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THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 1

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

2010 Annual Report

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Department Head’s Message from Dr. Bamin Khomami

A chemical engineering curriculum at the University of Tennessee traces its origins back to the 1905 undergraduate catalog, where a separate graduation track toward the B.S. degree appeared for the first time. The Department of Chemical Engineering was officially established in 1936, and was one of the first four chemical engineering programs accredited in the Southeast region of the country. This year marks the 75th anniversary of our department, and as such, it is a perfect time to pause and reflect on our 75 years of educating students.

Throughout the 20th century, and now well into the 21st, our department has continued to excel at educating students in contemporary chemical engineering practice, not only as skilled technicians, but as leaders and innovators as well. At present, we believe that we remain true to our core mission, as always, and that the department is well positioned to continue the success of the past seven and a half decades well into the present century; indeed, we are now stronger than ever before.

Needless to say, there have been significant changes to our core curriculum over the years as our discipline has evolved. A substantial portion of these changes has occurred during the past five years, especially with regard to recent trends in chemical engineering practice which require an additional biological focus over the traditional curriculum. Our department has embraced

this disciplinary evolution through the addition of a Biomolecular Engineering Concentration, and is reflected in our name change to Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2007. Our department’s undergraduate curriculum is thus stronger than ever, and currently over 200 undergraduate students are enrolled in our program for the first time in 10 years.

The department’s research portfolio and productivity has also increased substantially from levels of five years ago. Research funding and expenditures dwarf those of the preceding five-year period, and the number of graduate students has risen to 43, up significantly (~200%) from its near term lows.

Many initiatives are currently underway to expand our elective course offerings, given the recent expansion of our department by five new faculty members. We are also vigorously pursuing the renovation and upgrading of our Unit Operations Laboratory, with significant financial investment from the department, the college and private donors. We have already begun the first phase of this obligation, and hope to finish the process within the next three years.

I am now in my fifth year as department head, and I am proud of the record that our department has achieved in this short period of time. The efforts of many people have been combined into a synergistic

Bamin KhomamiArmour T. Granger and Alvin & Sally Beaman

Distinguished University Professor and Head of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

mixture of enthusiasm, passion, responsibility and the academic ideal. I am honored to be associated with the colleagues, alumni and friends, on this, our 75th anniversary, who have helped to enable these changes during recent years, raising our standards of excellence with regard to research profile and productivity, as well as educational curriculum.

“Throughout the 20th century, and now well into the 21st, our department has continued to excel at educating students in contemporary chemical engineering practice, not only as skilled technicians, but as leaders and innovators as well.”

Department Head’s Message Dr. Bamin Khomami

Reflections on 75 Years of Chemical Engineering Dr. John Prados

New Faculty: Dr. Cong Trinh

Outstanding Graduate Student: Qifei Wang

Outstanding Undergraduate Student: David Flowers

Outstanding Alumnus: Malcolm Colditz

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COE Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Lawrence R. Pratt

CBE Board of Advisors

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75 Years of Chemical Engineering at the University of Tennessee

Alumni, faculty and staff celebrate the ChE’s 50th anniversary in 1986

Dr. Boarts (right) and Dr. John Prados (left) with an analog computer in 1960.

An Interview with Dr. John Prados

For over half a century, Dr. John W. Prados has played a significant role in the history of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Tennessee.

Prados earned his B.S. in chemical engineering at the University of Mississippi and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees with majors in chemical engineering at the University of Tennessee.

He began his academic career in the chemical engineering department as a graduate assistant in 1953. Until 1964, the chemical and mechanical engineering departments were located in Estabrook Hall, an old building that had been built in several stages. Prados’ research laboratory and office as a

faculty member were in the “new wing,” which was built in 1904. The oldest part of the building had once been a foundry, and the department made use of its high headroom for the unit operations laboratory, which housed a distillation column, spray dryer and other tall equipment. Adjacent to this laboratory was a well-equipped machine shop presided over by E. H. “Chief” Honeycutt, where much of the department’s research equipment was fabricated. Honeycutt would make periodic trips to the government surplus warehouse in Nashville, where needed materials could be obtained at minimal cost.

“When I arrived in 1953, Dr. Boarts, the founding department head, was on leave spending a year in industry with the DuPont Company. Dr. E. E. Stansbury, a metallurgy professor, served as acting department head that year. The other faculty members were

professors H. J. Garber, H. F. Johnson, S. H. Jury and F. N. Peebles in chemical engineering; A. D. Brasunas in metallurgy; and R. J. Kieber, jointly appointed in chemical engineering and microbiology. Dr. Brasunas left after my first year in graduate school and was replaced by Dr. W. O. Harms,” Prados said. “Most of the graduate students had desks in a large room at the east end of the main floor of Estabrook Hall. This was right next to the university heating plant (now Pasqua Engineering Building), and a large open concrete coal bin with a bucket conveyer that carried coal to the boilers. Even with the windows closed, coal dust filtered into the room, and each morning our desks were covered with a fine black film. Occasionally the bottom of the coal pile would catch fire spontaneously, and the smoke added another layer of soot. Physical Plant employees would try to extinguish the fire with water, which generated hydrogen and carbon monoxide,

burning even more vigorously. The only way to put the fire out was to empty the coal bin and expose the burning coal to enough water to extinguish the fire.”

Even under less than ideal conditions, however, the young engineers found ways to improve their environment.

“Heat in the summer was often oppressive, and none of the UT buildings were air conditioned. When I arrived, the only air conditioned spaces on the campus were the president’s office, the law library and Dr. E. E. Stansbury’s calorimetry laboratory in Estabrook hall, where the experiments required a constant temperature,” Prados recalled. “I began my research project on flow visualization under Professor F. N. Peebles with support from the Office of Naval Research. The fluids I was using were colloidal suspensions of

1905 A chemical engineering curriculum first appears in the UT catalog. The curriculum is a mixture of mechanical engineering and industrial chemistry courses.

1932 Dr. Harry A. Curtis, the chief chemical engineer at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), impresses upon UT President James B. Hoskins the importance of establishing a chemical engineering program at UT, reportedly saying “Mr. President, you offer a chemical engineering program, but I would not hire any of its graduates.” Hoskins and Curtis agree that TVA will pay half the salary of a chemical engineering professor at UT who will work part-time for the agency.

1934 Dr. Robert M. Boarts is recruited to UT from the University of Michigan (where he had just received his Ph.D. under the legendary W. L. Badger) to develop a chemical engineering program in cooperation with the Tennessee Valley Authority. He was initially based in the Department of Chemistry where he instituted chemical engineering courses and organized a curriculum.

1935 Graduate work in chemical engineering is initiated, leading to the degree of Master of Science. Research in support of the TVA fertilizer development program is funded by TVA and facilitated by a well-equipped machine shop supervised by E. H. Honeycutt (known as “Chief”), with salary initially partially supported by TVA.

1936 The UT Board of Trustees approves the establishment of the Department of Chemical Engineering (ChE) at UT within the College of Engineering, initially housed in Estabrook Hall.

1939 The first group of chemical engineering students graduate. The chemical engineering program is accredited by the Engineers’ Council for Professional Development (ECPD) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), making it one of the first four chemical engineering programs in the South to receive accreditation; the other three were at Georgia Tech, Louisiana State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

1946 Chemical engineering research at UT expands rapidly after World War II with the opening of the Atomic Energy Commission facilities at Oak Ridge to peacetime use. New, research-oriented faculty are hired, including H. J. Garber, H. F. Johnson, S. H. Jury and F. N. Peebles in chemical engineering and E. E. Stansbury and W. O. Harms in metallurgy.

1947 Metallurgy becomes an option in the chemical engineering program. Options are also offered in microbiology and nuclear processes.

1952 The UT Board of Trustees approves Ph.D. programs in chemical engineering and in metallurgy – the first engineering doctoral programs in Tennessee. The first chemical engineering Ph.D. graduate, Dr. Frank Chance, spent his professional career with Pfizer.

1956 The department’s name is changed to the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering, offering separate degree programs in chemical engineering and metallurgical engineering. The microbiology option had been discontinued, because the key faculty member, jointly appointed in chemical engineering and microbiology, had taken an industrial position.

1957 Chemical engineering work in nuclear processes is transferred to a new Department of Nuclear Engineering.

1960 The department obtains a sophisticated electronic analog computer through an industrial grant, providing support for instruction and research. Research in the area of process dynamics and control is initiated by Dr. J. W. Prados with support from ORNL, and expanded by Dr. C. F. Moore, who joined the department in 1969 when Dr. Prados left to accept an administrative appointment.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the TVA Act (1933)

Dr. E. Eugene Stansbury who developed the college metallurgy department

President Harry S. Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 establishing the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission


an organic dye, ‘milling yellow,’ which revealed stress patterns in polarized light, but were very sensitive to temperature changes. Hence, we were able to use the Navy funds to purchase an air conditioner for my lab. Needless to say, I spent a lot of time there!”

Prados remembered a wonderful camaraderie among the young engineering students.

