At the November Forum sponsored by Shell Global Solutions, Inc. for the American Institute for Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, Dr. Dilhan Kalyon will receive the 2008 Thomas Baron Award in fluid/particle systems.

This award recognizes an individual's outstanding scientific/technical accomplishment which has made a significant impact in the field of fluid-particle systems or in a related field with potential for cross-fertilization. Selection criteria include:

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Professor Dilhan Kalyon
Institute Professor & Director of Highly Filled Materials Institute
McLean Building
Room 401
Phone: 201.216.8225
dkalyon@stevens.edu

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) picked six to study biomass conversion technology and awarded Stevens Institute of Technology with a $1 million grant to support research and development into biomass conversion technologies. The grant was one of six awarded by the DoE to various higher-education institutions to develop their advanced biofuels projects. In total, the DOE will invest up to $4.4 million in these university projects for their research into how non-food feedstocks ...read more

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Professor Adeniyi Lawal
Professor
Burchard
Room 427
Phone: 201.216.8241
Fax: 201.216.8306

alawal@stevens.edu

Stevens Professor Yong Shi was recently awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to study: Nano AFCs Acoustic Emission Sensors for Real-time Monitoring of Structures.The objective of his research is to apply innovative nanotechnologies for creating acoustic emission (AE) sensors for real-time monitoring of structures. The proposed AE sensors are composed of Nanoscale Active Fiber Composites (NAFCs) and Shi's research involves the design, manufacturing and characterization of the se ...read more

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Dr. Yong Shi
Associate Professor
Room E207
Phone: 201.216.5594
Fax: 201.216.8315

yong.shi@stevens.edu

Prof. Yang was invited by several research/education institutions in Korea to discuss efforts at Stevens in the area of MEMS and Nanotechnology. A link to an online story (in Korean) is here

Dr. Yong Shi along with researchers: Dr. Chang-Hwan Choi, Dr. Frank Fisher, Dr. Stefan Strauf, Dr. Eui-Hyeok Yang, Dr. Adeniyi Lawal, Dr. Hongjun Wang, Dr. Xiaojun Yu, and Dr. Daizong Li recently were awarded a National Science Foundation MRI Grant for the "Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma Etching System for Nano/Micro Device Fabrication."

The objective of the Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) etching system is to achieve uniform and highly selecti ...read more

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Dr. Yong Shi
Associate Professor
Room E207
Phone: 201.216.5594
Fax: 201.216.8315

yong.shi@stevens.edu

Professor Ronald Besser of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science co-chaired the 10th International Conference on Microreaction Technology (IMRET-10), held April 6-10, 2008 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The symposium featured more than 130 presentations on such topics pharmaceutical synthesis, enzymatic processes, energy generation and fuel processing, and mass and heat transport issues. The symposium was truly international in ...read more

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Dr. Ronald Besser
Professor and Program Director
Room 408
Phone: 201.216.5257
Fax: 240.255.4028

rbesser@stevens.edu