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Engineering for Society Boldly innovating to better our world 2016 | 2017 Chair’s Message | 1 Quick Facts | 2 SCHOLARSHIP REPORT Honors | 3 Our Faculty | 5 Chemical Engineering WE ARE A LEADER IN EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH, FOCUSED ON ENGINEERING FOR SOCIETY Dear Friends, The Department of Chemical Engineering has been on fire over the past five years. For example our undergraduate student body has tripled, our graduate student body has tripled, there has been over a 200% increase in research funding, and our faculty size has doubled. This has all culminated into our recognition by the U.S. News and World Report that over this five year period, we have experienced the greatest increase in graduate school rankings for any department ever on record. It is clear that our impact in chemical engineering education and research is at a record level and is poised for continual unprecedented growth in the years ahead. We offer degrees at all levels (Bachelor of Science, Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy) and are internationally renowned for high quality classroom-based education in conjunction with industrial work experience. Our top-rated (and one of the nation’s largest) Cooperative (Co-op) Education program was one of the first in the country and the Chemical Engineering Co-op program currently places students in over 55 companies spanning the areas of consumer products, plastics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, alternative energy, and petrochemicals, to name a few. We even place students in international co-op locations in the UK, France, Switzerland, China, and Vietnam. It is not hard to see why we have been ranked four times as the Best Internship/Career Service University by the Princeton Review. Our undergraduate program is accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) of ABET, Inc. ensuring that our program meets the quality standards established by the profession of Chemical Engineering. Our award- winning undergraduate student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is very active in many outreach programs, such as the ChemE Car competition and hosting regional AIChE annual conferences. Our graduate program is very interdisciplinary and offers students opportunities to work with outstanding faculty to attain research experience and achieve their career goals in a variety of sub- fields of chemical engineering. Collectively, our graduate students and faculty have organized over 24 conferences in the past five years demonstrating our leadership across chemical engineering. I invite you to explore our Department of Chemical Engineering through this Scholarship Report and find out why we have been listed among the top “up-and- coming national universities” by the U.S. News and World Report. Sincerely, Thomas J. Webster Art Zafiropoulo Chair and Professor Department Chair, Chemical Engineering [email protected] 1 QUICK FACTS — Chemical Engineering 100+ 32 Countries represented 23 across both undergraduate GRADUATE TENURED/ and graduate levels students TENURE-TRACK Faculty 58% 250% INCREASE IN INCREASE RESEARCH IN VISITING EXPENDITURES SCHOLARS SINCE 2012 SINCE 2013 2012 2013 2017 2017 QUICK FACTS — College of Engineering MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH CENTERS funding by eight federal agencies 13 40 173 DHS HHS NSA NSF TENURED/ NSF CAREER DOE EPA NIH NIST TENURE-TRACK Awards Faculty 3566 3177 ENGINEERING UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE students students DEPARTMENTS 77 Bioengineering NEW FALL Chemical Engineering UNDERGRADUATE students NEW FALL MS students YOUNG 2015 — 2016 2015 — 2016 Civil and Environmental Engineering INVESTIGATOR Electrical and Computer Engineering 665 942 Awards Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 729 1178 2 but completely invisible to the naked eye. FACULTY HONORS Additionally, Su’s research on cancer biomarker detection using phase change AND AWARDS nanoparticles was highlighted in the recent annual report of Lung Cancer Professor Laura Lewis, Research Program of Congressionally jointly appointed Directed Medical Research Program of the in mechanical and Department of Defense. industrial engineering, won a Fulbright U.S. Chair and Professor of Chemical Scholar Program grant Engineering and Art Zafiropoulo Chair for a research project in Engineering Thomas Webster was in Spain to advance her awarded a patent for "System and Method research in magnetic for Attaching Soft Tissue to an Implant materials. Dr. Lewis was also selected as Comprising a Nanotextured Surface." an American Physical Society fellow for for Dr. Webster also received the International investigations of fundamental structure- Society for Ceramics in Medicine Excellence property relationships in functional Award for outstanding service