“The chemical engineering and metallurgy graduate students formed a close-knit group, leading to many great friendships. We brought our lunches every day and played bridge from noon until 1:00 pm. Morning and afternoon coffee breaks were in a small café known as Eva’s across the street under the East stadium stands,” Prados commented. “The coffee was usually terrible–we claimed that football players’ dirty socks were added to the grounds to give it ‘body.’ Departmental social events

included a ‘Flower Picking Party’ at a local park in the fall featuring beer and touch football, and the Annual Spaghetti Supper held in the chemical engineering laboratory at which students and faculty presented skits good-naturedly lampooning each other. At the Spaghetti Supper, the Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts Award was presented by the shop staff to the graduate student who had devised the most complex equipment to perform the simplest task.”

Prados has fond memories of Boarts, the “founding father” of the UT chemical engineering department.

“He was a person with broad interests and vision, who had the ability to recognize and nurture the talents of the faculty he attracted to join the department. Dr. Boarts was a brilliant individual and something of a character. He wore ties with unusual colors and abstract

designs (all faculty members wore ties in those days). He was known to students and faculty alike as ‘Pappy,’ but never to his face. He had the habit of looking at the floor as he walked around ancient Estabrook Hall; students said he was looking for money to relieve the department’s perennial poverty. In fact, he was a highly successful fund-raiser long before the university as a whole adopted a centralized development program,” Prados said. “He regularly obtained graduate fellowships and equipment grants from industry, and in 1960 was able to purchase, through private funds, a fairly sophisticated (for those days) electronic analog computer–one of the first in a chemical engineering department in the U.S. In the required senior chemical engineering seminars, he brought in art and music faculty members as lecturers, and he provided background readings on significant foreign policy issues for discussion in some of the seminar sessions.

He believed strongly in the importance of a liberal education for the engineer, and he was unwilling to limit that education to a few electives in the humanities and social sciences.”

Prados also remembers other outstanding faculty members, including Professor Harold J. Garber, who was a principal architect of the chemical engineering doctoral program; Dr. James L. White, who in cooperation with professors D. C. Bogue, E. S. Clark, and J. F. Fellers, led the development of a strong program of graduate research and education in polymer engineering; Dr. E. Eugene Stansbury, who laid the foundation of the current Department of Materials Science and Engineering; and Dr. Charles F. Moore, who developed strong graduate and undergraduate programs in process control, based on close interactions with industry, including a noteworthy

relationship with Eastman Chemical Company that led to a process control internship program for UT chemical engineering seniors that continues today.

Prados was significantly involved in the planning and construction of the Dougherty Engineering Building, the current home of the CBE department.

“Dr. Boarts complained regularly about the department’s ancient quarters, but the university’s planned new engineering building never rose high enough on the capital priority list to receive construction funds. Finally, in the late 1950s, an architect’s rendering of the new engineering building was prepared. Dr. Boarts posted it on the departmental bulletin board along with a caption, ‘When Estabrook Hall gets old.’ Sadly, he never got to see the new building. Construction began shortly after he died in the summer of 1960,” Prados said. “Several

Dr. John Prados (center) at the announcement of the John W. Prados Professorship at the 2010 College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards Dinner with (from left) donors Malcolm and Harriet Colditz, COE Department Head Dr. Bamin Khomami and COE Senior Development Director Dorothy Bryson.


1960 Following Dr. Boarts’ sudden death, Dr. Homer F. Johnson is named department head. During his 24-year tenure, chemical engineering grows from 6 professors to one of the larger departments in the engineering college.

1964 The department moves into new space in the Dougherty Engineering Building.

1976 Masters and doctoral programs in polymer engineering are added in the department, led by Dr. James L. White in cooperation with professors D. C. Bogue, E. S. Clark and J. F. Fellers. The department’s name is changed to Department of Chemical, Metallurgical and Polymer Engineering.

1980 Dr. C. F. Moore develops a relationship with Eastman Chemical that leads to a senior process control internship that is still continuing today.

1984 Dr. Johnson retires and the department is split, with polymer and metallurgical engineering now offered in the new Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Dr. Joseph J. Perona is named head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and Dr. Joseph E. Spruiell, educated as a metallurgist, but contributing to the poly mer engineering program, is named head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

1990 Dr. John W. Prados succeeds Dr. Perona as department head for chemical engineering.

1991 With support from the DuPont company, Dr. R. M. Counce and Professor Emeritus John M. Holmes establish a capstone design internship program focused on pollution prevention. The program has continued to the present with support from the DuPont, Dow Chemical and Eastman Chemical companies and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

1992 Mike Harris, a research engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering at UT.

1993 Dr. Prados returns to full-time faculty service and is succeeded by Dr. C. F. Moore as department head.

1997 The Science and Engineering Research Facility is dedicated; several ChE faculty members move into new lab spaces.

1998 Dr. Moore returns to full-time faculty service and is replaced by Dr. John R. Collier from Louisiana State University, the first chemical engineering department head who had not previously served as a UT faculty member.

2006 Dr. Collier accepts a position at Florida State University and is replaced as department head by Dr. Bamin Khomami from Washington University at St. Louis. Dr. Khomami is also named the Armour T. Granger and Alvin and Sally Beaman Distinguished University Professor.

Dr. Joseph J. PeronaChemical Engineering professor Jim White (left) and Don Bogue (right)



of us from the chemical and mechanical engineering faculties worked on a committee with the university architect, Mr. Malcolm Rice, to plan the building space. The contract was awarded to the Knoxville firm of Johnson and Galyon. As I recall, the overall cost was in the neighborhood of $2.5 million, and the cost of the additions was only $12.70 per square foot! The new building was named for Dean Nathan W. Dougherty and housed, in addition to chemical and mechanical engineering, which moved from Estabrook Hall, the Department of Nuclear Engineering and the national offices of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, both of which moved from Perkins Hall.”

Prados has played a major role both at UT and nationally in revitalizing and restructuring engineering education. His involvement with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) activities led to work

in engineering accreditation through the Engineers’ Council for Professional Development (ECPD), which later became the current engineering accreditation organization, ABET, Inc.

“I served as chair of the ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission in 1984-85 and as president of ABET in 1991-92. These positions gave me the opportunity to observe engineering education at a number of schools, and to interact with the ABET Industry Advisory Board, made up of engineering leaders from industry with a deep interest in engineering education,” Prados commented. “It became apparent to me that there was a serious disconnect between the kind of engineering education we were providing in most schools and the intellectual skills needed by our graduates entering engineering practice. Even more disturbing was the observation that the few engineering schools offering really innovative

programs oriented towards the needs of practice were having difficulty maintaining ABET accreditation because of its highly restrictive accreditation criteria. This led me to work through ABET to develop more flexible accreditation criteria and with the engineering education programs of the National Science Foundation, and as editor of the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education, to encourage development of more innovative and practice-relevant educational models.”

Prados also worked with former Dean Jerry Stoneking and other faculty members to establish the college’s unique and highly successful Engage Freshman Engineering Program in 1997.

In April of 2010 at the college’s Faculty and Staff Awards Dinner, Prados received the Nathan W. Dougherty Award, which was established by the College of Engineering

in 1957 to pay tribute to Dean Dougherty. The award honors engineers whose accomplishments have enhanced the profession and alumni whose activities have brought acclaim to the university.

“I remember Dean Dougherty well. The Dougherty Award is especially meaningful to me, because I am one of the very few people in the College of Engineering who actually served under Dean Dougherty. During 1955-56, his last year as dean, I was a half-time instructor in chemical engineering, still working on my Ph.D.,” Prados recalled. “Dean Dougherty also approved my full-time appointment as assistant professor for the next fall, but he retired before that position began. During my service as Associate Dean of Engineering (1969-71), I used to see Dean Dougherty frequently, because we both had offices in Perkins Hall, and he came to his almost every day. As far as my feelings

on receiving the award, I can only say that I was overwhelmed! We don’t do volunteer professional work in the hope of recognition, but it is really great when you get such a wonderful ‘Thank You!’”

On that same evening, Dr. Bamin Khomami, CBE department head and Granger and Beaman Distinguished University Professor, announced the establishment of the John W. Prados Professorship. The professorship was created by Malcolm Colditz (BS/ChE ’58) and augmented by J. Michael Stone (BS/ChE ’63), both of whom are Prados’ former students.

“I am deeply grateful to Malcolm Colditz and Mike Stone for this wonderful contribution to our program. The greatest reward a faculty member can have is for a former student to say ‘thanks, you helped me.’ The establishment of this professorship is by far the most

significant thanks that I have ever received!” Prados said.

Prados is still active and enthusiastic, and is very optimistic about the future of the CBE department.

“I have been blessed with good health and a wonderfully supportive family; without both of these I could not have remained active as long I have,” Prados commented. “I am slowing down now, both physically and professionally, but I still enjoy the opportunity to teach occasionally and to serve from time to time as a consultant to engineering programs preparing for accreditation. Students and younger colleagues keep me from getting old too fast.”

2007 The chemical engineering academic unit is renamed the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) to reflect changes in the department’s academic and research missions.

2008 CBE establishes the Sustainable Technology through Advanced Interdisciplinary Research (STAIR) program, funded through a grant from the National Science Foundation.

2009 Dr. Thomas Zawodzinski, an internationally recognized leader in the field of fuel cells, joins the department as its first Governor’s Chair in Electrical Energy Storage.

2010 Dr. John Prados is honored with the college’s Nathan W. Dougherty award and a professorship is established in his name.

2010 A team of COE faculty and administrators, including nuclear engineering professor Dr. Wes Hines, CBE department head Dr. Bamin Khomami and MABE department head Dr. Bill Hamel are awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Science Foundation to fund the construction of state-of-the-art research labs in the Dougherty Engineering Building.

