Alumni Gazette - Chemical Engineering and Material Science

Senior Send Off to Honor Recent
Graduates!
Volume 7 | Issue 2
Summer 2015
Alumni Gazette
In This Issue
Ebola Research
2
CoE Distinguished
Alumni
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Senior Send-Off
4-5
Alumni Spotlight
6-7
Featured Undergrad 8
and Grad Students
J
Faculty Spotlight
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MASC Update
10
AIChE Update
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une 12th, 2015: CHMS faculty and staff joined students and their
families to celebrate the graduation of the Class of 2015. The joy-
ous occasion included a wide array of delicious food, festive decorations, and valuable photo opportunities. Parents and faculty alike
beamed proudly as students reminisced about the hard work and
great memories at UC Davis that contributed to their momentous
accomplishments with the lifelong friends they made along the way.
The synergy and mutual respect between faculty and students was
on full display during the ceremony. Faculty presented students
with awards for their exceptional achievements and academic excellence, while student organizations recognized faculty members for
their help and contributions that ensured student success.
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CHMS News
Davis Researchers Speed Up Ebola Drug Production
the whole plant being treated as a
“bioreactor” for the production of
the antibodies, the capacity of
production is highly limited. The
course of treatment with ZMapp
requires approximately 12 grams,
a fairly large dosage; thus, greater
scale production is crucial to increasing accessibility to the drug.
T
o date, over 11,000 lives
have been lost because of the
2014 Ebola outbreak. To respond
to this devastating outbreak, a
team of Davis faculty and students are working to develop a
process to speed up production of
the drug ZMapp, with funding
from the National Science Foundation’s RAPID program. Several
members of the team are from
CHMS, including principal investigator Prof. Karen McDonald, postdoctoral
scholar
Kalimuthu
Karuppanan, and Tyler Williams,
an undergraduate biochemical
engineering student from the
McDonald lab.
ZMapp, which has not yet been
approved by the FDA as it is only
now undergoing human clinical
trials, has been used to treat nine
Ebola patients on a compassionate use exemption. It was developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical
in collaboration with Defyrus,
Inc., the Public Health Agency of
Canada, and the United States Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases. Current production of ZMapp is done at a
Kentucky Bioprocessing, LLC
(KBP) facility in Owensboro, KY.
The drug is comprised of three
monoclonal antibodies (mAbs)
that bind to the glycoprotein on
the surface of the Ebola virus. The
antibodies are currently produced in a close relative of tobacco, Nicotiana benthamiana. With
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McDonald and her team are developing an alternative, analogous
process using traditional bioreactor systems, which have more
than ten times the capacity of the
method with the “whole plant bioreactor.” Once properly developed, benefits of this technology
are not merely limited to treating
Ebola—it could also be applied to
other
mAb-based
therapies.
McDonald expresses, “This type of
research has the potential for
high impact to solve real world
problems. Our ability to produce
therapeutics rapidly to respond to
infectious disease outbreaks has
The KBP facility in Owensboro.
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CHMS News
Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal
John Wasson (right) with Dean Lavernia.
William Milliken with his wife.
The College of Engineering at UC
Davis honors several of its most
outstanding graduates with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Medal (DEAM) each year. The Chemical
Engineering and Materials Science
Department is proud to announce
that two of this year’s five awardees are alumni of the department.
Both John Wasson and William Milliken are being recognized for their
professional achievements and service to the engineering community,
and have brought great honor to
the CHMS Department.
John Wasson, the President and
COO of ICF International, was
awarded the DEAM Award for
Business Achievement. After graduating from UC Davis in 1984 with a
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, he
went on to pursue and obtain an
M.S. in Technology and Policy from
the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology before joining ICF International where he worked in
varying capacities beginning from
1987 until 2010, when he was
named President of the company.
Every year, Wasson generously
become more important as global
travel has increased.”
medicine because of our research
strengths in these areas, our in-
UC Davis is continuously rising in
recognition as a topnotch facility
for both academics and research.
According to McDonald, “UC Davis
has unique advantages for research at the interface of plant
sciences (ranked #1 in the world),
biotechnology, engineering and
McDonald with the pilot-scale bioreactor.
