Each
semester the AIChE and TAPPI student chapters host a spring and fall picnic at
Robinson Lake Park. These are wonderful events where alumni, students, staff,
faculty and friends come together for a potluck BBQ, softball, volleyball,
frisbee and relaxation. In addition Dr Drown hosts the annual AIChE Christmas
Party at his house. In this picture Andrew Tong (BS 05) tends to the "mother of
all grills." The department has dubbed this grill "The Black Pac Man."
Each
spring the department competes in the annual
Waste-Management Environmental Research
Consortium design competition in Las Cruces, New Mexico. During the past 14
years the UI team has earned over 22 trophies, a traveling trophy and more than
$25,000 in prize monies. Pictured here is the 2003 WERC team led by
Dr. Woody Admassu and Dr. Dave Drown.
Chemical
engineering students have opportunities to compete in various regional and
national competitions including the AIChE Regional and National Conferences and
the UI-sponsored Engineering Design Expo. Che students are judged on their
booth or poster exhibit and must give an oral presentation before a panel of
judges with backgrounds in chemical engineering. Here, freshman Dusty
Berggren explains their 2005 Chem-E car project to a judge.
ChE
students also have the opportunity to simple demonstrate chemical engineering
experiments to K-12 summer engineering and science groups that come to the UI
campus. The College of Engineering sponsors a two-week summer Junior
Engineering, Mathematics and Science course (JEMS) for sixty high school
students interested in science. In this picture Dr. Aaron Thomas
demonstrates how to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen to a high school
student.
Each
semester the AIChE and TAPPI student chapters host a spring and fall picnic at
Robinson Lake Park. These are wonderful events where alumni, students, staff,
faculty and friends come together for a potluck BBQ, softball, volleyball,
frisbee and relaxation. In addition Dr Drown hosts the annual AIChE Christmas
Party at his house. In this picture Andrew Tong (BS 05) tends to the "mother of
all grills." The department has dubbed this grill "The Black Pac Man."
Each
spring the department competes in the annual
Chemical
engineering students have opportunities to compete in various regional and
national competitions including the AIChE Regional and National Conferences and
the UI-sponsored Engineering Design Expo. Che students are judged on their
booth or poster exhibit and must give an oral presentation before a panel of
judges with backgrounds in chemical engineering. Here, freshman Dusty
Berggren explains their 2005 Chem-E car project to a judge.
ChE
students also have the opportunity to simple demonstrate chemical engineering
experiments to K-12 summer engineering and science groups that come to the UI
campus. The College of Engineering sponsors a two-week summer Junior
Engineering, Mathematics and Science course (JEMS) for sixty high school
students interested in science. In this picture Dr. Aaron Thomas
demonstrates how to make ice cream using liquid nitrogen to a high school
student.