2011 The department celebrates its 75th anniversary.


New Faculty Member: Cong Trinh

Dr. Cong Trinh, a new assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), is looking forward to new opportunities at the University of Tennessee.

“I enjoy doing research and educating the next generations of engineers and scientists,” Trinh said. “My long-term career plan is to develop a strong and competitive research program that helps address interesting and challenging problems.”

Trinh, who joined the CBE faculty in January 2011, was born and grew up in Soc Trang, a small city located in

southern Vietnam. After completing high school, he attended the Vietnam National University in Ho Chi Minh City, where he majored in economics. A year later, he decided to come to the U.S. to complete his education. He enrolled in the University of Houston, where he received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering with minors in mathematics and chemistry in 2003.

Trinh was awarded his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in 2008. He then entered the University of California-Berkeley for postdoctoral training in biofuels research at the Energy Biosciences Institute.

“My current research interest is to fundamentally understand how the cell metabolism works and rationally design, construct and characterize it as the efficient and robust whole-cell biocatalyst useful for biotechnological applications that help address many key problems that we are facing today related to energy, health and environment,” Trinh commented. “My research applies and develops both theoretical and experimental tools from many interdisciplinary areas such as metabolic engineering, (bio)chemical engineering and systems and synthetic biology.”

After receiving his M.S. in polymer science at Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, Qifei Wang originally pursued an industrial career for the first year and a half. It was during that time that he realized continuing his education was his number one priority.

“My knowledge from school enabled me to complete the routine work of my positions,” Wang said. “However, my passion for new things and deep knowledge drove me to pursue a higher degree of education.”

Wang, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), has strong interest in polymer materials’ chemistry and physics. He already learned how to use experimental techniques to study polymers’ structures and properties before he started at UT, but to further understand polymer physics, he knew he needed to turn to other tools, such as computation and modeling, which require knowledge of both chemistry and math.

“The combined discipline of chemistry, physics and math offered by the CBE department perfectly fit my goal,” Wang said.

Wang was attracted to the University of Tennessee for several reasons.

“UT is a prestigious university,” Wang said. “The molecular modeling of polymers research in the CBE department has a very good reputation across the country. Additionally, UT’s close relationship with

Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) provides a lot of opportunities for student researchers to use the state-of-the-art facilities or resources for their research.”

Wang is currently researching multi-scale modeling of polymers’ structure and properties by using molecular-level and coarse-grained (CG) level simulations.

“The newly developed CG modeling technique can be applied to the study of any bulk polymer melt or complex proton exchange membrane (PEM) systems used in fuel cells,” Wang said. “This is promising since it opens the door for mesoscale modeling of polymers, which has a close link to molecular structure but is also capable of revealing macroscopic properties. This level of structure and dynamic properties of polymers are not well studied by either experiments or current modeling techniques.”

Along with his schooling, Wang has quite the resume when it comes to work experience. He was employed as a technical service engineer for PVC and plasticizer products for LG Chemical Company and as a research and development (R&D) lab engineer for polyurethane products for BASF.

Wang hopes that resume will pay off once he graduates in August 2011.

“My goals after graduation include becoming a professional R&D engineer,” Wang said. “I think one of the reasons we gain knowledge is to use it. I hope

Outstanding Graduate Student: Qifei Wang

Qifei WangDr. Cong Trinh

“My current research interest is to fundamentally understand how the cell metabolism works and rationally design, construct and characterize it as the efficient and robust whole-cell biocatalyst useful for biotechnological applications that help address many key problems that we are facing today related to energy, health and environment”

Trinh is excited to be a part of a department that has made significant progress in the last few years and continues to move forward.

“I think that the department is growing in the right direction under great leadership and developing one of the strongest education and research programs in the country. The opportunities for research collaboration within the department are great because the faculty’s research expertise is complementary with the areas of exploration I would like to pursue in my own research group,” Trinh said.

Additionally, Trinh looks forward to finding opportunities to work on joint projects with scientists and researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, particularly in the biofuels research area.

He also plans to enjoy his time in the East Tennessee area. “Outside of work, I like to exercise by jogging and playing table tennis with friends. I also meditate, enjoy food and travel and watch soccer games when I get the chance–but I don’t play, ” Trinh added.

someday I can use my knowledge from UT to change people’s lives and make people live better through technology innovations.”

Wang leaves time for extracurricular activities, too. He said that he was “very lucky to be accepted at UT” because Knoxville is such a great place for outdoor activities.

“Playing soccer with my friends and fishing in the Tennessee River are always lots of fun,” Wang said.

“I think one of the reasons we gain knowledge is to use it. I hope someday I can use my knowledge from UT to change people’s lives and make people live better through technology innovations.”


Outstanding Undergraduate Student: David Flowers

“My love for engineering really started in elementary school,” said David Flowers, the top graduate for the College of Engineering Class of 2011. “I knew I liked science and math.”

Flowers had no trouble deciding he wanted to be an engineer.

He began his academic life at UT in biomedical engineering, but when he realized his attraction to the chemical and molecular fields, he decided to switch to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) when he found out about the concentration.

Flowers, a Mt. Juliet, Tenn. native, is passionate about his major and has thoroughly enjoyed the journey that has brought him to graduation.

His favorite undergrad class was his honors general engineering physics class.

“We had a great group in there,” Flowers said. “We’d get a little crazy at times, but we made a whole lot of work fun. I have a lot of memories from that. I made some good friendships.”

Flowers worked with one of his professors, Dr. Tse-Wei Wang, in the Laboratory for Information Technologies (LIT), where he used many of the techniques he learned in class. He researched an area called bioinformatics, which is a combination of biology, computer science and math. Specifically, he helped Dr. Wang with derivation of mathematical relationships between different variables of interest.

“A lot of my work depended on data analysis,” Flowers said. “Usually, I would just take a lot of numbers and try to make sense of them, so pattern recognition was a pretty big part of my job. It’s completely different from school, yet I used everything from class because I used the techniques I was taught and applied them to completely new situations. It’s funny how many things in life turn out to be patterns that are so similar to each other. That’s part of what research is –

Outstanding Alumnus: Malcolm Colditz

Malcolm Colditz sees his decision to attend the University of Tennessee as destiny.

“I was accepted to M.I.T. and Georgia Tech,” he said, “however, I had been attending a private high school for four years and my brother was coming along behind me. So I chose the less expensive option at UT and, as it turns out, that was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I have never regretted it.”

Colditz was born in Decatur, Alabama. His father was an engineer with TVA, and the family moved frequently during his early years. He grew up in the Fountain City suburb of Knoxville and went to high school at the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Colditz knew from an early age that he wanted to be an engineer.

“For whatever reason, since childhood I was on a course to become an engineer,” Colditz recalled. “This was probably due to both my dad’s influence and also to my favorite uncle. In 1944, he gave me a book titled Descriptive Chemistry and Physics. I still have that book on my shelf.”

Colditz enjoyed his years at UT, enjoying both classes and a full social life that included UT football games, building homecoming floats and other campus activities. He also worked as a co-op student at ORNL.

After receiving his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 1958, Colditz was employed with several divisions of Shell Chemical Company, where he was eventually promoted to Chlorine Plant Manager.

In 1967, Colditz left Shell to construct a specialty chemical plant for an investment group. He also constructed and modified two other plants on a contractual basis.

In 1975, Colditz founded Sea Lion Technology. The company manufactures specialty chemicals and performs contract process development and contract manufacturing for major companies. Sea Lion frequently develops a manufacturing process through the pilot plant phase and then manufactures market-development quantities of the product. Colditz was president of Sea Lion until his retirement in 2002, and he is now a member of its board of directors.

Colditz and his wife, Harriet, have been major benefactors of both the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the College of Engineering. Colditz established the Hugo Colditz Scholarship Endowment in 1990 to honor his father, who received his B.S. in civil engineering from UT in June of 1931. The Colditz family was also instrumental in establishing the Homer Johnson Scholarship Endowment in 1989, which honors Dr. Johnson, who served as professor and head of the Department of Chemical, Metallurgical and Polymer Engineering from 1960 until 1984.

This year, Colditz joined with another chemical engineering alumnus, J. Michael Stone (BS/ChE ’63) to establish the John W. Prados Professorship.

“When we established the Homer Johnson and Hugo Colditz Scholarships, our primary focus was on retaining top in-state students by providing

David Flowers

financial assistance. The need has now shifted toward recruiting and retaining high quality professors. We hope the Prados Professorship will both honor Dr. Prados, one of my former professors, and also achieve the goal of attracting distinguished faculty members,” Colditz said.

Malcolm and Harriet Colditz have been married for 50 years and have three sons, two of whom live in Houston and the third in Dallas. The couple recently relocated to Tennessee from Texas.

Malcolm Colditz

“For whatever reason, since childhood I was on a course to become an engineer,” Colditz recalled.

discovering those patterns and recognizing them when you see them.”

Dr. Wang, after having Flowers as a student in a probability and statistics course, invited him to work in her lab as an undergraduate research assistant so she could mentor him on how to do research. She was thoroughly impressed with his attitude toward research.

