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Dear Alumni, Students and Friends: On behalf of our faculty, I wish everyone all the best in 2009. We’ve had an extraordinary year in the department, with enrollment rising fast, plans for our new building evolving, many successes noted for our students and faculty and a wonderful gift commitment by Ernestine R. and William G. Lowrie (BCE ’66). This annual report includes articles on all of these achievements, and I especially urge you to read the piece on Ernie and Bill. The Lowrie gift includes $11 million for our new, larger facility and $1 million for an endowed professorship in memory of Professor H.C. “Slip” Slider. In addition, the gift plan includes a future $2 million endowed Ernestine R. Lowrie chair and a $3 million endowment for emerging priorities. The University is responding to this magnanimous investment by naming the department the “William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.” Ours will be the first named department at Ohio State. Ernie wanted only Bill’s name in the department title, but we are pleased to name the new endowed chair in her name. The Lowries’ gift will facilitate a significant transformation of the department both physically, in terms of a new building, and intellectually, as it opens the door with enhanced resources to recruit new faculty, strengthen our undergraduate program and support advanced research. All of our faculty and students thank the Lowries for their generosity, which will greatly strengthen our department in the years to come. In addition to Bill and Ernie’s $11 million for the new Koffolt building, other ChemEs and friends have given nearly $600,000 for the project. We must raise $17.5 million by 2014 for the $120 million complex. The department is counting on you to help close this $6 million gap. There will be naming opportunities throughout our new home, beginning at $25,000 and up. This fall, more than 100 students, mostly sophomores, took our first course in material and energy balances. We taught a third section winter quarter, so we are anticipating graduation classes approaching or exceeding 100 in the not-too-distant future. Our new students are excellent, as Ohio State and the College of Engineering have become more and more selective over the past decade. Indeed, retention levels of students at the University and in our department have increased considerably. At the graduate level, our department fared very well in a review of all PhD programs at Ohio State; we are among the 12 top-tier graduate programs out of the 160 evaluated. Finally, I should mention that Sherry Stoneman recently retired. Many of you may know her—she has been the interface between our alumni and the department for nine years. This has been an eventful year for Sherry, as she received the “Above and Beyond Award” by the College of Engineering this fall. We will all miss her helpful attitude in so many areas of department operations. Best wishes from all 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 Undergraduate Program 11 Internships and Co-ops 2 Lowrie Naming Celebration 11 Placement Information 12 Undergraduate Scholarship Awards News Enrollment 4 William Lowrie Recipient of Alumni Medalist Award 4 Mike Winfield Awarded Lamme Medal 5 Tom Claugus Wins Distinguished Alumnus Award 5 L.S. Fan Named One of the “One Hundred Engineers of the Modern Era” 5 L.S. Fan Wins Innovation Award 6 Martin Feinberg’s Chemical Reaction Network Research 7 Stuart Cooper Elected to Governing Board of CCR 7 Jessica Winter Appointed to Slider Professorship 8 Michael Paulaitis Elected Fellow of AIMBE 8 Graduate Students Win Awards 9 Sherry Stoneman Wins Distinguished Staff Award 9 Craig Buckley Named Goldwater Scholar Graduate Program 15 Graduate Program Ranking 15 Faculty Productivity 16 Graduate Program Seminar Series 17 Graduate Student Awards 17 Graduate Student Fellowships 17 Research Expenditures 18 Graduate Degrees Granted 18 Lowrie Lectures 20 2008 Alumni Donors 22 2008 Advisory Board Meeting 22 National Committee for the Renovation and Expansion of Koffolt Laboratory 24 Faculty Activities Appendix 34 Appendix A Undergraduate Courses and Enrollments 35 Appendix B Undergraduates Co-ops and Internships 36 Appendix C 2008 BS Graduates 37 Appendix D Department Faculty and Staff William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 125 Koffolt Laboratories, 140 West 19th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: 614-292-6591, Fax: 614-292-3769, www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu Annual Report Staff Content: Sherry Stoneman Photography: Geoff Hulse 1
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