The Coki Racing Team Wins Third Place in AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition

The Chem-E-Car Competition, hosted by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), requires students to design and construct a small-scale vehicle that operates by chemical means. The competition challenges students to create, innovate and explore new technologies that can serve as alternative sources of energy. During the competition, vehicles must travel a specific distance of…

ChE Seminar Series: “Clear Thinking Becomes Clear Writing” Rodolfo J. Romañach (UPRM)

  Rodolfo J. Romañach, from the Department of Chemistry-UPRM will be offering a lecture titled “Clear Thinking Becomes Clear Writing”   Date: April 24, 2014 Time: 10:30 am – 12:00 pm Place: INQU 004 – Amphitheater   Abstract: “Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can’t exist without the other. It’s impossible for a muddy thinker to write good English.”1  These…

UC Berkeley Engineering Preview Day

UC Berkeley Engineering Preview Day The College of Engineering is hosting its second annual Engineering Preview Day, April 30-May 2. This 3 day event will allow students to meet individually with engineering faculty in their discipline, socialize with our graduate students, network with campus research centers and Bay Area National Labs as well as tour…

Post-doc Position at West Virginia University

WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY BENJAMIN M. STATLER COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND MINERAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING The Department of Chemical Engineering in the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University invites applications for a post-doctoral fellow to support Dr. Rakesh K. Gupta’s research program on rheology of polymer solutions.…

Post-doc Opening at Sandia National Laboratories

Postdoctoral Opening at Sandia National Laboratories Fluid Sciences and Engineering Department The Fluid Sciences and Engineering Department is seeking an applicant for a post-doctoral appointment. The applicant must have a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, or other related engineering field. The applicant should have a strong background in solving coupled multi-physics problems,…

Córdova-Figueroa and experimental collaborator’s paper appears in Nature Chemistry

Congratulations to Prof. Ubaldo M Córdova-Figueroa and his colleagues from Pennsylvania State University and the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics in Russia for their contributions in the area of self-powered micropumps in the prestigious Nature Chemistry. Samudra Sengupta, Debabrata Patra, Isamar Ortiz-Rivera, Arjun Agrawal, Sergey Shklyaev, Krishna K. Dey, Ubaldo Córdova-Figueroa, Thomas E. Mallouk & Ayusman…

NSF Awards CREST Center Phase II Grant to UPRM

English Version: On March 17th, 2014 the Research & Development Center (RDC) unit of the University of Puerto Rico – Mayagüez (UPRM) received notification of a grant award from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to support Phase II of the UPRM CREST: Nanotechnology Center for Biomedical, Environmental and Sustainability Applications. The grant award was made…