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contributes to CHMS, enabling the
Department to make great strides
in providing students with excellent
resources and education.
William Milliken, a senior reservoir
engineer for Chevron, was honored with the DEAM Award in
Public Service. Since receiving his
Ph.D. from UC Davis in 1989, he
has been actively participating in
various public service projects. Milliken has been working to improve
the quality of life for underserved
populations around Tijuana and
Tecate for over twenty years. He
has also been involved in improving
K-12 STEM education by assisting
at afterschool science clubs.
The Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Department would
like to congratulate John Wasson
and William Milliken on their great
achievements and selfless accomplishments!
terdisciplinary team science culture, and strong collaborations
with industry.” Our unique facilities, such as the plant transformation facility, greenhouses and
controlled environment growth
chamber, genome center, and pilot-scale bioreactors, also contribute to our success as a worldrenowned research university.
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Senior Send Off & CHMS Annual Awards
Department Citations
Awarded for scholastic excellence in the
CHMS Department. The Citation is
reserved for students of true distinction
and is the highest academic honor
awarded to students of the department.
Child/Whitaker Scholarship
Awarded to a junior or senior on the
basis of academic merit in the Chemical
Engineering program.
Olaf Sorensen
Chemical Engineering:
Rhys Dylan Robles
Biochemical Engineering:
Kelsey Parsons
Materials Science & Engineering:
Niteesh Marathe
Phillips 66 Scholarship Award
Each year, Phillips 66 generously
donates scholarship money to reward
students who excel in chemical
engineering, selected by the CHMS
faculty.
Olaf Sorensen
Chevron Scholarship Award
Each year, Chevron generously donates
scholarship money to reward students
who excel in chemical engineering,
selected by the CHMS faculty.
Sarah Chow | Doniko Kingi
Allison Lo | Ryan McCormick
Bradley Petkus | Jenny Zhou
Alan Jackman Scholarship
The faculty of the CHMS Department
selects the award winners for this
scholarship on the basis of academic
merit to deserving chemical engineering
students.
Benjamin MacDonald
Theodore Sun
Kenmond Pang
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Malinda Cheung
Ethan Jensen
Johnny Zheng
John Wasson Study Abroad
Scholarship
CHMS alumnus John Wasson awards
two students, selected by the CHMS
department, on the basis of academic
and personal merit by supporting their
participation in a UC Davis Study
Abroad Program.
Christopher Lam
Kristopher Quon
Outstanding Biochemical
Engineering Scholarship
Awarded to an outstanding senior in the
Biochemical Engineering program.
Kathryn Mains
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Outstanding Senior of the Year
Awarded for meritorious service and
voluntary contributions to the CHMS
department.
Hilary Chan
Benjamin MacDonald
Cori Satkowski
Richard Anderson Award for
Best Student Design
Every spring quarter, Rich Anderson
generously donated his time to the
students of ECH 158C. We honor his
commitment and dedication to
education by presenting awards to
seniors for their design projects.
Victor Awad
MASC Faculty of the Year Award
Adam Moule
MASC TA of the Year Award
Brandon Saller
MASC Faculty Appreciation
Award
Julie Schoenung
AIChE Sophomore Academic
Excellence Award
Andy Huynh
Ravinderjeet Gill
Amar Husic
Jordan Provost
AIChE Freshman Recognition
Award
Randy Xie
CHMS Honors Graduates
Honors students work rigorously on
research with the guidance of CHMS
faculty for two years, culminating in a
senior thesis and presentation.
AIChE Faculty of the Year
Award
David Bilsky
Ron Phillips
Tony Ting Li
Cori Satkowski
Yang-Denis Su
AIChE TA of the Year Award
Zhimin Xie
Wade Zeno
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Young Alumnus Spotlight
summer internship at Phillips 66.
Both positions further reinforced
her desire to continue her career as a
chemical engineer. She finds the field of
chemical engineering to be challenging,
accompanied with great feelings of gratitude, satisfaction, and reward in the moment that the challenges are overcome.
Rose Damestani Alumna
Rose Damestani graduated from UC Davis in 2014 with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. After participating in the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) at UC Davis before her senior year of high school
and gaining exposure to chemistryrelated fields, she decided to pursue
chemical engineering in college. Through
COSMOS and industry tours, she learned
that chemical engineering would allow
her to do a job she enjoyed.
