Events

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Friday, March 15, 2019, for a lecture on systems and advanced decisions by Dr. Yu Luo, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Delaware’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

All undergraduate students are welcome to attend a lecture titled Introduction to Dynamic Programming, by Dr. Yu Luo, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Delaware’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. 

Biographical Sketch 

Dr. Yu Luo is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University and B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering at the National University of Singapore.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Monday, March 18, for a seminar by Dr. Todd Hoare, an associate professor from McMaster University’s Department of Chemical Engineering, speaking on microgels as functional biomedical nanoparticles.

The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomes Canadian Light Source’s Senior Staff Scientist Yongfeng Hu for a seminar about hard x-ray photoemission spectroscopy. All are welcome.

With rapidly mounting environmental concerns coupled with the accelerated depletion of fossil fuels, there is a significant demand for the development of advanced technologies for environmental remediation, as well as for the production of alternative energy transformation and storage devices. Nanostructured materials with high surface areas have garnered significant interest due to their unique properties and numerous impressive applications spanning electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, energy conversion and storage, sensors, and wastewater remediation.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Monday, May 6, for a seminar by Dr. Barbara Chan, a  professor from the University of Hong Kong’s Biomedical Engineering Programme. She will speak about her research team's multiphoton-based 3D microprinting technology's capability to fabricate complex protein microstructures and micropatterns.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Friday, May 31, for a seminar by Dr. Blanka Sharma, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida. She will speak about her research on the development of biomaterials and targeted therapies that direct the functions of stem and immune cells for applications ranging from tissue repair to cancer therapy.

The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomes National University of Singapore’s Professor Jun Li for a seminar about novel, supramolecular, self-assembled biomaterials for various biomedical applications. All are welcome.

Please join the Department of Chemical Engineering on Monday, June 17, for a seminar by Dr. Jeffrey S. Downey, Technical Manager Science and Innovation The Kingston Technology Centre and Managing Director of Innovation for DuPont Canada. 

Dr. Downey will discuss the merger of Dow Chemical and E.I. DuPont and the recent separation into three industry leading companies. In addition, he will discuss the opportunities that this has created in Canada and how the Kingston Technology Centre has become integral to the future of the new DuPont.