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SPRING 2011 • MIT Course X News • Web.Mit.Edu/Cheme SPRING 2011 • MIT Course x newS • Web.mit.Edu/cheme/ XCurrentsMIT Chemical Engineering ALumni NEwS Course x alumni share their updates and memories as MIT prepares for its 150th birthday. (Page 28) Letter from Department Head Klavs F. Jensen HigHligHts News from the Head 1 This semester, MIT celebrates its 150th birthday. The campus is busy with events and symposia and planning for our first Institute-wide “Open House” in over thirty Practice School News 4 years, scheduled for Saturday, April 30th. In this festive environment, it’s only natural to start thinking of the Faculty News 12 evolution of our own Course X. In an excerpt from the 1888 MIT Report to the President, the impetus for the Research News 16 creation of chemical engineering is explained: Alumni News 28 “There are a great number of industries which require constructions, for specific chemical operations, which can best be built, or can only be built, by engineers Spring Event Schedule 48 having a knowledge of the chemical processes involved. This class of industries is constantly increasing, both in number and in importance. Heretofore, the required constructions have, generally speaking, been designed, and work findfind thethe latestlatest newsnews online:online: upon them has been supervised and conducted, either by chemists, having an inadequate knowledge of engineering principles and unfamiliar with engineering, web.mit.edu/cheme/web.mit.edu/cheme/ or even building, practice; or else by engineers whose designs were certain to be either more laborious and expensive than was necessary, or less efficient MITChemEngMITChemEng MITChemEMITChemE than was desirable, because they did not thoroughly understand the objects in view, having no familiarity, or little familiarity, with the chemical conditions under which the processes of manufacture concerned must be carried on. It was 2 Letter from the Department Head continued to meet this demand for engineers having a good knowledge Doyle’s hydrogel barcodes could simplify medical diagnostics. of general and applied chemistry, that the course in Chemical You can find more information about our faculty’s work in the Engineering was established.” (1888 MIT President’s Report, Research News section of the newsletter. Course X, Page 42) I’d also like to take a moment to mention some honors that Over the past 120 years, the discipline has certainly expanded have been achieved in the department. Professor Chris Love its scope into the realms of energy, biomedical research, was named one of Popular Science’s “Brilliant 10”; just off business and other areas, but the essence of our field remains the heels of Michael Strano, who made the list last year. the same. Chemical engineers solve problems and provide Bob Langer was a recipient of the National Academy of practical solutions in environments where chemistry, biology, Engineering’s Founders Award. Greg Stephanopoulos was first and engineering converge. runner-up for the ConocoPhillips Energy Prize and Kristala As an alumnus/a of MIT Course X, you have helped to shape Prather won the School of Engineering’s Junior Bose Award for the department into its current role as a leader in chemical Excellence in Teaching. engineering research and education. We are deeply grateful A big congratulations also goes to three recent well-deserved to you not only for this, but for the continued support of our promotions: Chris Love and Kristala Prather to associate alumni through the years. professor, and Pat Doyle to full professor. Chris has made With this sentiment, the Spring 2011 XCurrents is dedicated an impact on immunology through his development of an to you, our alumni. In February, we asked you to send us imprinting technique for analyzing large numbers of individual updates on your lives and to share memories of your time in living cells quantitatively and dynamically. His approach Course X. To our delight, we were inundated with news, and measures multiple characteristics of single cells, and from throughout the magazine, you will find reminiscences and those data he can construct detailed profiles that describe information from Course X alumni around the world. Due to the state and evolution of the cell itself or the multicellular space constrictions, we were not able to include the entirety population of which it is a member. Kristala’s research interests of some of the submissions, but you can find them all at web. are centered on the design and assembly of recombinant mit.edu/cheme/alumni/. If you microorganisms for the production of small molecules, haven’t already, I encourage you with additional efforts in novel to submit your own news to be Chemical engineers solve bioprocess design approaches. included on the webpage and in A particular focus is the the fall 2011 XCurrents. elucidation of design principles problems and provide for the production of unnatural This past fall, our faculty organic compounds within the