As an undergraduate, she was heavily
involved with the American Institute of
Chemical Engineers (AIChE) . She served
as an officer of the UC Davis student
chapter every year. As the chapter President during her junior and senior years,
Rose was responsible for coordinating
the Western Regional Student Conference in Davis in 2014, initiating the Industry Mentorship Program and the
AIChE Relay for Life Team, and increasing community outreach activities, such
as volunteering at elementary and middle school science fairs. She fondly recalls the friendships she made by enduring the rigorous chemical engineering
program, and the challenges she overcame with these life-long friends.
Since graduating, Rose has joined the
Operations Rotational Development Program at Genentech. For the first six
months of her job, she was a member of
the Pharmaceutical Technical Development Operational Excellence group. In
February, she began her second rotation
in the Pharmaceutical Technical Quality
Global Biologics; she is currently working on a global database that contains
shelf-life information and transport conditions for all Genentech products. Besides working, Rose is also a part-time
student at Stanford University, where
she is pursuing a Management Science
and Engineering certificate. She hopes to
eventually obtain an MS degree, and land
a position in management and leadership.
Outside of work and school, Rose has
remained an active member of AIChE at
the national level and has joined the
Young Professionals Committee (YPC),
for which she has been appointed the
In her junior year, Rose completed a one 2015 Annual and 2016 Spring Student
-year co-op with Genentech. She then Conference Coordinator. She also enjoys
explored the oil industry by completing a reading, volunteering, playing the piano,
“Understanding what motivates you is the
best way to set yourself up for a successful
and fulfilling career.”
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learning new languages, and
traveling.
Inspired by figures such as
Sheryl Sandberg and Malcolm
Gladwell, Rose lives by a quote
from the latter: “Those three
things—autonomy, complexity
and a connection between effort and reward—are, most
people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is
to be satisfying. It is not how
much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It’s whether our work fulfills us.”
Rose has some very simple yet
sagacious advice herself for students who hope to achieve the
same level of success: “It is very
helpful to slow down once in a
while and think about where
you are, what you have accomplished, and where you want to
go from there. Learning about
yourself and understanding
what motivates you is the best
way to set yourself up for a successful and fulfilling career.”
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Seasoned Alumnus Spotlight
Ken Ouimet Alumnus
Co-written by Kacie Ouimet
Ken Ouimet, an entrepreneur with
passions for chemical engineering and
mathematical modeling, is back in Davis to work on his revolutionary startup: Engage3. He believes that this
company has the potential to revolutionize the agricultural industry and
the interaction between manufacturers, retailers, and consumers. Ouimet
is excited for what’s to come with Engage3 and is ecstatic to be building
such a great company back at his roots
in Davis.
From a very early age, Ouimet possessed a unique sense of creativity and
entrepreneurial spirit. His parents,
Colleen and Roger, encouraged this as
they began a company of their own:
Comparative Prices International.
Their business helped retailers understand their competitor’s product pricing. Ouimet and his younger brother,
Tim, were highly involved within the
company, which helped them understand the process of starting and managing a company. At the same time,
Ouimet found his passion for chemical
engineering; he began to use his parents’ garage as a laboratory for chemistry experiments. He recruited other
brilliant kids to join his research
group, and together, they built a
“company” to order supplies from
chemical catalogs. Ouimet had a wide
variety of entrepreneurial experiences—from helping out his parents’ company, to mischievously working his
way around rules and restrictions.
Ouimet graduated from UC Davis
in 1990. While a student, he
worked four jobs strategically
placed around his class schedule,
and saved money on a bike by
buying the cheapest one available; no one ever stole it, and he
never needed to lock it up. As a
struggling college student, his
living situation was almost comical: his home was a garage in an
east Davis house, which was featured in the Davis Enterprise,
deeming their landlord as a “Slum
Lord” for exploiting broke student renters. However, Ouimet
disagreed with this sentiment,
stating that this slightly unusual
living situation allowed him to
sacrifice for and successfully follow his dreams.
After his time at UC Davis, Ouimet
“We plan to
put some
muscle behind
Adam Smith’s
invisible
hand.”
