The ChE GSA is volunteering at the opening ceremonies of the Special Olympics. The opening ceremonies start at 6:30pm at Medlar Field.
Fill out the volunteer form and be sure to select the “Opening Ceremonies” in the volunteer opportunity selection section.
Those volunteering are invited to free dinner at Chipotle, courtesy of the ChE GSA, at 5:30pm.
The ChE GSA is hosting a “Meet the Nomniees” for the 2017-2018 executive board on Monday, May 8 in 58 Greenberg. The event will begin at 5pm. Food will be served.
The event is an opportunity to get to know the future ChE GSA executive board and learn about their vision for the organization. Nominees are encouraged to prepare a brief statement about themselves, detailing the impacts they would like to have on the ChE GSA executive board.
The ChE GSA will be celebrating Administrative Professionals Day on Thursday, April 27 with Creamery ice cream. Ice cream will be served at 12:30pm, location TBA (but likely in 58 Greenberg).
We will have at least a few, if not all, of the following flavors:
– Death by Chocolate
– Coconut Chocolate Chip
– Arboretum Breeze
– Mint Chocolate Chip
– Vanilla
Please stop by and thank the ChE staff for all of the work they do for us.
Requests for graduate student teaching assistant (TA) positions for the Fall 2017 semester are due on Friday, April 28. Email Cathy Krause (cje10[at]psu.edu) a list of the courses for which you are interested in serving as a TA. In your email to Cathy, also include the name of your advisor and why you would like to serve as a TA (such as fulfilling your degree requirement, funding assistance, interest in teaching, and so on).
The following are the classes that require TAs in the fall semester and the professors that are teaching them:
ChE 210 – Material Balances (Andrew Zydney)
ChE 220 – Intro to Thermo (Enrique Gomez)
ChE 230 – Computational Tools (Scott Milner)
ChE 320 – Phase & Chemical Equilibria (Michael Janik & Stephanie Velegol)
ChE 330 – Fluid Mechanics (Manish Kumar)
ChE 340 – Biomolecular Engineering (Thomas Wood)
ChE 350 – Heat Transfer (Costas Maranas)
ChE 410 – Mass Transfer (Xueyi Zhang)
ChE 430 – Reaction Engineering (Robert Rioux
ChE 452 – Process Safety (Dawn McFadden)
ChE 470 – Process Design (Dawn McFadden)
ChE 480 – ChE Lab (Seong Kim & Mechteld Hillsley)
A tailgate for Blue & White Weekend will be held on Saturday, April 22. The ChE GSA is co-sponsoring the tailgate with AIChE and RAM Squad.
All three organizations will be meeting at the Life Science Bridge at 8am on the day of the tailgate. Drivers with tailgating parking passes (purchased on the day of the tailgate for $20) will then drive to one of the designated tailgating lots near the Beaver Stadium. The tailgate will run until 3pm, which is the start of the annual spring football game at Beaver Stadium (free to attend). You are welcome to come and go from the tailgate as you please.
The exact location of the tailgate will not be known until our vehicles are parked. Updates on the tailgate’s location will be given through the ChE grad student list-serv and through the event Facebook page.
The tailgate will feature food, drinks, and games. Panera will be catering breakfast. The menu has not been set for lunch yet, but a grill will be available. Vegetarian options will be available for both meals. Attendees are encouraged to bring additional food and drinks to share with everyone.
More Blue & White festivities can be found on GoPSUSports.com.
The ChE GSA has a selection of snacks in the lunchroom in Greenberg that are available for purchase. The proceeds from the snacks will go 1) to defray the cost of having them there and 2) to benefit ChE GSA events.
If you have any reasonable requests for snacks, please email Dan Cetnar (dpc5107@psu.edu).
The University of Washington’s “Distinguished Young Scholars Seminar” (DYSS) series is taking applications from near-graduation PhD students (within 6 months) and post-docs. Eight candidates will be chosen to present at an hour-long research seminar at UW sometime between June and August. UW will provide all travel expenses. The top speaker of the series (as judged by UW chemical engineering graduate students) will receive a $500.00 prize.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday, May 24, 2017, with decisions being finalized on Monday, May 29.
For more information, please go to the DYSS website.
The graduate student team won the spring ChE 5k at Circleville Park on Saturday, besting the faculty/staff, the senior undergraduate, and the sophomore-junior undergraduate teams. Cross country scoring was used, with the top seven runners on each team counting towards the finals results.
A total of 17 graduate students ran the ChE 5k, which was run in conjunction with the Bunny Hop 5k hosted by the State College National Honor Society. The money raised from the run supported the Four Diamonds Fund, an organization that funds pediatric cancer research.
This was the first team win for the graduate students in the three ChE 5k races. A combined undergraduate team won the inaugural race in spring 2016 at the Faith Centre 5k in Bellefonte and the sophomore-junior undergrad team won the fall 2016 race at the Thon 5k.
The overall results for the race can be found here.
The Engineering Graduate Student Council (EGSC) is hosting an engineering graduate student mixer on Wednesday, April 19 at Cafe 210. The mixer will be held from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. Snacks include a nacho bar.
You can find more information about the mixer on Facebook and Google Calendar.
You can find more information about the EGSC at www.egsc.psu.edu.
Nominations are now being accepted for the 2017-2018 ChE GSA executive board. Elections will be held online Monday, May 15 through Wednesday, May 17.
Please fill out the nomination form by Monday, May 1. You can nominate more than one person and you can nominate each person for more than one position.
The executive board positions that are available include President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary, Web Team Coordinator, and Laboratory Representative. The responsibilities for each position are listed below as well as in the ChE GSA Constitution:
Nominees will be expected to be present for a “Meet the Nominees” event on Monday, May 8. In the event a nominee cannot be present, the ChE GSA requests a brief statement of your qualifications and what you would like to accomplish as a member of the ChE GSA executive board.
Important Dates
May 1 – Nominations Due
May 8 – “Meet the Nominees”
May 15 – May 17 – Elections
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