STUDENT NEWS
Undergraduate Student Achievements Undergraduate student, Lauren Kilburn, was admitted to a highly selective SURF/REU program at Purdue University, and recently submitted her first publication, in which she is the lead author. She is a member of Hibbitts Catalysis Lab.
William Watson (BSChE 2020), under the supervision of Mark E. Orazem, Ph.D., wrote a program for error structure analysis and regression of impedance data titled, A Pythonbased Measurement Model Toolbox for Impedance Spectroscopy. “This is a big deal for our research group and for the electrochemical research community at large,” Dr. Orazem said. “William’s program allows application of our measurement model ideas for
identification of error structure and regression of processspecific models.” The program is newly released under the open source license GNU GPL Version 3, which limits commercial use. The new program is based on a program and guide developed in the Orazem Research group in the 1990s. Work on the original measurement model began in 1989 and culminated in a graphical user interface written primarily in Matlab that interfaced with Fortran executables. The original measurement model program was not made generally available because each new version of Matlab broke a part of the program. The new code was written from the ground up in Python. Watson graduated in May 2020. In July, he started as a Python programmer at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. Watson writes programs that use artificial intelligence to automatically interpret chemical spectroscopies.
////////////////////////////////////////////////// Students Honored with End of Year Department Awards In response to the precautionary measures taken by the University of Florida to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the department postponed the annual Spring Banquet. Students were recognized for their achievements in June.
Undergraduate Awards John C. Biery Scholarship Samantha Angelina Boyington/Chapnerkar Legacy Scholarship in Chemical Engineering Karen Stauffer and Jenna Stephany Cirioli/Exxon Mobil Friends Scholarship Kayla Buch and Nicolas Roberto Marzolini Fahien Endowed Teaching Scholarship Caroline Hamric and Emerick Gilliams
Proctor and Gamble Chemical Engineering Scholarship Lauren Kilburn, Cole Korsog, and Dustin McDougald Shroff Family Endowed Scholarship in Chemical Engineering Jose Chang, Sotonye Eretoru, Nathan P. Garcia, Luis Perez Gonzalez, Yongyin Huang, Akira Kuroiwa, Aaron Lacambra, Chengbo Liang, Nhi Nguyen, and Joshua L. Pinto Howard W. and Norma J. Smoyer Scholarship/Fellowship in Chemical Engineering Samuel Keiffer and Jisung Seo
Kydonieus Fellowship/Scholarship John Carter Boelke and Tipton Lichtenstein
Excellence Awards
John P. O’Connell Scholarship Fund Jonathan Medina, Christian Ore, and Shivani Shrivastava
Research Achievement Caroline Hamrick, Lauren Kilburn, and Whitney Schramm
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Professional Achievement Christian Ore Leadership and Service to the Profession Emerick Gilliams, Cole Korsog, and Jonathan Medina Service to the Community Mary Lopez, Dustin McDougald, and Shivani Shrivastava
Graduate Awards Arnold J. “Red” Morway Memorial Graduate Fellowships Aayush Mittal, Tilakapriya Ganesh, and Mohammed Shariff