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focused on theoretical work for his
Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara. His passion
began to shift from theoretical work to
economic modeling as he became increasingly interested in retail prices.
Ouimet wanted to use economic modeling to predict how stores would price
their products, which could build on
many of the aspects of his parents’ company and help to work alongside their
business as well. From this revelation,
he and his brother began their first
company: Khimetrics—which was credited with launching the Retail Price Optimization Industry. Their business
grew exponentially and was placed in
Fortune’s 25 “Companies to Watch.”
Khimetrics was successfully acquired
by SAP in 2006.
The Ouimet brothers took their passions and used them as fuel to create
their current company: Engage3. This
incredible company empowers consumers with personalized shopping lists
while providing retailers and manufacturers with a new pricing model that is
profitable and sustainable; in his words,
“We plan to put some muscle behind
Adam Smith’s invisible hand.” Bob Medearis, a Davis local and the founder of
Sailicon Valley Bank, has become a
great mentor to Ken; Medearis convinced him to relocate the company’s
former San Francisco headquarters to
Davis. He saw Silicon Valley grow up
around Stanford and believes that Davis
has that same potential. Ouimet hopes
that Engage3 and UC Davis can grow a
strong connection and help to provide
students with opportunities to learn
from an inspiring and fast-paced company.
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Featured Students
Lauren Hughes Graduate Student
Materials Science PhD candidate Lauren
Hughes was raised in Fremont, CA, and
obtained her B.S. in Chemistry and B.A. in
English Literature from Mills College in
Oakland. She interned at Sandia National
Laboratory and conducted research in
hydrogen embrittlement of steel and
aluminum for three years.; her
experiences in the field led her to pursue
a PhD in Materials Science.
For her graduate degree, Lauren chose
UC Davis, which she had considered
attending for undergrad, because she
loved the campus and the work of the
Materials Science faculty had piqued her
interest. As a member of Klaus van
Benthem’s group, Lauren conducts
research on strontium titanate, an oxide
ceramic present in capacitors. She creates
strontium titanate bicrystals in order to
view the grain boundary of selected
orientations. By observing the impacts of
an applied electrostatic field on the grain
boundary—whether there are changes,
and if so, whether those changes can be
controlled—there is the potential to
manipulate high energy storage capacitors
for their use in energy technology.
Lauren was recently awarded the highly
prestigious National Science Foundation’s
Graduate Research Fellowship. With this
award, she hopes to enhance her research
opportunities and expand her horizons by
traveling to Japan or Tennessee to work
with one of the two experts and world
leaders in bicrystal formation and
quantitative transmission electron
microscopy.
As is the case with most graduate
students, Lauren felt overwhelmed in her
first year. However, after getting her
bearings, passing her qualifying exam, and
receiving the NSF GRFP award, she has
grown more confident in her decision to
pursue a PhD in Materials Science and has
a clearer vision of her career trajectory.
When she completes the PhD program,
Lauren plans to continue working as a
research scientist as she loves the
freedom of research and the level of
creativity that is allowed (and required) in
initiating her own projects. She hopes to
secure a post-doctoral position
somewhere abroad—ideally in
Europe—for a few years to gain
new perspective and cultural
experiences, both inside and
outside the laboratory.
Outside of academia, Lauren has
several passions. She will read
anything she can get her hands
on—from cereal boxes to highbrow Victorian literature—and
flexes her creative writing skills by
composing short stories. She also
recently started her own garden,
which produces an overabundance
of vegetables!
Jordan Provost Undergraduate Student
different career paths, he fell in love with
chemistry, physics, and engineering in
Jordan Provost is a senior pursuing a
general, largely inspired by Dr. Ron Rusay
major in Chemical Engineering and minor
(a professor at DVC) and his passion for
in Technology Management. Raised in
science.
Walnut Creek, CA, he took a rather
untraditional route to UC Davis. Immedi- The College of Engineering’s strong
ately after high school, Jordan’s love for reputation for sculpting engineers with
learning new skills led him to join the practical skills and applicable experience
workforce where he gained knowledge in heavily influenced Jordan’s decision to
a variety of fields. He worked as a transfer to UC Davis. He was impressed
paintball gun technician and referee, by the faculty who managed to juggle
handyman, cook, fishmonger, and restau- groundbreaking research and teaching, and
rant manager before returning to school still made extraordinary efforts to remain
at Diablo Valley College. While exploring available to students outside of class.
