Jay Keasling, a professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, will present at the third annual Chemical Engineering Distinguished Lecture. The lecture will be held on Wednesday, September 20 at 4:30pm in the Berg Auditorium (100 Life Science Building).
Learn more about Dr. Keasling through his faculty page and his group’s website.
The Materials Research Institute at Penn State is hosting the Safety Olympics on Tuesday, September 12, 12:00pm – 2:00pm during their “Safety Days of September” events. Teams can consist of 2-4 people. Registration is limited to one team per faculty PI and three teams per department.
Prizes include a Penn State football signed by head coach James Franklin, movie tickets, giftcards to Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Green Bowl, Sheetz, Irving’s, and Amazon, and much more.
Register for the Safety Olympics on the MRI website.
In addition to the Safety Olympics, Safety Days will host two guest safety speakers, Dr. Kimy Yueng (Dow Analytical Sciences) and Dan Vaughn (Corning Inc.). Yueng will speak before the Safety Olympics, 10:00pm – 11:00pm, in the 3rd Floor Commons of the Millennium Science Complex, while Vaughn will present on Thursday, September 14, 12:05pm – 1:05pm in rooom 101 Thomas Building.
Add these events to your calendar.
The 2017 Fall Career Fair will take place at the Bryce Jordan Center from Tuesday, September 12 through Thursday, September 14. Graduate students will be able to meet with over 450 different companies looking to hire STEM-majors.
Including the career fair, Penn State’s Career Services office will be hosting a number of events to prepare graduate students for the career fair. Relevant sessions, all held in room 103 Bank of America Career Services Center unless noted otherwise, include the following:
6:30pm – 7:30pm – Branding Yourself on Social Media (LinkedIn & more)
Print 10 Resumes for Free (while supplies last) – Copy Central, HUB
12:30pm – 1:30pm – Dress to Impress
4:00pm – 5:00pm – Finding Your Top 5 Orgs
5:15pm – 6:15pm – After the Handshake
6:30pm – 7:30pm – Disclosing Disabilities
12:30pm – 1:30pm – Tips for International and Graduate Students
4:00pm – 5:00pm – Resume Tips for Technical Majors
5:15pm – 6:15pm – Interviewing Tips for Technical Majors
1:00pm – 4:00pm – Resume Review
6:00pm – 8:00pm – Fall Engineering Networking Reception
The Fall Engineering Networking Reception gives engineering students and recruiters the opportunity to meet and mingle in an informal atmosphere prior to the Technical Recruiting Day at Fall Career Days. See a full list of employers attending.
11:00am – 4:00pm – Fall Career Days, Technical Full-Time – Bryce Jordan Center
The College of Engineering and the University Fellowships Office are hosting information sessions on applying for an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Each session will feature a panel that includes a previously successful NSF GRFP applicant and a CoE faculty member. The meeting will outline general application requirements and describe specific qualities of successful applications.
The times, dates, and locations of these sessions are as follows:
Thursday, August 31, 2:30 – 3:30pm in 202 Hammond Building
Thursday, August 31, 4:00 – 5:00pm in 202 Hammond Building
Tuesday, September 19, 3:00 – 4:00pm in 119 Kern Building
Thursday, September 21, 6:00 – 7:00pm in 125 Reber Building
Add these events to your calendar.
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)
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.
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