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Chemical Engineering Students are National Champions
A group of 10 ChE students won 1st place at the National AIChE ChemECar competition in which they had to power and control a car by a chemical reaction. Another group of 3 won the SACHE Student Design Competition for Safety in Design. See video of ChemECar competition (NU team at 7:00 minute mark).

Congratulations Robert Tillman
CEE Associate Professor Robert Tillman, has been selected to receive the best CEE division speaker award for his session “Discovering Magical Partnerships within Your Campus”. He will be recognized for this achievement at the annual CIEC conference in February.

Answering The Challenge
The National Academy of Engineering has issued the “Grand Challenges for Engineering” which includes restoration and maintenance of urban infrastructure. CEE Professors Sara Wadia-Fascetti and Ming Wang are leading the VOTERS (Versatile Onboard Traffic mbedded Roaming Sensors) project, which will develop onboard multi-sensor technology that will detect structural flaws in roads and bridges.

Congratulation Dogus Meric
Dogus Meric, a Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD student, won first place in the abstract competition held at the Northeast Geotechnical Graduate Research Symposium. His research is on remediation of contaminated sediments using a reactive mat.

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