“David has insight into solving problems,” Dr. Wang said. “He is very self-motivated and will try things to verify that his approach is logical and correct. He wants to find out the whys behind things, not just the hows. He is always very eager to learn and listened to me when I unveiled black boxes and showed him how things work underneath, or why things are the way they are.”

Flowers said the best part about it all is that he enjoys every bit of his research.

“My love for engineering really started in elementary school,” said David Flowers, the top graduate for the College of Engineering Class of 2011. “I knew I liked science and math.”


Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Faculty

Bamin Khomami

Granger and Beaman Distinguished University

Professor and Head Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana

Research areas: Transport properties of complex fluids; sustainable energy; multi-scale modeling and simulation

Thomas Zawodzinski

Governor’s Chair and Professor Ph.D., SUNY/Buffalo

Research areas: Electrolytes and composite

electrodes for fuel cells; fundamentals of energy storage

materials and systems; water management in fuel cells;

application of NMR to chemical engineering problems

Dr. Lawrence R. Pratt

Tse-Wei Wang

Associate Professor Ph.D., Massachusetts

Institute of Technology

Research areas: Bioinformatics; organization and search in large databases; data

mining

Charles Moore

Professor Emeritus Ph.D., Louisiana State University

Research areas: Areas of distillation design;

operation and control

David Keffer

Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research areas: Molecular modeling;

confined fluids; separations; sustainable energy

John Prados

University Professor Emeritus Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Research areas: Engineering education with special emphasis on active, collaborative learning and

teamwork

Stephen Paddison

Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Calgary

Research areas: Computational materials science as applied to fuel cell electrolytes

and electrocatalysts

Alexander Papandrew

Research Assistant Professor Ph.D., California Institute of

Technology

Research areas: Solid acid fuel cells; catalyst

synthesis; advanced materials for energy storage and conversion

Cong Trinh

Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Research areas: Inverse metabolic engineering

and systems biology; metabolic flux quantification; cell physiology

and advanced fermentation; bioremediation

Eric Boder

Career DevelopmentAssociate Professor

Ph.D., University of Illinois-Urbana

Research areas: Molecular biotechnology

and bioengineering; protein engineering

Paul Frymier

Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia

Research areas: Engineering and optimization

of photosynthetic routes to biohydrogen

Ramakrishnan Kalyanaraman

Associate Professor Ph.D., North Carolina State

University

Research areas: Thin films; phase transformation;

energetic beam processing;functional nanocomposites

Paul Dalhaimer

Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Research areas: Physical characterization of worm-like micelles and their application as drug delivery vehicles; Monte-Carlo simulations of erythrocyte and other hair cell cytoskeletons

Paul Bienkowski

Professor Ph.D., Purdue University

Research areas: Thermodynamics; environmental

biotechnology

Brian Edwards

Professor and Associate Head

Ph.D., University of Delaware

Research areas: Thermodynamics; fluid mechanics;

molecular modeling

Shengting Cui

Research Associate Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia

Research areas: Molecular modeling of materials properties and fluid phenomena

Robert Counce

Professor Ph.D., University of Tennessee

Research areas: Green engineering; process

design; separations

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering hosted a College of Engineering Distinguished Lecture in 2010. On Nov. 23, Dr. Lawrence R. Pratt, the Herman and George R. Brown Chair in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Tulane University, discussed the “Challenges of Understanding Molecular Liquids for Technological Problems of Our Future.”

The current research progress toward understanding electrochemical double-layer capacitors based on nanotube forests, also known as super-capacitors, illustrated his discussion on the current views of the molecular theory of liquids.

Super-capacitors address electrical energy storage problems that are expected to become acute.

Part of his discussion involved Landau’s remark:

“We have not included in this book the various theories of ordinary liquids and of strong solutions, which to us appear neither convincing nor useful.”

He discussed what Landau did not know but could have known and what has changed in the generations since Landau’s remark. One of those changes was the emergence of computational molecular simulations as alternative tests for statistical mechanical theories of liquids.

Dr. Pratt addressed the importance of modern theory to organize, analyze and interpret the high volume of molecular detailed simulation data that can be produced by computational studies of liquids.

Renowned Lecturer: Dr. Lawrence R. Pratt


CBE Board of Advisors 2010 CBE Awards and Recognitions

Dr. Victor H. Agreda is the Director of PCI Technology at Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport, Tenn. Agreda is a member of Tau Beta Pi and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and is the Chair of the Eastman Acetyl Technology Council.

Dr. George Georgiou is the Joan and Keys Curry/Cullen Trust Endowed Chair and a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas-Austin. Georgiou is the recipient of the Marvin J. Johnson Award in Microbial and Biochemical Technology from the American Chemical Society and also received the Professional Progress Award for Outstanding Progress in Chemical Engineering from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He also received the University Cooperative Society’s Research Excellence Award for Best Paper at UT-Austin and the E. Bergman Award from the US-Israel Science Foundation.

Mr. James B. Porter Jr. is the former Chief Engineer and Vice-President of Engineering Operations at the DuPont Corporation, headquartered in Wilmington, Del. Porter, a University of Tennessee graduate, is a member of the Construction Industry Institute, the Engineer and Construction Contracting Associates and serves on the Board of Directors of AIChE. He is currently retired.

Dr. Eric Shaqfeh is the Lester Levi Carter Professor of Engineering at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif. He is also the Department Chair of Chemical Engineering and a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Shaqfeh is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and also received the Bingham Medal from the Society of Rheology, the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the American Physical Society Francois Frenkiel Award and the David and Lucile Packard Fellow in Science and Engineering.

Mr. Bruce Combs is the Global Site Logistics Director, Base Plastics, for the Dow Chemical Corporation in Freeport, Texas. Combs, a University of Tennessee chemical engineering graduate, is the past president of the Society of Professional Engineers (SPE), South Texas section.

The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering’s Board of Advisors consists of a distinguished group of academics, business professionals and industrial leaders from noted universities and international corporations.

The purpose of the board of advisors is to ensure that the department is focused on its mission of education,

research and service to the university and technical communities. The board meets once a year to examine and evaluate CBE’s undergraduate and graduate curricula and to advise the department head and faculty with regard to these issues.

The board provides insight as to the activities of peer departments at other universities and offers

information about the requirements of relevant industries. The board also acts as a liaison between the department and the dean’s office and university administration, providing a candid assessment of the department’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as communicating the department’s directions, goals and resource requirements.

Current members of the CBE Board of Advisors are:

Dr. John Prados Dr. Stephen Paddison Dr. Paul Frymier Dr. Eric Boder

College Awards:

Nathan W. Dougherty Award

John Prados

College of Engineering Research Fellow Award

Stephen Paddison

Department Faculty and Staff Awards:

Outstanding Staff Member Award

Lori Daniels

Outstanding Advisor Award

Paul Frymier

Outstanding Teacher Award

Paul Frymier

Tom and Ruth Clark

Chemical Engineering Excellence Award in Teaching

Eric Boder

Student Awards from Outside the

Department:

American Chemical Society Outstanding Senior Award

Christopher Renner

Alpha Chi Sigma Albert Cooper Award

Shelley Parker

AIChE Outstanding Student Award

Okan Serpersu

AIChE Outstanding Baccalaureate Award

Christopher Renner

AIChE Service Award

Patrick Bowland

Dow Outstanding Junior Award

Robert Verbrugge

Outstanding Senior Award

Mark May, Kenneth M. Elliott

Jim and Sandra McKinley Outstanding Graduate

Student Award

Jun Mo Kim

Most Exceptional Student Award

Patrick Bowland

CBE Special Recognition Award

Heather Lauren Johnson

Scholarships Awarded:


Editorial Boards Current Grants, Contracts and PatentsJournal Articles and Book Chapters Published

1. Interfacial Complex Formation in Uranyl Extraction by Tributyl- Phosphate in Dodecane Diluent: A Molecular Dynamics Study, X. Ye, S. Cui, V. de Almeida, and B. Khomami, J. Phys. Chem., B, 113, 9852 (2009).

2. Anomalous Pressure Drop Behavior of Mixed Kinematics Flow of Viscoelastic Dilute Polymeric Solutions: a Multiscale Simulation Approach, A. Koppol, A. Abedijaberi, R. Sureshkumar and B. Khomami, J. Fluid Mech., 631, 231 (2009).

3. Triazole and Triazole Derivatives as Proton Transport Facilitators in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells, R. Subbaraman, H. Ghassemi, and T. Zawodzinski, SOLID STATE IONICS, Volume 180, 1143-1150 (2009).

4. Modeling the Steady-State Effects of Cationic Contamination on Polymer Electrolyte Membranes, B. Kienitz, H. Baskaran, and T. Zawodzinski, ELECTROCHIMICA ACTA, Volume 54, 1671-1679 (2009).

5. Self-Organized Photosynthetic Nanoparticle for Cell-Free Hydrogen Production, I. Iwuchukwu, M. Vaughn, N. Myers, H. O’Neill, P. Frymier, and B. Bruce, Nature Nanotechnology, 5, 73-79, (2009).

6. A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of the Thermal Decomposition of Perfluorodimethyl Ether, B. Jiang, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, and B. Edwards, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 13670-13677 (2009).

7. Self-Consistent Multiscale Modeling in the Presence of Inhomogeneous Fields, R. Xiong, R. Empting, I. Morris, D. Keffer, Multiscale Model and Sim, 8(1) pp.193-203 (2009).

