Members of the Albert Nerken School of Engineering’s Department of Chemical Engineering recently presented at the 2024 AIChE Annual Meeting held in San Diego, CA, at the end of October. The annual event unites academic and industry researchers at all career stages to explore new research and topics at the forefront of the field. 

Two master’s students (Jared Sealy and Nada Shetewi) and four undergraduates (Isha Dave, Rachel Lee, Tausif Tamim, and Julius Yoh) presented posters while chemical engineering faculty members Ben Davis, Abhishek Sharma, and Jennifer Weiser all chaired sessions at the meeting. For her research on the electrochemical treatment of cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms, current master’s student and 2024 alumna Nada Shetewi placed first in the AIChE Environmental Division. She was also honored with the second best overall environmental poster award.

Senior Evelyn Schwartsman gave a talk entitled, “Integration of Flavor Analysis of Beer in a Chemical Engineering Laboratory,” highlighting the integration of more foundational courses into the Senior Chemical Engineering Laboratory curriculum. 

Cooper Brue, a popular engineering course that explores the science of brewing, entered AIChE’s Annual Beer Brewing Competition. The current class of students and faculty (Professor Sam Keene, Professor Jennifer Weiser, Ava Marzulli, Lizelle Ocfemia, Evelyn Schwartsman, Jasper Townsend, and guest brewer Jared Sealey) entered Cooper Brue’s Hefeweizen beer in the competition.