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Awards to M.Eng. students

PEESE M.Eng. students were recognized with distinguished awards by the Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Shristi Varshney won the Fall 2020 Outstanding M.Eng. Project Award, in recognition of her research contribution to the sustainable campus energy systems project. The Spring 2020 Outstanding M.Eng. Project Award was bestowed to […]


Jiyao wins AIChE Award

Jiyao Gao, a PEESE graduate student, was selected to receive a Sustainable Engineering Forum Student Paper Award from AIChE this year. These student paper awards are presented to graduate students who published the best technical papers that describe results related to engineering and sustainability. Jiyao is one of the three […]


Daniel received awards

PEESE graduate student Daniel Garcia was selected to receive a 2018 Sustainable Engineering Forum Student Paper Award from AIChE. These student paper awards are presented to graduate students who published the best technical papers that describe results related to engineering and sustainability. Daniel is one of the three Student Award […]


Dajun to join Amazon

Dajun recently accepted an offer of Operations Research Scientist from Amazon.com. After completing his PhD in summer 2016, Dajun will move to Seattle and join a group of 30+ PhDs, including a number of chemical engineers, to optimize the supply chain and inventory management of the largest e-retailer in the […]


Dajun receives Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award

Congratulations to Dajun for earning the 2015 Distinguished Graduate Researcher Award, an honor bestowed on the most outstanding graduate researcher (one per year) in Northwestern’s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering! Dajun has been extremely productive in the past four years that published eleven first author papers and three co-authored […]


Yunfei joins ExxonMobil

Yunfei recently accepted a offer from ExxonMobil, and will move to Texas later this month to start his new job as a senior engineer. Congratulations, Yunfei!


Dajun receives CAST Student Travel Award

Dajun Yue, a PEESE graduate student, was selected to receive the CAST Student Travel Award from the CAST Division of AIChE. All nomination packages were reviewed by a committee of 4 CAST Officers, and the competition was stiff. Dajun is one of the 5 CAST Travel Grant winners this year. […]


Belinda to start as a Research Scientist at Honeywell

Belinda Wang, who will be graduating this November, has accepted a full-time position at Honeywell’s Buffalo Research Center as a Research Scientist. Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address tough challenges such as energy and sustainability. Belinda did her summer internship at Honeywell, and […]