8. A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of the Thermal Decomposition of Perfluorodimethyl Ether, B. Jiang, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, B. Edwards, J. Chem. Phys. B, 113(42) pp. 13670–13677 (2009).

Journal Articles and Book Chapters Published

For the Period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2010

9. Removing Acetic Acid from a UREX+ Waste Stream: A Review of Technologies, J. Mitchell, R. Counce, J. Watson, B. Spencer and G.Del Cul, Nuclear Technology, 165(3), 360-369 (2009).

10. Ab initio Modeling of Proton Transfer in Phosphoric Acid Clusters, L. Vilciauskas, S. Paddison, and K. Kreuer, J. Phys. Chem. A, 113, 9193-9201 (2009).

11. Correct Virial Formulation in the Isotropic Periodic Sum Method, I. Hristov, R. Paul, and S. Paddison, J. Chem. Phys., 131, 164103-1-5 (2009).

12. On the Mechanism of Proton Transport in Model Perfluorosulfonic Acid Systems: Ab initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations, B. Habenicht and S. Paddison, ECS Trans., 25, 1109-1114 (2009).

13. Proton Exchange Membranes for High Temperature Fuel Cells: Equivalent Weight and End Group Effects on Conductivity, M. Manale, B. Pyle, C-N. Sun, D. Wu, S. Paddison, M. Schaberg, Emery, K. Lochhaas, and S. Hamrock, H. Ghassemi, T. Zawodzinski, ECS Trans., 25, 1473-1481 (2009).

14. Proton Transport in Triflic Acid Hydrates studied via Path Integral Car Parrinello Molecular Dynamics, R. Hayes, S. Paddison, and M. Tuckerman, J. Phys. Chem. B, 113, 16574-16589 (2009).

15. Energy Driven Self-Organization in Nanoscale Metallic Liquid Films, H. Krishna, N. Shirato, C. Favazza, and R. Kalyanaraman, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 11, 8136 (2009).

16. Nonlinear Optical Properties of Multi-Metal Nanocomposites in a Glass Matrix, H. Garcia, R. Kalyanaraman, and R. Sureshkumar, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 42, 175401 (2009).

17. Influence of Acidity on Uranyl Nitrate Association in Aqueous Solutions: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study, X. Ye, R. Smith, S. Cui, V. de Almeida, and B. Khomami, Solvent Extract. Ion Exch., 28, 1 (2010).

18. A Fundamental Study of the Transport Properties of Aqueous Superacid Solutions, S. Jayakody, J.R.P., S. Greenbaum, T. Zawodzinski, and J. Fontanella, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Volume 114, 8941-8947 (2010).

19. Concentrated Collagen-Chondroitin Sulfate Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications, W. Liang, B. Kienitz, K. Penick, J. Welter, T. Zawodzinski, and H. Baskaran, Journal of Biomedical Materials Research: Part A, Volume: 94A, 1050-1060, (2010).

20. Irreversible Nanogel Formation in Surfactant Solutions by Microporous Flow, M. Vasudevan, E. Buse, H. Krishna, R. Kalyanaraman, A. Shen, B. Khomami, and R. Sureshkumar, Nature Materials, 9, 436(2010). Also in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, (2010).

21. Dynamics of Individual Molecules of Linear Polyethylene Liquids Under Shear: Atomistic Simulation and Comparison with a Free-Draining Bead-Rod Chain, J. Kim, B. Edwards, D. Keffer, and B. Khomami, J. Rheol., 54, 283-310 (2010).

22. Atomistic Simulation of Flow-Induced Crystallization at Constant Temperature, C. Baig and B. Edwards, Europhys Lett, 89, 36003 (2010).

23. Analysis of the Configurational Temperature of Polymeric Liquids Under Shear and Elongational Flows Using Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics and Monte Carlo Simulations, C. Baig and B. Edwards, J. Chem. Phys., 132, 184906 (2010).

24. Use of the Ornstein-Zernike Percus-Yevick Equation to Extract Interaction Potentials from Pair Correlation Functions, Q. Wang, D. Keffer, D. Nicholson, J. Thomas, Phys. Rev. E, 81(6) article # 061204 (2010).

25. Evaluation of Functionalized Isoreticular Metal Organic Frameworks (IRMOFs) as Smart Nanoporous Preconcentrators of RDX, R. Xiong, K. Odbadrakh, A. Michalkova, J. Luna, T. Petrova, D. Keffer, D. Nicholson, Fuentes-Cabrera, M.A., Lewis, J.P., Leszczynski, J., Sensor Actuat B-Chem, 148 pp. 459–468 (2010).

26. Proton Transport in Water Confined in Carbon Nanotubes: A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, S. Cui, S. Paddison, 36(7-8), Molec. Sim., 568–578 (2010).

27. A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Algorithm for Proton Transport in Aqueous Systems, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, S. Cui, S. Paddison, J. Phys. Chem. C 114(27) pp. 11965–11976 (2010).

28. On the Relationship Between Polymer Electrolyte Structure and Hydrated Morphology of Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes, J. Liu, N. Suraweera, D. Keffer, S. Cui, S. Paddison, J. Phys. Chem. C 114(25) pp 11279–11292 (2010).

29. The Effect of Charge Distribution on RDX Adsorption in IRMOF-10, R. Xiong, D. Keffer, M. Fuentes-Cabrera, D. Nicholson, A. Michalkova, T. Petrova, J. Leszczynski, K. Odbadrakh, B. Doss, J. Lewis, Langmuir 26(8) pp. 5942–5950 (2010).

30. Molecular-Level Modeling of the Structure and Proton Transport within the Membrane Electrode Assembly of Hydrogen Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, in Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry, Number 46: Advances in Electrocatalysis, Eds. P. Balbuena and V. Subramanian, Springer, New York, (2010).

31. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Polyethylene Terephthalate Oligomers, Q. Wang, D. Keffer, S. Petrovan, J. Thomas, J. Phys. Chem. B, 114(2) pp. 786–795 (2010).

32. Water and Mean Ionic Activities of Aqueous HNO3 Solutions Calculated from the Modified Adsorption Isotherm Model, C. Karni, W. Rains, R. Counce, J. Watson, B. Spencer, G. Del Cul, J. of Separation Sci. & Tech., 45 (12), 1894-1900, (2010).

33. Placing the Acetic Acid Step into the UREX+ Process, J. Mitchell, R. Counce, J. Watson, B. Spencer and G. Del Cul, Nuclear Technology 170(3) 422-429 (2010).

34. High-Throughput Engineering and Analysis of Peptide Binding to Class II MHC, W. Jiang and E. Boder, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 107:13258-13263 (2010).

35. Proton Transfer in Functionalized Phosphonic Acid Molecules, C. Wang and S. Paddison, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12, 970-981 (2010).

36. Mesoscopic Simulations of the Hydrated Morphology of the Short-Side-Chain Perfluorosulfonic Acid Ionomer, D. Wu and S. Paddison, ACS Symp. Ser. 1040, 83-96 (2010).

37. Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations Investigating Proton Transfer in Perfluorosulfonic Acid Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, B. Habenicht, S. Paddison, and M. Tuckerman, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 12, 8728-8732 (2010).

38. The Effects of the Hydrophobic Environment on Proton Mobility in Perfluorosulfonic Acid Systems: An Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Study, B. Habenicht, S. Paddison, and M. Tuckerman, J. Mat. Chem., 20, 6342-6351 (2010).

39. Sign Mistake in Allele Sharing Probability Formulae of Curran et al, K. Gilliam, and T. Wang, FSI: Genet, 1(3-4)(2007),267-272), Forensic Sci. Internat.: Genetics, 4, 213-214 (2010).

40. Thickness- Dependent Spontaneous Dewetting Morphology of Ultrathin Ag Films, H. Krishna, R. Sachan, J. Strader, C. Favazza, M. Khenner, and R. Kalyanaraman, Nanotechnology, 21, 155601 (2010).

Editorial Boards1. B. Khomami, Journal of Rheology

2. B. Khomami, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics

3. B. Khomami, Applied Rheology

4. B.J. Edwards, Journal of Thermodynamics

5. R.M. Counce, Advances in Environmental Research

6. D. Hayes, Associate Editor, Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society, June, 1999-present

7. M. Hu, Editor, The Sol-Gel Gateway, Aug. 2000 - present

8. M. Hu, Editorial Board Member, Journal of Current Nanoscience, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., June 2004 - present

9. M. Hu, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Nanomaterials, Hindawi Publisher Corp., March 2005 - present

10. M. Hu, Editor, Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society, June 2005

11. M. Hu, Editorial Advisory Board Member, Journal of Recent Patents in Nanotechnology, Bentham Science Publishers Ltd., April 2006 - present

12. D. Hayes, Editorial Board, Biological Engineering Transactions (ASAEBE), October 2006-present

13. M. Hu, Advisory Editorial Board member, Nanoscience Journal, Bentham Sci. Publishers Ltd., May 2007 - present

14. D. Hayes, Associate Editor, Journal of Surfactants and Detergents, September 2008-present

15. David De Paoli, Associate Editor, Separation Science and Technology

16. Jack Watson, Editorial Board, Separation Science and Technology

Patents1. Birdwell, J.D., T.W. Wang, D.V. Stansberry,

and J. Pendleton, Method of Expert System Analysis of DNA Electrophoresis Data, U.S. Patent 7,624,087, November 24, 2009.

