Congratulations to Wayne Bequette for receiving the 2026 CA
Prof. Ji-Young Kim has been selected by the U.S. Chapter of the Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) as the recipient of the KIChE President Young Investigator Award. As a recipient of this award, she will be invited to present a research talk at the KIChE Open Forum during the 2026 AIChE Annual Meeting.
Prof. Helen Zha’s research group works to innovate new bio-inspired materials and processes that meet demands of the our modern day society while being environmentally benign from cradle to grave. Learn more about her research interests, as well as the important role that graduate and undergraduate students play in her group: https://youtu.be/Co5PL4-UFLA?si=mcyLhGZmRdXZwOJ9
The Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is proud to announce that Professor Mattheos Koffas has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — one of the highest honors the Institute bestows, reserved for members who have made outstanding, sustained contributions to the chemical engineering profession.
The graduation banquet for the CBE Class of 2026 and graduate students was held on Wednesday, May 13, 2026. Families, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate perseverance, growth, and the promise of new beginnings for our recent graduates.
At the banquet, the following prize winners were announced:
CBE continues to innovate the process design curriculum. At most universities, process design students are given a specific process with well-defined feedstock and product specifications. About 20 years ago, the faculty decided to take a different approach where each 4-person team proposes a process, slate of products, identifies the market, and chooses a plant location based on their strategy for engineering practice. Project phases include (i) technical scoping and assessment, (ii) preliminary design, (iii) preliminary economics, and (iv) final feasibility.
Thi Nguyen, a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been awarded a one-year graduate fellowship from the RPI Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR).
