News: CBE

Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk, assistant professor in the Experiential Engineering Education Department (ExEEd) in the Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering, has received the 2022 Distinguished Teaching Award for the Middle Atlantic Section of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The award honors an individual in each section, distinguished by region, dedicated to excellence in engineering education. As an organization, ASEE is committed to supporting faculty scholarship and innovative methods that develop pedagogical knowledge. Mallouk received her Bachelor of Science in chemical... Read more

Rong Yang among 11 Cornell assistant and associate professors who have recently received National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Read more

Fengqi You, the Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in Energy Systems Engineering in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, was elected as a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) by the AIChE Board of Directors. Read more

“There are design decisions such as how many solar panels or wind turbines to install, and how much energy storage capacity to build,” said Fengqi You. Read more

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has elected 111 new members and 22 international members, announced NAE President John L. Anderson today. This brings the total U.S. membership to 2,388 and the number of international members to 310. Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Read more

Two faculty members – studying topics ranging from reproductive performance in dairy cows to the introduction of living organisms into material design – are winners of 2022 Schwartz Research Funds for Women and Other Underrepresented Faculty in the Life Sciences.. Rong Yang, assistant professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in the College of Engineering, and Yi Athena Ren, assistant professor of Animal Science in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, each received a $25,000 award. Read more

Peter Harriott ‘49, an emeritus professor of chemical engineering who taught for 48 years at Cornell and co-authored the defining textbook on unit operations, died Sept. 23 in Ithaca. He was 94. Harriott joined the faculty of what was then the School of Chemical Engineering in 1953 and worked closely with some of the school’s founders, including professors Fred H. “Dusty” Rhodes and Julian Smith. Harriott spent the next 48 years teaching undergraduate and graduate chemical engineering students about process control, chemical reactor design, and membrane and synthetic fuels. He supervised... Read more

A new Cornell-led study identifies several keys to sustainably managing the influx, with an emphasis on battery chemistry, second-life applications and recycling. The study was led by Cornell Engineering Dean Lynden Archer, Systems field member Fengqi You and Systems Ph.D. student Yanqiu Tao. Read more

Fengqi You, Roxanne E. and Michael J. Zak Professor in the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC). Read more

Professor Alex Woltornist was named Director of the Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) program in the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) effective immediately. Director Susan Daniel sent the following message on August 13, 2021: Dear Students, It is my pleasure today to write you to report that Professor Alex Woltornist will become the next MEng Director. Alex takes this role over from Professor Jeff Varner who has selflessly led the MEng program, the Grad program, and ABET certification last year. Alex and Jeff will work together during this transition... Read more