2. Birdwell, J.D., T.W. Wang, D.V. Stansberry, and J. Pendleton, Method of Organizing and Presenting Data in a Table using Stutter Peak Rule, U.S. Patent 7,640,223, December 29, 2009.

3. Birdwell, J.D., T.W. Wang, D.V. Stansberry, and J. Pendleton, Method of Interaction With an Automated System, U.S. Patent 7,664,719, February 16, 2010.

4. T.W. Wang, N. Xue, J.D. Birdwell, M. Rader, and J. Flaherty, Least-Square Deconvolution (LSD): A Method to Resolve DNA Mixtures, U.S. Patent 7,672,789, March 2, 2010.

Active Grants and Contracts1. Spinning of carbon fiber precursors from

lignin, S. Petrovan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 03/02/2007 – 7/31/2009, $57,871.

2. Advancing the production and use of biodiesel through the micro-refining of waste glycerol, P. Frymier, R. Counce, C. Moore, Environmental Protection Agency, 08/15/2008 – 08/14/2009, $10,000.

3. Interfacial solvent extraction of uranyl-complex: An integrated atomistic molecular dynamics and quantum computations approach, B. Khomami, C. Cui, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 07/08/2009 – 09/30/2009, $60,000.

4. From nanoscale simulation to process engineering: Building a network for understanding polymer dynamics, B. Edwards, B. Khomami, National Science Foundation, 11/15/2007 – 10/31/2009, $189,959

5. NERI FB Spouted Yellowsheet, R. Counce, US Department of Energy, 03/17/2005 –03/16/2010, $441,063.

6. CAREER: Fundamental studies of directed assembly leading to immovable processing of controlled, R. Kalyanaraman, National Science Foundation, 07/01/2008 – 05/31/2010, $168,871.

7. Estimate or extrapolate fundamental property information, R. Counce, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 03/01/2009 – 06/30/2010, $19,404.

8. Optimizing electron transfer for biohydrogen production by photosynthesis, P. Frymier, B. Bruce, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee, 07/01/2008 – 06/30/2010, $75,588.

9. Organic photovoltaic materials, B. Khomami, M. Dadmun, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, 09/01/2008 – 06/30/2010, $136,500.

10. Self-consistent field and single chain in mean-field simulations of diblock and triblock copolymer systems, B. Edwards, B.

Khomami, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee -- Knoxville, 01/01/2009 – 06/30/2010, $37,751.

11. Senior design projects in management of residuals from coal combustion, R. Counce, J. Watson, P. Bienkowski, EPRI, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, 07/01/2009 – 06/30/2010, $5,000.

12. Evaluation of hydrogen storage capacity of novel nanomaterials through molecular-level modeling, D.J. Keffer, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 08/01/2009--07/31/2010, $20,949.

13. A joint computational and experimental investigation of the selective transport of proteins through nanopore membranes, S. Cui, University of North Carolina, 09/26/2006 – 08/31/2010, $200,306.

14. EXP-LA: Collaborative Research: Exploiting geometry and chemistry at the nanoscale to selectively preconcentrate explosive molecules, D. Keffer, B. Edwards, National Science Foundation, 10/01/2007 – 09/30/2010, $265,819.

15. SPHERE: Sustainable photosynthetic hydrogen evolution research, P. Frymier, B. Bruce, National Science Foundation, 08/18/2008 – 10/31/2010, $90,000.

16. Optimization of reactive systems in C-tray polyester finishing reactors: A multi-scale modeling approach, D. Keffer, B. Edwards, B. Khomami, S. Petrovan, Eastman Chemical Company, 11/27/2007 – 11/20/2010, $189,959.

17. East Tennessee Hydrogen Initiative, D. Keffer, W. Davis, D. Agnihotri, C. Cherry, Federal Transit Administration, 07/01/2008 – 12/21/2010, $380,267.

18. Solid state proton conductors 15, S. Paddison, US Army Research Office, 05/06/2010 – 02/05/2011, $7,000.

19. Membranes and MEA’s for dry hot operating conditions, S. Paddison, 3M Company, 09/01/2007 – 03/31/2011, $441,329.


20. Interfacial dynamics in displacement flows of entangled polymeric fluids, B. Khomami, National Science Foundation, 04/01/2008 – 03/31/2011, $200,000.

21. Multi-scale modeling proton transport, water distribution and methanol permeability in proton exchange membranes, S. Paddison, Army Research Office, 05/01/2008 – 04/30/2011, $218,427.

22. Collaborative research: Novel 3-D nanocomposites: A first principles approach to cost effective design, assembly and optical characterization, R. Kalyanaraman, R. Sureshkumar, National Science Foundation, 05/01/2008 -- 04/30/2011, $317,203.

23. Development of a hydrogen discriminating low temperature 1-D nanocomposite microsensor, S. Seal, R. Kalyanaraman, H. Cho, National Science Foundation, 05/01/2008--04/30/2011, $90,000.

24. Collaborative research: Understanding pressure drop-flow rate relationships in inertialess viscoelastic flows: Effects of flow instability and stress-conformation hysteresis, B. Khomami, National Science Foundation, 06/15/2008 – 05/31/2011, $191,073.

25. Magnetic anisotropy in nanoscale systems produced by fast laser processing: Fundamental mechanisms, control and novel magnetic materials, R. Kalyanaraman, A. K. Gangopadhyay, J. Schilling, Z. Nussinov, National Science Foundation, 06/01/2008 -- 05/31/2011, $268,115.

26. Enhanced visible light absorption in thin film multicrystalline Si incorporated with nanocrystals, R. Kalyanaraman, G. Duscher, P. Rack, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 05/31/2009—05/31/2011, $96,285.

27. Joint SEERC/STAIR seminar series, D. Keffer, P. Frymier, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 08/01/2009—05/31/2011, $25,000.

28. Development of an experimentally validated master simulation module for PEM fuel cells, S. Paddison, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 08/19/2009—05/31/2011, $77,452.

29. Covalent biomolecule printing for light harvesting surfaces, E. Boder, P. Frymier, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 09/01/2010 —05/31/2011, $35,000.

30. Equipment funding: Flash freezer, D. Keffer, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 09/01/2009—05/31/2011, $5,000.

31. US industrial energy and GHG emission futures, P. Frymier, B. Tonn, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 09/01/2010 - 05/31/2011, $15,360.

32. In-situ structure development in organic photovoltaic active layer fabrication by spin-coating, M. Dadmun, B. Khomami, Sustainable Energy Education and Research Center, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 09/01/2010 —05/31/2011, $35,000.

33. A unified computational, theoretical and experimental investigation into the transport of protons near the electrolyte/water, electrolyte/catalyst, and electrolyte/nanopartical interfaces, D. Keffer, S. Paddison, 06/15/2008 – 06/14/2011, $760,000.

34. Supplement to: A unified computational, theoretical and experimental investigation into the transport of protons near the electrolyte/water, electrolyte/catalyst, and electrolyte nanoparticle interfaces, D. Keffer, D. Joy, 06/15/2008 – 06/14/2011, $35,000.

35. Extended, continuous platinum nanostructures in thick, dispersed electrodes, T. Zawodzinski, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 07/02/2010 – 07/01/2011, $672,845.

36. H2vBE: A case study of the reliability, cost, and environmental sustainability of hydrogen fuel, P. Frymier, B. Irick, L. Tolbert, C. Cherry, R. Counce, 08/15/2010 – 07/14/2011, $10,000.

37. STEM: Scholarships for engineering students from underrepresented groups on the East Tennessee Region, B. Edwards, D. Keffer, D. Jackson, J. Wu, W. Odom, National Science Foundation, 08/01/2007 – 07/31/2011, $600,000.

38. IGERT: STAIR: Sustainable technology through advanced interdisciplinary research, D. Keffer, B. Khomami, P. Frymier, C. Rawn, B. Bruce, National Science Foundation, 08/01/2008 – 07/31/2011, $2,941,396.

39. Development of novel non platinum group metal electrocatalysts for proton exchange membrane fuel cells, T. Zawodzinski, S. Paddison, Northeastern University, 08/01/2010 – 07/31/2011, $872,132.

40. EPSCoR: Tennessee solar conversion and storage using outreach, research and education (TN-SCORE), T. Zawodzinski, National Science Foundation, 08/15/2010 – 07/31/2011, $357,930.

41. Nanoscale fluidic technologies for rapidly sequencing single DNA molecules, S. Cui, University of North Carolina, 09/01/2010 – 08/31/2011, $26,480.

42. Similarity-based indexing and search of databases for correlation of object properties with reference data, T. Wang, US Army Defense and Command, 08/01/2009 – 10/31/2011, $1,682,484.

43. Controlling the dynamics of cell adhesion using engineered integrin I-domain, E. Boder, Natinal Institute of Health, 09/15/2007 – 08/31/2012, $962,143.

44. Rational design and synthesis of targeted, B. Khomami, National Science Foundation, 09/01/2009 – 08/31/2012, $60,000.

45. Quantifying water extraction by TBP/Dodecaine via molecular dynamics simulations, B. Khomami, S. Cui, Battelle

Energy Alliance, LLC, 10/26/2009 – 09/30/2012, $600,085.

