Penn Engineers’ ‘Photonic Doping’ Makes Class of Metamaterials Easier to Fabricate
The field of metamaterials, an intersection of materials science, physics, nanotechnology and electrical engineering, aims to produce structures with unusual electromagnetic properties. Through the careful combination of multiple materials in a precise periodic arrangement, the resulting metamaterials exhibit properties that otherwise couldn’t exist, such as a negative index of refraction. Some metamaterials can even channel […]
David M. Ford, ChE PhD’96, Named Department Head at University of Arkansas
On January 1, 2017, David M. Ford, ChE PhD’96, started a new position as Department Head of the Ralph E. Martin Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. As head of chemical engineering, David will lead a department of 16 faculty members, 20 full-time staff and over 300 students. Before taking on his […]
Michael E. Hanyak, Jr. ChE’76
Michael E. Hanyak, Jr. ChE ’76 is an Emeritus Professor of Chemical Engineering at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA. He received his B.S. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1966, M.S. from Carnegie Mellon in 1968, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976. From 1967-1970, Dr. Hanyak worked as […]
Penn Chemical Engineers Published in Soft Matter Journal
CBE’s Dr. Kathleen Stebe (Richer & Elizabeth Goodwin Professor) collaborated with recent CBE Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Nathan Bade, Dr. Randall D. Kamien (Vicki and William Abrams Professor in the Natural Sciences) and Dr. Richard Assoian (Professor of Pharmacology) on a study of how cells are affected by an edge on a planar surface. The study […]
DOE Renews Hammer and Lee’s Grant to Study Synthetic Cells
Daniel Hammer, Alfred G. and Meta A. Ennis Professor of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Daeyeon Lee, Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, had their grant renewed by the Department of Energy’s Biomolecular Materials program to determine how to build communication machinery into synthetic materials and ultimately engineer synthetic cells. The project, […]
Joseph Cramer, CHE ’66, GR’71
Joseph Cramer, CHE ’66, GR’71, enjoyed a long, successful career in chemical engineering, until his retirement in 2012 from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers where he was the Director of Technical Programming, as well as a Director and Fellow with AIChE. Even while now retired, Joe is still heavily involved as a volunteer on […]