate on 

cell growth and lipid accumulation of heterotrophic microalgae 

Chlorella protothecoides”, J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol., 

36(11):1383-1389 (2009). 

A. Zhang and S.T. Yang, Propionic acid production from 

glycerol by metabolically engineered Propionibacterium acidipropionici, 

Process Biochem., 44:1346-1351 (2009). 


$ 90,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2006-2009 

Production of Organic Acids and Esters from Plant Biomass 

by Extractive Fermentation and Enzymatic Esterifi cation, Th e 

Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, Inc. (DOE) 

$131,179 Yang, Shang-Tian 2007-2009 

Microfl uidic CD Biochips for Enzyme-Linked 

Immunosorbent Assays, National Science Foundation, STTR 

Phase II, BioLOC 


Production of butanol from sugar wastes in a fi brous bed 

bioreactor, EnerGenetics International, Inc. 


An Integrated Fermentation-Ultrafi ltration Process for 

the Production of Xanthan Gum from Whey Lactose, 

Bioprocessing Innovative Company, Inc., USDA SBIR Phase 

II 

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Metabolic engineering of C. tyrobutyricum and C. 

acetobutylicum for butanol and hydrogen production, 

Nagarjuna (India) 

$1,000,000 Yang, Shang-Tian 2008-2010 

Engineering Clostridia for economic production of 

biobutanol as a biofuel , Ohio Department of Development 

Th ird Frontier Advanced Energy Program 


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., 


Production of fumaric acid from sugars and starch by 

fi lamentous fungal fermentation, Th e 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. 


Qi, Y., K. Littrell, P. Th iyagarajan, Y. Talmon, J. Schmidt, Z. 

Lin, and J. L. Zakin “Small Angle Neutron Scattering Study 

of Shearing Eff ects 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). 

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). 


$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

Professors 

Bhavik R. Bakshi 

Jeff rey 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 

Th omas 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 Post Doctoral Researcher 

Zhao Yu Post Doctoral Researcher 

Chunxiao Zhang Visiting Scholar 

Jingbo Zhao Post Doctoral Researcher 

Yang Zhao Research Associate 

Administrative Staff 

Angela Bennett Graduate Program 

Coordinator 

David Cade Building Coordinator 

Bill Cory Human Resources 

Manager 

Mike Davis Systems Specialist 

Brian Endres Academic Advising 

Coordinator 

Leigh Evrard Design Engineer 

Lynn Flanagan Department Business 

Offi cer 

Paul Green Laboratory Supervisor 

Geoff Hulse Director, CBE/MSE 

Joint Computing Lab 

Dave Jones Senior Support 

Engineer 

Martha Leming Administrative 

Associate (NSEC) 

Kirsten Marinko Communications 

Coordinator 

Layla Mohmmad-Ali Administrative Fiscal/ 

HR Administrator 

(NSEC) 

Holly Prouty Undergraduate 

Academic Advisor 

David Rieck Director of 

Development 

Susan Tesfai Fiscal Associate 

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