47. Next generation searchable data base, T. Wang, D. Birdwell, Unisys Corporation, 10/11/2006 – 01/31/2016, $1,200,000.

48. Governor’s Chair – Zawodzinski, T. Zawodzinski, TN Governor’s Chair, 07/01/2009 – 12/31/2047, $153,600.

49. Governor’s Chair in energy storage – T. Zawodzinski, UT Battelle LLC, 07/01/2009 – 12/31/2047, $307,200.

50. Governor’s Chair – Zawodzinski discretionary research funds – T. Zawodzinski, TN Governor’s Chair, 07/01/2009 – 12/31/2047, $120,000.

51. Eastman Chemical process control internship, C. Moore, Eastman Chemical Company, 11/16/1981 – 12/31/2047, $346,104.

Conference and Invited (*) Presentations

1. Optical Properties of Nanocomposiotes for Solar Energy Harvesting, A. Paradies, Y. Wu, J. Strader, R. Sachan, P. Rack, G. Duscher, and R. Kalyanaraman, Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement, Knoxville, April, (2009).

2. Directed, Liquid Phase Assembly of Patterned and Thin Metallic Films by Pulsed Laser Dewetting, Y. Wu, H. Krishna, R. Kalyanaraman, J. Fowlkes, P. Rack, 53rd International conference on Electron, Ion and Photon Beam Technology and Nanofabrication, Florida, May, (2009).

3. CAREER: Fundamental Studies of Directed Assembly Leading to Innovative Processing of Controlled Thin Film Nanostructures, R. Kalyanaraman, NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Hawaii, June, (2009).

4. Collaborative Research: Novel 3D Nanocomposites for Optical and Solar Applications: A First Principles Approach to Cost-Effective Design, Nanomanufacturing

and Characterization, H. Garcia, R. Sureshkumar, and R. Kalyanaraman, NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Hawaii, June, (2009).

5. Energy Transfer Driven Self-organization: A Cost-effective Route to Create Novel Functional Nanostructures, H. Krishna, N. Shirato, C. Miller, Z. Nussinov, A. Gangopadhyay and R. Kalyanaraman, NSF Design, Service, and Manufacturing Grantees and Research Conference, Hawaii, June, (2009).

6. Single Droplet Dynamics in the Framework of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, M. Dressler and B. Edwards, 5th International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics IWNET 2009, Cuernavaca, Mexico, August, (2009).

7. Nonequilibrium Monte Carlo Simulation of Flow-Induced Crystallization of a Short-Chain Polyethylene Liquid in Uniaxial Elongational Flow, C. Baig and B. Edwards, 5th International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics IWNET 2009, Cuernavaca, Mexico, August, (2009).

8. Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics Modeling of Concentrated Polymer Blends, M. Dressler and B. Edwards, 5th International Workshop on Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics IWNET 2009, Cuernavaca, Mexico, August, (2009).

9. * STAIR: Sustainable Technology through Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, D. Keffer, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, August, (2009).

10. Solar-Powered Fuel Production: Generating H2 via Self-organized, Thermotolerant, Photosynthetic Nanoparticles, P. Frymier, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Tennessee, August, (2009).

11. * Modeling and Simulation of Dynamics of Polymeric Solutions: Progress and Challenges, B. Khomami, Department of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman, September, (2009).

12. * PFSA Ionomers: Hydrated Morphology & Proton Transport, S. Paddison, Université Montpellier, Montpellier, France, September, (2009).

13. * Nonlinear Pattern Formation and Coherent Structure Dynamics in Viscoelastic Flows, R. Sureshkumar, D. Thomas, B. Khomami, K. Kim, C. Li, S. Balachandar, R. Adrian, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Workshop on Flowing Complex Fluids: Fluid Mechanics-Interaction of Microstructure and Flow, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, October (2009).

14. On the Limitations of Elastic Dumbbell based Constitutive Equations in Simulation of Flow of Dilute Polymeric Solutions with Stagnation Points, A. Abedijaberi and B. Khomami, 81th annual meeting of the Society of Rheology, Madison, Wisconsin, October, (2009).

15. Direct Nonequilibrium Monte Carlo Simulation of Flow-Induced Crystallization of a Linear Short-Chain Polyethylene Liquid in Uniaxial Elongational Flow, C. Baig and B. Edwards, The Society of Rheology 81st Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, October, (2009).

16. An Experimental Study of Slip Flow in Capillaries and Semi-Hyperbolically Converging Dies, P. Kamerkar and B. Edwards, The Society of Rheology 81st Annual Meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, October, (2009).

17. On the Mechanism of Proton Transport in Model Perfluorosulfonic Acid Systems: Ab initioMolecular Dynamics Simulations, S. Paddison, Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells 9 (PEMFC9), 216th National Meeting of The Electrochemical Society, Vienna, Austria, October, (2009).

18. Hydrated Morphologies of Perfluorinated Ionomers for Fuel Cells, S. Paddison, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

19. * Direct Atomistic Simulation of Flow-Induced Crystallization of a Short-Chain Polyethylene Liquid at Constant

Temperature, B. Edwards, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, November, (2009).

20. Effect of Surface Attachment Characteristics On Photoactivity of Photosystem I Assembly On Thiol-Activated Au Substrates, D. Mukherjee, M. Vaughn, B. Bruce, B. Khomami, Annual AIChE Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

21. Impact of Fractal-Like Morphology On Surface Oxidation of Nanoparticles Synthesized Via Aerosol Route: A Kinetic Monte Carlo Study, D. Mukherjee, M. Wang, B. Khomami, Annual AIChE Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

22. Atomistic Simulation of Uranyl Ion Extraction by a TBP/Dodecane Solution, X. Ye, S. Cui, V. de Almeida, B. Khomami, Annual AIChE Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

23. Mechanistic Dynamics of Single Chains in Dense Liquids Under Shear Flow, J. Kim and B. Edwards, AIChE 2009 Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

24. Nonequilibrium Monte Carlo Simulation of Flow-Induced Crystallization of a Short-Chain Polyethylene Liquid in Uniaxial Elongational Flow, C. Baig and B. Edwards, AIChE 2009 Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

25. Comparison of Individual Chain Dynamics of a Short-Chain Polyethylene Dense Liquid with Equivalent Free-Draining Dilute Solution Using an Atomistic and Mesoscopic Level Approach, J. Kim, B. Edwards, B. Khomami, and D. Keffer, AIChE 2009 Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

26. Atomistic & Multiscale Modeling of PET, Q. Wang, D. Keffer, S. Petrovan, J. Thomas, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

27. The Effect of Charge Distribution on RDX Adsorption in IRMOF-10, R. Xiong, D. Keffer, M. Fuentes-Cabrera, D. Nicholson, A. Michalkova, T. Petrova, J. Leszczynski,

K. Odbadrakh, J. Lewis, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

28. Evaluating Metal Organic Frameworks As Smart Nanoporous Preconcentrators for Explosive Sensing, R. Xiong, J. Luna, D. Keffer, M. Fuentes-Cabrera, D. Nicholson, A. Michalkova, T. Petrova, J. Leszczynski, K. Odbadrakh, J. Lewis, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

29. The role of Pore Size and Polar Functional Groups in Hydrogen Adsorption in Metal Organic Frameworks, N. Suraweera, R. Xiong, J. Luna, D. Keffer, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

30. Study of Proton Transport using Reactive Molecular Dynamics, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, S. Cui, S. Paddison, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

31. The Effect of Polymer Equivalent Weight (EW) on Morphology in Hydrated Perfluorosulfonic Acid Membranes Via Molecular Dynamics Simulations, J. Liu, D. Keffer, S. Cui, S. Paddison, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

32. Energetics of Proton Transfer of Hydrated Perfluorosulfonic Acids, S. Zhang, S. Paddison, D. Keffer, AIChE Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

33. An Analysis of Anaerobic Dual-Anode Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) Performance, M. Kim, Y. Wang, D. Shin, J. Sanseverino, and P. Frymier, Annual Fall Meeting of the AIChE, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

34. Production of Photosystem I/ Hydrogenase Fusion Proteins for Improved Electron Transport in Photo-Induced Hydrogen Production, I. Iwuchukwu, K. Nguyen, B. Bruce, and P. Frymier, Annual Fall Meeting of the AIChE, Nashville, Tennessee, November, (2009).

35. * Nanosecond Laser-Induced Dewetting and Self-Organization in Single and Bilayer Metallic Films, R. Kalyanaraman, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, November, (2009).



36. * Dewetting in Single and Bilayer Metallic Films under Pulsed Laser Irradiation, R. Kalyanaraman, AVS 56th International Symposium and Exhibition, San Jose, November, (2009).

37. * Science of Advanced Fabrication, Self-Organized Nanoscale Metals, Alloys and Mixtures from Nanosecond Laser Induced Dewetting, R. Kalyanaraman, Golden Jubilee Symposium on Fabrication at Small Scales & Indo-US Conference on Fabrionics, IIT Kanpur, India, (Dec 2009).

38. Magnetic Properties of Laser Induced 1D-Nanowires and 2D-Nanopolygons of Co Synthesized by Laser-Induced Self-Assembly, H. Krishna, A. Gangopadhyay and R. Kalyanaraman, MRS 2009 Fall Meeting, Boston, December (2009).

39. Nanosecond Pulsed Laser Fabrication of SnO_{\text{2}} Nanowire Arrays for Hydrogen Gas Sensing, N. Shirato, A. Vincent, P. Zhang, A. Kumar, H.-J. Cho, S. Seal, R. Kalyanaraman, MRS 2009 Fall Meeting, Boston, December, (2009).