presented several research practical solutions in framework of the burgeoning breakthroughs, which are also field of synthetic biology. Pat’s highlighted in this edition. research focuses on dynamics Through his work with nanotubes, environments where of soft matter and engineering Professor Michael Strano’s applications of these materials. research group broke an MIT chemistry, biology, and Research projects in his group News Office record in September include single molecule studies by publishing three papers in the engineering converge. in nanofluidic devices, lab on course of a week. First, he and his chip devices for single DNA team developed self-assembling photovoltaic technology that analysis, flow lithography for production of new soft matter, can repair itself. Secondly, his researchers observed for the first and barcoded particles for high multiplexed diagnostic assays. time single ions moving through carbon nanotubes, one at a More details on these distinctions are under “Faculty News.” time, which could help create detectors for water-desalination. Finally, Michael created an antenna from nanotubes that could The department was privileged to host the Department of make photovoltaic cells more efficient by concentrating solar Energy’s under secretary for science, Steven E. Koonin PhD ’75, energy. as the 2010 Hoyt C. Hottel Lecturer. More information on the lecture can be found on page 27, as well as a webcast of the All of our faculty have been busy: Professor Kristala Prather lecture at web.mit.edu/cheme/news/hottel.html. ’94 used protein and metabolic engineering to boost bacteria’s manufacturing capabilities. Greg Stephanopoulos, Bob This spring, we have three major lectures planned: Tillman Langer (ScD ’74), and Paula Hammond ’84 made strides in Gerngross of Dartmouth will discuss recent advances in yeast nanotechnology to help fight cancer. Paula also developed a biotechnology at April 15th’s Frontiers of Biotechnology layer-by-layer assembly that can help prevent infection from Lecture; Gary Calabrese of Corning, Inc. will speak on surgery. Karen Gleason made paper-thin solar cells and Patrick “Engineering Products and Processes for a Sustainable World,” Chemical Engineering Alumni News Spring 2011 for the latest Course X news, go to web.mit.edu/cheme/ 3 at the Warren K. Lewis Lecture on April 29th; and the May Corporation, always in R&D. I have over 40 patents covering 6th Alan S. Michaels Lecture will host Cato Laurencin PhD ’87, those years. For most of this I can thank my education under whose lecture will be “Regenerative Engineering Paradigms for those giants I have named above. I know that by now those Musculoskeletal Tissues.” I hope formulas are old hat, but they you will be able to join us for any do encompass the work of or all of these events. As an alumnus/a of many, many grad students and researchers who did the The Chemical Engineering ground work.” Department is planning several MIT Course X, you have demonstrations and presentations Robert is right - it’s easy in Building 66 during the April 30th helped to shape the today to take for granted the MIT Open House. Our graduate strong foundation of chemical and undergraduate students are department into its engineering education and in the planning stages now and practice created through the excited for the opportunity to hard work of those who came show budding scientists the basics current role as a leader before us in Course X. This of chemical engineering through edition of the newsletter takes walking through non-Newtonian in chemical engineering a moment to consider how fluids and experiencing firsthand today’s strides in energy and heat-transfer. If you are near biomedical technology, materials Cambridge on that Saturday from research and education. and pharmacuticals could not 11am to 4pm, we hope to see you! have been made without the base laid by our emeriti faculty and Last year, I received a letter from Robert A. Hard SM ’49, who, alumni. after reading the Spring 2010 alumni news, wrote: As always, I hope you enjoy this issue of the newsletter and “My years in the department were in the 47-49 era in I give a very hearty “thank you” again to all the alumni who the days of Profs Lewis, Gilliland, Hottel, McAdams and contributed. We look forward to your feedback. Thank you for Meisner… In my day, we quailed at the enumerable your support and best regards. complex formulas for heat and mass transfer that had been developed over the thirties and forties and wondered what use they might have in the real world. Over the years I have worked for Arthur D. Little, Union Carbide, Kennecott Copper, Occidental Petroleum and Cabot Klavs F. Jensen Department Head MIT Chemical Engineering Department Department Head Klavs Jensen presents Professor Kristala On the cover: In Course X’s flagship laboratory Prather with the 2010 Junior Bose Award. Prather was also course, 10.26, undergraduates are confronted with recently promoted to associate professor.
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