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Faculty Spotlight
Sabyasachi Sen Materials Science
Materials Science Professor Sabyasachi Sen
obtained his B.S. in 1987 and M.S. in 1989
from the University of Calcutta. He then
traveled to Texas for a second Master’s
from the University of Houston, which he
obtained in 1991, and he received his
Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1995.
Initially, he had no special inclination for
materials science; he entered college as an
earth science major, but when he began
studying minerals and fossils, he started
thinking about how such materials were
made. Intrigued by how ubiquitous glasses
are and how they are actually not solids
but liquids flowing very slowly, he wanted
to learn more about how and why glasses
form and function the way they do.
Sen’s research group, the Amorphous
Materials Research Group, aims to
develop atomic-level understanding of the
physical chemistry of glass transition. Their
research explores why amorphous
materials and glasses behave in certain
ways when experimental conditions are
applied (e.g. changes in temperature and
pressure, electric fields, shined lights, etc.)
When choosing a major to pursue, the
versatility of chemical engineering
appealed to Jordan. In his words,
“Chemical engineers can do anything.”
He has found the curriculum to be a
healthy challenge, motivating him to
become more dedicated to his work
and accomplish more than he thought
he was capable of. Aside from coursework, Jordan conducts research on the
physics of coffee brewing with Dr. Bill
Ristenpart. He also recently became a
member of the engineering honors
society Tau Beta Pi.
Although he very much enjoys teaching,
the greatest aspect of being a professor is
the ability to do research on problems of
his choice. According to Sen, “Without
research or reading or learning, life would
be very dull.”
For Sen, the highlights of his career thus
far were successfully transitioning from
being a professor of materials physics to a
scientist at Corning Inc., and subsequently
returning to academic research eleven
years ago when he joined CHMS. One of
his greatest personal achievements in
research was when he presented on
hidden similarities between two competing
theoretical models to theoretical physicists in Germany. When they said, “It lacks
mathematical rigor but the physics is
correct,” he had never felt so relieved—it
was easily one of the highest compliments
he had ever received.
Sen feels a great sense of gratification
when his work gets cited, when his
colleagues tell him they enjoyed one of his
talks, and when his students get results
that can address long-standing problems in
However, he is most often associated
with the Chem-E-Car Team, an
undergraduate design team that is
tasked to build a small car powered
and stopped by chemical reactions
which competes each year at the
AIChE student conferences. As this
year’s team coordinator, he has seen
each member grow in his or her ability
to apply concepts learned in their
courses to solve a real-life problem.
Jordan’s capstone project group also
recently won the Rich Anderson
Award for Best Student Design.
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the field. Of course, he is also
immensely proud when he gets
to shake his students’ hands as
they graduate, and when they
tell him they received job
offers.
In his spare time, Sen enjoys
traveling the world, cooking, a
bit of gardening, and watching
professional soccer—especially
when Brazilian players do tricks
that showcase the full potential
of the sport. In coming years,
his colleagues and students can
expect collaboration, collegiality, fairness and healthy criticism
from him.
Jordan is interested in pursuing a
career in sustainable energy technologies, with the intention of returning to
school for a graduate degree after
working in industry for a short time.
He insists that our generation bears
the responsibility of developing
technologies that support sustainability
in order to help humanity thrive for
the foreseeable future, and hopes to
make contributions to these efforts. In
his eyes, “we don’t own the Earth, we
are only renting.”
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CHMS News
MASC Spring Recap
MASC (Materials Advantage Student
Chapter) at Davis began their busy
spring quarter with Decision Day on
April 11. High school seniors admitted into the Materials Science and
Engineering (MSE) major were invited to an informational session full of
demonstrations and lab tours. Dean
Lavernia, Professors Risbud and
Schoenung, undergraduate program
advisor Eugenia Luu, and several
MASC students spoke about their
experiences at Davis to convince the
sixty or so students and families to
choose UCD. The session was very
well received, with a parent even
emailing MASC to say, “This is my
third kid to go to college so I have
been to many of these tours, and
yours was just outstanding, in a totally different category. All of you
sold Davis and the program using
facts and not hype, and you all came
across as very genuine and sincere.”
