Grad Students: Professor Abukhdeir invites you to join himÌýin the Staff & Faculty Lounge for some coffee/tea*,Ìýcookies andÌýconversation.
* Please bring your own mug.
Interested in learning more about the fascinating researchÌýthat À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's chemical engineering graduate students are conducting? Now is your chance!
Join us at the Master's ResearchÌýColloquium, where master's students will present their research throughout the day.
POSTER SESSION: 9:15-10:15 amÌýin the 1st and 3rd floor atriums
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Session 1
Group A, Process Systems Engineering: E6 2024 10:30-11:30 am
Group B, Biochemical & Biomedical Engineering: E6 2022 10:30-11:15 am
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is a useful technique for studying electronic and structural properties of materials. When these measurements are performed in-situ, it is valuable to identify the reactive species and monitor the reaction kinetics. This could significantly improve our understanding of material property and advance the rational design of material with improved performance.
Grad Students: Please join Professor Abukhdeir in the Staff & Faculty Lounge for some coffee/tea*,Ìýcookies andÌýconversation.
* Bring your own mug. Coffee, tea and cookies areÌýon us.
Model based multi-parametric optimization provides a complete map of solutions of an optimization problem as a function of, unknown but bounded, parameters in the model, in a computationally efficient manner, without exhaustively enumerating the entire parameter space. In a Model-based Predictive Control (MPC) framework, multi-parametric optimization can be used to obtain the governing control laws – the optimal control variables as an explicit function of the state variables.
Supervisors: Aiping Yu, Chemical Engineering andÌýMichael Fowler, Chemical Engineering
Dr. Sameoto will provide an overview of several technologies developed by his lab. The techniques combine novel manufacturing processes to produce polymer-based products ranging from gecko-inspired adhesives to stretchable electronics and soft robotics.ÌýCombining different research disciplines, including micro- and nanofabrication, with larger scale 3D-printing technologiesÌýhas opened up new opportunities for the manufacturing of new smart materials, bio-inspired surfaces and wearable electronics.ÌýHighlights include direction sensitive adhesives for pick-and-place assembly, mechanically reprogrammable soft robots, and multi-material FDM additive manufacturing processes that can print hard plastics, rubbers and stretchable metal wires in a single part.
Supervisor: Michael Fowler, Chemical Engineering
The utilization of coal generates tons of solid waste, including fly ash and coal gangue, which occupies a huge amount of land and causes serious environmental problems, such as water and air pollution. In addition, the resource materials that remain in the solid waste, including Al, Si and Li, cannot be well utilized, which wastes resources. Our research focuses on the utilization of coal-based solid waste and a series of technologies that have been developed to undertake that work.
In the chemical process industry, the need to make decisions in a context of multiple and competing objectives is frequent. Thanks to advances in the field of operational research and systems science, several methods of multi-objective optimization have emerged that can be applied to chemical and biochemical engineering processes. These techniques incorporate the knowledge of an expert of a given process to the optimization routine, which provides valuable information about the domain of optimal solutions.