Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Words and Science: Chemical Engineering Major Angela Wnek ’13 is State Forensics Champion
Angela Wnek ’13 (Hoffman Estates, Ill.) is never at a loss for words. She puts that trait to good use, spending her weekends traveling to tournaments with Lafayette’s Forensics Society, where she can show off her talent for competitive speaking. At the Pennsylvania Forensic Association’s annual championship in February, Wnek won three individual state championships: [...]
Renewable Energy: Students Work to Find Cleaner Sources of Fuel
“Being a chemical engineer, I’m increasingly aware of the need to find renewable alternate sources of energy, not only because fossil fuels will eventually run out, but mainly because they have a destructive impact on the environment,” says Sherry-Ann Tim Kee ’12 (Port-Of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago). “The onus is on the current generation to find [...]
Mathew Pezon ’10: Hitting the Ground Running
By Matt Sinclair ’90 Some people like to hit the ground running when they start a new job. Mathew Pezon ’10 is the type who hits it at a sprint. A chemical engineering graduate, Pezon is a process engineer with Air Products in Allentown, Pa., where he interned between his junior and senior years. He [...]
Hallie Zeller ’12 and Kevin Ling ’12 Present at National Chemical Engineering Conference
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Hallie Zeller ’12 (Bridgewater, N.J.) likes to understand things, from how they work on the atomic level to what they’re like on gigantic scales. Mechanical engineering, she says, is the best way to gain this understanding. Zeller recently got to experience the field on a gigantic scale. She, along with Kevin [...]
Technology Clinic Applies Interdisciplinary Approach to Local Fish Farming
A Technology Clinic class is using the wide-ranging expertise of its members to make a fish-farming operation more economically and environmentally efficient. “The goal of Technology Clinic is to use the resources and background of five or six different students to help solve real-world problems. Currently, we are working with David Due in Roseto, Pa., [...]
Pew Charitable Trusts Officer Hank Cauley ’77 Improved Lives of Millions in Somalia
By Dan Edelen A million African women saved from countless hours scouring barren landscapes for firewood. Thousands of Australian aboriginals and aquaculturists who can now watch their farms and fishing grounds prosper. Hundreds of small town folks who know their children will play in backyards free of mining waste. A dozen artists in Philly who [...]
Students Make Contributions to Heart Surgery Technology
By Michele Tallarita ’12 Bridget Hentz ’12 (Ambler, Pa.) thought it was cool when some of her own ideas became part of the design of cutting-edge heart surgery technology. But it was even cooler, she says, to see the devices she helped design fired into a beating heart and doing exactly what they were supposed [...]
Students Design Portable Hydroelectric Power System for Severe Floods and Storms
When severe floods and storms knock out the electricity, the effects can range from a mild nuisance to the devastating inability to help victims reach safety and save lives. In those situations, there is one resource in spades — water. Thomas Benjamin ’12 (Norristown, Pa.), a double major in chemical engineering and government & law, and Elliott [...]
Students Learn from World-Class Scholars though Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Each semester, the Interdisciplinary Seminar Series in the Life Sciences brings six world-class scholars to campus to speak on a subject in their field. Guest lecturers last semester included Martin Chalfie, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; investigative reporter Brian Deer, who uncovered evidence showing that research linking childhood vaccines with autism was [...]
Professor Lauren Sefcik Anderson ’04 Knows Both Sides of the Lafayette Classroom
When her grandmother had knee replacement surgery, Lauren Sefcik Anderson ’04 was only in elementary school, but she remembers wanting to help. Though she had no idea what engineering even was, she was fascinated by her grandmother’s new knees. “I didn’t really understand why she needed new knees, but I remember thinking of it not [...]
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