The following week, MASC performed their third annual Picnic Day
show. Although the show is still titled “MASC Magic Show,” once it begins, the doors are closed, the lights
are turned off, and the audience is
told they are not about to see a magic show, but rather a first-hand look
at the “Super Materials League,” a
top-secret agency geared towards
creating weapons and defense for
well-known super heroes. The show
consisted of several demonstrations,
including: the effects of hard and soft
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metals against Thor’s hammer, LEDs
dipped in liquid nitrogen, and the
power of a laser. The Hulk even
stood on wine glasses to demonstrate the strength of the material!
The show was a huge hit for audience members of all ages.
On April 25, MASC partnered with
Chicano and Latino Engineers and
Scientists Society (CALESS) and several other engineering clubs to perform some of the demos from Decision Day and Picnic Day at CALESS
Science Extravaganza. The event
aims to promote STEM for middle
and high school students in Woodland.
MASC also participated in Relay For
Life, held on the weekend of May 16
in the ARC Pavilion. The annual
event serves to remember and pay
tribute to those who are suffering or
have passed away from cancer.
MASC began fundraising in February
and raised even more money during
the event by renting out board
games to the many participants looking for entertainment during the 24hour event.
At the end of the quarter, MASC hosted an end of the year BBQ (May 29)
for all the dedicated members who
put in so much voluntary time and
effort at various events throughout
the year. They also celebrated their
graduating seniors by helping with
Senior Send-Off on June 12. MASC
wished all the graduates the best of
luck in their future endeavors!
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CHMS News
AIChE Spring Recap
The Davis student chapter of AIChE
(American Institute of Chemical
Engineers) began a very busy spring
quarter with their First General
Meeting and the UC Davis AIChE
Annual NorCal dinner. Bob Katin,
founder of Katin Engineering
Consulting,
spoke
about
his
professional
journey
through
various industries: from the Navy to
engineering in private industry, to
management of plants. He inspired
students with his story and taught
them that chemical engineering
skills empower individuals with the
ability to succeed in many fields.
The club continued with other
traditions, such as the Junior and
Senior Retreats in Lake Tahoe, an
exciting chance for the students to
bond in the great outdoors during
their final years. Per usual, their
offerings at Picnic Day were a huge
hit, with the alumni barbeque
reaching its highest attendance ever,
and the kids craft booth seeing
similar popularity. The liquid
nitrogen ice cream booth set
records, too—with over 100
volunteers and over 4000 visitors
served, the booth was rewarding for
both the members serving the ice
cream and the visitors who waited
in hour-long lines.
In April, members traveled to Cal
Poly Pomona for the annual AIChE
Student
Western
Regionals
Conference.
The
Davis
team
triumphed during the Chem-E-Car
competition, taking first place for
their chemically-powered car! The
team will have the opportunity to
travel to Salt Lake City in November
to compete at the AIChE 2015
Annual Meeting.
The annual Picnic with Professors
was also a great success, with
student
attendance
almost
quadrupling from last year. Students
were given a great opportunity to
bond with their Professors while
enjoying the spring weather and
some delicious food. Later in the
quarter, AIChE also organized
Professor Game Night, an evening of
food, board games, and socializing
with professors.
AIChE finished up the year with a
general meeting in which candidates
gave speeches before people voted
on officers for the 2015-2016 school
year. Their annual Kronecker Delta
Tournament—an opportunity to golf
and network with professors and
industry representatives—and their
7th annual Iron Chef competition, in
which students teamed up with
professors to cook for a judging
panel comprised of other professors.
They honored their senior graduates
at the CHMS Senior Send-Off on June
12. They bid their seniors farewell
and celebrated all their hard work in
the last few years before wishing
them luck as they continue their
journeys.
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Alumni Connections
Calling all Alumni!
The CHMS website has been updated with richer yet simplified
content for both current and prospective students as well as alumni. The URL is: http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu
One special feature is the alumni page:
http://chms.engineering.ucdavis.edu/alumni/index.html
Featured on the alumni page are labeled photos of all graduating
classes back to 1976! Here you can have a look at your graduation
photo, find other alumni, and post information about yourself.
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