ChBE Honors Its Most Outstanding Students The annual Student Honors Luncheon, which was sponsored this year by Fluor and AIChE, was held April 5 in the Gossage Atrium of the Ford ES&T Building. Several special guests, most of whom were sponsors of special awards, attended the event: Harold Boman, ME ‘75, Vice President of Life Sciences, Fluor Corporation; Cherry L. Emerson, Jr., Friend of Georgia Tech; Kathryn Goins, PSY, ‘08; Sylvia Little, ChE ’88, Senior Research Scientist, Kimberly-Clark; Joy Jordan, ChE ’92, Senior Research Scientist, Kimberly-Clark; and John A. Ziegler, Phys ’61, ’65.
UNDERGRADUATE Leadership AIChE Student Chapter President – Kyle Ross AIChE Student Chapter Vice President – Jovy Roach AIChE Southern Regional Conference Paper Competition – Veda Bartlow Omega Chi Epsilon Student Chapter President – Ross Perchuk Omega Chi Epsilon Student Chapter Vice President – Gretell Otano Omega Chi Epsilon Excellence Award – Victoria Balcer
2005 Ziegler Award for Best Proposal – Anshul Dubey
Eastman Engineering Merit Scholarship – Ryan Lewis Rohm and Haas Sophomore Scholar Award – Thomas Brown
Teaching 2005 Outstanding Teaching Assistant – Ying Wang 2005 Ziegler Outstanding Faculty – Pradeep Agrawal
Exemplary Academic Achievement Seniors – Stephen Baehl, Marc Baumgardner, Shane Bechler, Nathan Bower, Kamber Christensen, Adam Dean, Justin Ford, Osama Kashlan, Tien Nhu Le, Kevin Nagy, Abigail Pynn, Joshua Quarterman, Steven Schneider, Steven Slack, Matthew Swisher, Kathryn Ussery, and Dung Huu Vuong
Exemplary Academic Achievement Wu Bi, Cheng Chen, Megan Donaldson, Christopher Gill, Jyoti Gupta, Madhava Kosuri, John Reye, and Anne Ruffing Additionally, ChBE students recently received the following awards for the 04-05 academic year:
Juniors – Julie Hietpas, Jeffrey Hull, Jason Moore, Nimish Pandya, Alicia Powers, Graham Thorsteinson, and Ryan West
2004 AIChE Member of the Year Award for the Atlanta Professional Chapter – Rebecca Shiels
Sophomores – Sohail Ali, Joseph Holt, Jared Schaeffer, Frederick Stokes, Jessica Swearengen, Stuart Terrett, Jelle Van de Vall, and Emily Yandle
The R.E.B. Fellowship – Jonathan Rawlston, Megan Donaldson, and George Dumont The Holloway Fellowship – Michael Beck The James Harris Fellowship – Christine Ford
focused his research on the intimate relationship that exists between polymer structure, processing, and properties.
Freshmen – Blair Cox, Daniel Griffin, Robert Griffin, Cintia Nojima, Jin Sol Oh, Erin Rives, and Merin Zachariah
Dr. Samuels is a Fellow of the Society of Plastics Engineers, the 1999 recipient of the Society of Plastics Engineers International Research Award, and the 2002 recipient of the Department of Commerce National Textile Center Professor Robert Samuels and his wife, Scientific Excellence Pat, at the party held in his honor. Award. He is also the author of the book, Structured Robert Samuels retired last Polymer Properties: The Identificafall after serving on the tion, Interpretation, and Application School’s faculty since 1979. of Crystalline Polymer Structure. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Akron and
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Overall Accomplishments Leadership Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Freshman Awards 20032004 – Michael Mayo and Alicia Powers Albemarle Corporation/Dixie Goins Outstanding Sophomore – Andria Davis AIChE/Kimberly-Clark Outstanding Senior – Stephen Marek Eastman Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering – Osama Kashlan
Harold Boman, ME ‘75, Vice President of Life Sciences, Fluor Corporation, addressed students during the Honors Luncheon, which Fluor co-sponsored.
2005 Symposium Chairs – James Falabella and Elizabeth Giambra 2005 Teamwork Awards – Jyoti Gupta, Justin Johnson, Gelareh Shakourian, and Paul Wissmann Research Accomplishments 2005 Ziegler Award for Best Paper – Jeessy Medina 5