Simply outstanding: Ļć½¶Ö±²„student chapter again receives AIChE honor
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.āFor the 18th time in the past 19 years, The American Institute of Chemical Engineers is honoring Mississippi State with the Outstanding Student Chapter Award.
MSUās student chapter is receiving the 2018-19 award for exceptional student and faculty participation, enthusiasm, program quality and variety, professionalism, and university and community involvement.
Bill B. Elmore, director and associate professor in MSUās Dave C. Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, said MSUās AIChE student chapter has received the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for 28 of the honorās 50 years in existence.
āThatās pretty incredible for any AIChE student chapterāespecially considering that the national AIChE office has traditionally only given the award to about 10 percent of the active student chapters annually,ā said Elmore, who holds the departmentās Earnest W. and Mary Ann Deavenport Jr. Chair.
The recognition was formally presented earlier this month in Orlando, Florida, at the annual student conference hosted by AIChE, the worldās leading organization for chemical engineering professionals.
MSUās student chapter is among more than 30 from around the world receiving this award.
Along with a plaque for the Ļć½¶Ö±²„chapter, AIChE presented certificates to 2018-19 co-presidents Kassidy B. Adams of Jackson, Missouri, and Andrew J. Weaver of Lorton, Virginia, both seniors in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering. Adams also received the AIChEās Donald F. and Mildred Topp Othmer Scholarship Award.
All chemical engineering majors, other Ļć½¶Ö±²„honorees include senior Isaac E. Clapp of Brandon, Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Academic Excellence Award; senior Deonante M. Frazier of Utica, Minority Affairs Committee Scholarship Award for College Students; sophomore Jacob Fisher of Olive Branch, Freshman Recognition Award; and senior Woodrow N. āWoodyā Wilson of Savannah, Tennessee, 2nd place in the Computing and Process Control II division for his poster āBinding of Lignin Dimers on MWW-2D Zeolite: Solvothermal Effect Study.ā
Julie Jessop, associate director and Hunter Henry Chair in the Swalm School of Chemical Engineering, is a professional member of the AIChE who was recognized for her work as the Ļć½¶Ö±²„student chapter adviser.
Congratulating Jessop and her students on this accomplishment, Ļć½¶Ö±²„Bagley College of Engineering Dean Jason Keith said, āI have been continuously amazed with the quality of student and faculty leadership in AIChE, and look forward to more great work from our chapter.ā
Like Elmore, Keith holds the departmentās Earnest W. and Mary Ann Deavenport Jr. Chair.
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