Three chemical engineering students at the University of Colorado at Boulder received top awards for technical papers they presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science regional meeting in Santa Fe, N.M., April 11-15.
The students won three of the five awards presented for technical papers at the AAAS Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division meeting. More than 100 technical papers were presented. The winning CU students and their awards are:
o Christopher Staab, a senior in chemical engineering from Westminster, won First Place in the undergraduate category for his paper titled, "Development of a Characterization Method for Novel Metallic Microfiltration Membranes." The paper was co-authored by Professors William Krantz and Alan Greenberg and Robert C. Herrmann of the Ellipsis Corp. in Boulder.
o David Huber, a senior in chemical engineering from Denver, won an outstanding paper award for "A Laboratory Apparatus for Growing Patterned Ground." The paper was co-authored by Rorik Peterson, a graduate student in chemical engineering, and Professor Krantz.
o Senthil Ramaswamy, a master's student in chemical engineering from India, won an outstanding paper award for "Fluoropolymer Membrane Fabrication via Thermally Induced Phase Separation." The paper was co-authored by Professors Greenberg and Krantz.
Krantz also received the President's Award at the meeting for his long-time involvement with the Southwestern AAAS as a past president, lecturer and for mentoring dozens of students entering the competition over the last 15 years.