in the field of biomaterials. magnetic materials from a unified Professor Rebecca Carrier (PI) and perspective, specifically for "advancing Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Abigail Koppes permanent magnet, magnetic cooling, and (Co-I) were awarded a $5M National biomedical applications." Nasim Annabi’s research to solve Institutes of Health Bioengineering the problem of Research Partnership grant to develop Professor Shashi an in vitro model of the human gut that Murthy was awarded chronic non-healing wounds has led to the can be utilized for laboratory study. a $300K NSF grant to This is a collaborative project between create a "Bioreactor development of the first elastic and adhesive Northeastern University, MIT, and Boston System for Autologous Children’s Hospital. T-Cell Stimulation." wound dressing with The cell type that is adhesive, antimicrobial, and regenerative most commonly used properties. The research findings were to target cancers is the T cell, a type of published in the Journal of Biomaterials. white blood cell. The project addresses the manufacturing challenge associated with Vincent Harris, T cell stimulation with an interdisciplinary University approach to design disposable stimulation Distinguished systems that can accept dendritic cell and Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair T cell samples, accomplish the desired QSM Diagnostics, founded by Associate stimulation in a timely and efficient Professor, electrical and computer Professor Edgar Goluch, was awarded manner, and generate enough T cells for a an “In-Kind Silver Winner” prize at the therapeutic dose. engineering, received in collaboration with Quorvo an $8M grant 2016 MassChallenge. QSM Diagnostics (2017-2019) from the Defense Advanced uses a proprietary instrument sensor Associate Teaching Research Projects Agency for a project, to identify common infectious bacteria Professor Lucas “MAgnetics on GaN for Next GEneration in bodily fluids within one minute at the Landherr recently won T/R Systems (MAGNETS),” which involves point-of-care. the 2016 Outstanding the Integration of active and passive Teacher Award from elements in GaN-based Transmit and Chair and Professor of Chemical the Northeast section receive modules. Engineering and Art Zafiropoulo Chair in of American Society for Engineering Thomas Webster developed Engineering Education Associate Professor a novel self-assembling nanomolecule (ASEE). This award is given by each ASEE Ming Su received a that is being exclusively licensed by section, with support, where possible, from $300K grant from Audax Medical, Inc. for use in tissue th local industry. The award, which focuses the National Institute regeneration. Additionally, at the 13 on outstanding classroom performance, of Justice to work IASTED International Conference on recognizes teachers of engineering and on new nanoparticle Biomedical Engineering in Innsbruck, engineering technology students and serves barcodes, which would Austria, Webster was awarded the Plenary as an incentive to make further significant have an astronomically Award for his lab's contributions to contributions to teaching. large coding space as commercializing nanomedicine. compared to those of printed barcodes, 3 FACULTY BY RESEARCH AREAS 21 21 Faculty Faculty ADVANCED BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS ENGINEERING RESEARCH Mansoor Amiji Nasim Annabi Nasim Annabi Debra Auguste Anand Asthagiri Sidi Bencherif Debra Auguste Sunho Choi Sidi Bencherif Arthur Coury Rebecca Carrier Matthew Eckelman Heather Clark Adam Ekenseair Arthur Coury Hicham Fenniri Paul DiMilla Joshua Gallaway Eno Ebong Andrew Gouldstone Adam Ekenseair Vincent Harris Hicham Fenniri Francisco Hung Edgar Goluch Barry Karger Abigail Koppes Lucas Landherr Ryan Koppes Laura Lewis Carolyn W.T. Lee-Parsons Courtney Pfluger Shashi Murthy Ming Su Nikolai Slavov Thomas Webster Srinivas Sridhar Richard West Ming Su Ronald Willey Thomas Webster Katherine Ziemer 4 FACULTY MANSOOR AMIJI NASIM ANNABI University Distinguished Professor, Pharmaceutical Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Sciences; affiliated faculty, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering PhD, University of Sydney, Australia, 2010 PhD, Purdue University, 1992 che.neu.edu/people/annabi-nasim che.neu.edu/people/amiji-mansoor Scholarship focus: advanced Scholarship focus: polymeric biomaterials, biomaterials; soft tissue engineering; 3D drug delivery systems, nanomedical technologies microfabrication; vascularized 3D tissues; Honors and awards: Fellow, American Association of nanocomposite hydrogels Pharmaceutical Scientists; Fellow, Controlled Release Society; SELECTED PUBLICATIONS T. Nagai Award, Controlled Release Society N. Annabi, S.R. Shin, A. Tamayol, M. Miscuglio, M. Bakooshli, SELECTED PUBLICATIONS A. Assman, P. Mostrafalu, J.-Y. Sun, S.M. Mithieux,