40. Improved Electron Transport for Hydrogen Production by Direct Electron Transfer from Cyanobacterial Photosystem I to a [Ni-Fe] Hydrogenase, I. Iwuchukwu, K. Nguyen, N. Myers, D. Harrell, L. Johnson, B. Bruce and P. Frymier, 19th Western Photosynthesis Conference, Pacific Grove, California, January, (2010).

41. * Understanding Fuel Cells from the Molecular Level Up, D. Keffer, UT Science Forum, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, February, (2010).

42. * Surface and Bulk nanostructures for Optical Absorption Enhancement in Thin Si Films, R. Kalyanaraman, 2010 TMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, February (2010).

43. Nucleation Energetics and Kinetics of Solidification in Nanoscale Metallic Droplets, R. Sachan, J. Strader, A. Gangopadhyay, R. Kalyanaraman, TMS 2010 Annual Meeting, Seattle, February, (2010).

44. Effect of Laser Surface Modification on Bending Fatigue Characteristics of Zr-Based Bulk Metallic Glasses, R. Sachan, G. Wang, P. Liaw, R. Kalyanaraman, TMS 2010 Annual Meeting, Seattle, February, (2010).

45. Irreversible Flow-Induced Structure Transition in Rodlike Micelle Solutions, M. Vasudevan, E. Buse, D. Lu, A. Shen, B. Khomami, and R. Sureshkumar, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, (2010).

46. Attachment Dynamics of Photosystem I on Nano-Tailored Surfaces for Photovoltaic Applications, D. Mukherjee, B. Bruce, and B. Khomami, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon (2010).

47. Multiscale Simulations of Chain Dynamics in Polymeric Liquids Undergoing Shear, J. Kim, B. Edwards and B. Khomami, American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March, (2010).

48. Fabrication of Complex Three-Dimensional Nanostructures from Self-Assembling Block Copolymer Materials on Two Striped Patterned Templates with Mismatched Symmetry, X. Ye, B. Edwards, and B. Khomami, American Physical Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March, (2010).

49. Stationary Properties of the Entropy as a Functional of the Pair Correlation and Their Application to DFT Calculations of Free Energy, D. Nicholson, C. Gao, D. Keffer, APS March Meeting, Portland, Oregon, March, (2010).

50. Engineering Peptide Recognition by Class II MHC, W. Jiang and E. Boder, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, March, (2010).

51. Specific and Covalent Cross-Linking of Proteins in Vivo Using the Sortase A Enzyme, J.T. Boock, E. Boder, and M. DeLisa, 239th ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, March, (2010).

52. * The Structure and Transport Properties of PEMs: Experiment, Simulation, and Theory, S. Paddison, Dept. Mat. Sci. and Eng., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, March, (2010).

53. * Hydration and Transport of Protons in Model Polymeric Systems of High PFSA Density and Minimal Water, S. Paddison, Spring Meeting of the MRS, San Francisco, California, April, (2010).

54. * The Effects of Fluorine on Proton Transfer in PFSA Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes, S. Paddison, 217th Meeting of the ECS, Vancouver, Canada, April, (2010).

55. * The Simulation and Modeling of Structure and Transport of PFSA Fuel Cell Electrolytes, S. Paddison, Dept. Chem., University of Calgary, Canada, April, (2010).

56. Mapping Conservative and Dissipative Magnetic Response of the Ordered Arrays of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles by Band Excitation Magnetic Force Microscopy, S. Guo, J. Stephen, H. Krishna, N. Shirato, A. Gangopadhyay, R. Kalyanaraman, and S. Kalinin, MRS 2010 Spring Meeting, San Francisco, April, (2010).

57. Ultrathin Si Solar Cells made from Composite Si, R. Sachan, J. Strader, Y. Wu, P. Rack, H. Garcia, G. Duscher and R. Kalyanaraman, Tennessee Innovation Conference, TTDC, Nashville, May, (2010)

58. A Mean-Field Anisotropic Diffusion Model for Unentangled Polymeric Liquids and Semi-Dilute Solutions, J. Kim, P. Stephanou, B. Edwards, and B. Khomami, XVIth International Workshop on Numerical Methods for Non-Newtonian Flows, Northampton, Massachusetts, June, (2010).

59. The Study of Proton Transport using Reactive Molecular Dynamics, M. Esai Selvan, D. Keffer, S. Cui, S. Paddison, DOE Hydrogen Contractors Meeting, Washington DC, June, (2010).

60. Continuum and Multi-scale Simulation of Mixed Kinematics Polymeric Flows with Stagnation Points: Closure Approximation and the High Weissenberg Number Problem, A. Abedijaberi and B. Khomami, 26th International Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows, Northampton, Massachusetts, June, (2010).

61. Irreversible Flow-Induced Structure Transition in Rodlike Micelle Solutions, M. Vasudevan, E. Buse, D. Lu, A. Shen, B. Khomami, and R. Sureshkumar, 26th International Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows, Northampton, Massachusetts, June, (2010).

62. Dynamics of Lipid Droplets in the Fission Yeast S. Pombe. GRC – Lipoprotein Metabolism, A. Long, and P. Dalhaimer, Waterville Valley, New Hampshire, June, (2010).

CBE Donors for Fiscal Year 2010

Mr. Joe P. Belk P.E. and Mrs. Nancy L. Belk

Mr. Clyde Hermon Bell and Mrs. Kazue Momeda Bell

Ms. Linda R. Bell

Mr. Robert G. Bell and Mrs. Eunice Bell

Mr. Mark J. Bendele

Dr. Louis P. Bosanquet and Mrs. Janine Bosanquet

Mr. David A. Boshers and Mrs. Tammy Lynn Boshers

Mr. Patrick T. Bowland

Dr. John B. Briley and Mrs. Judith B. Briley

Mr. Tommy L. Brumfield and Mrs. Sally B. Brumfield

Ms. Virginia C. Butler

Dr. Joseph A. Byington and Mrs. Connie Byington

Mr. Thomas H. Clark and Mrs. Ruth L. Clark

Dr. Robert M. Counce and Mrs. Sandra E. Counce

Dr. Richard L. Cox and Mrs. Kathleen J. Cox

Mr. Dennis A. Denihan and Mrs. Constance S. Denihan

Mr. Kenneth M. Elliott and Mrs. Virginia Elliott

Mr. J. Leonard Garland and Mrs. Marsha Garland

Mr. James Geiger Gibson and Mrs. Jill R. Gibson

Mr. William T. Hall and Mrs. Linda Hall

Mr. Everette Kerby Harris, Jr.

Dr. James H. Haynes and Mrs. Mary A. Haynes

Mr. Charles D. Hendrix and Ms. Ruth Borders

Mrs. Janice Franklin Hensley and Mr. Juel Zee Hensley

Mr. Thomas M. Hobbs and Lori Stephenson

Mr. Lawrence S. Hood

Dr. Craig A. Hoyme and Ms. Debra P. Hoyme

Mr. George Andrew Huttick and Julie Ann

Mr. Louis E. Ingram and Mrs. Nancy D. Ingram

Mr. William Luke Johnson

Mr. Jimmy O. Lampley and Mrs. Mary E. Lampley

Mr. William Benjamin Luttrell and Mrs. Joy Luttrell

Mr. James F. Marlow and Mrs. Lynn Marlow

Mr. James R. McKinley and Mrs. Sandra McKinley

Mr. Warren Everett Medley

Mr. Stephen M. Miller and Mrs. Margaret Miller

Dr. Michael S. Bronstein and Dr. Helen G. Morrow

Mr. Oscar Moser, Jr. and Mrs. Annie Ruth Moser

Mr. John L. Nehls and Mrs. Cheryl J. Nehls

Mary K. Nehls

Mr. Jerry R. Repass and Mrs. Patsy Repass

Dr. Frank S. Riordan, Jr.

Mr. Thomas O. Rogers and Mrs. Anita K. Rogers

Dr. Starling E. Shumate, II and Mrs. Peggy L. Shumate

Mr. Gene C. Smelser and Mrs. Martha M. Smelser

Mr. Jeffrey A. Smith and Mrs. Pamela A. Smith

John H. E. Stelling, III, P.E.

Mr. Gene P. Stickle and Mrs. Cecil P. Stickle

Dr. Douglas F. Stickle

Mr. J. Michael Stone

Donald E. Stout and Mrs. Kathleen M. Stout

Mr. Mark A. Templeton and Mrs. Patricia C. Templeton

Mrs. Lisa M. Thompson and Mr. Timothy L. Thompson

Mrs. Joanne S. Ward

Mr. Frank Watkins, Jr.

Dr. Bamin Khomami and Mrs. Lora Khomami

Mrs. Sue Martin

Ms. Sandra C. Robinson

Mr. Curtis M. Tong

Mrs. Sue T. Utley

Corporations

Eastman Chemical Company

ExxonMobil Corporation

URS Corporation

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc.

Chevron Foundation

Dow Chemical Company Foundation

ExxonMobil Foundation

Merck & Co., Inc. Foundation

Shell Oil Company Foundation

American Institute of Chemical Engineers



Philanthropy in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering: 75 Years of Giving

Article by Brian Shupe, College of Engineering Development Director

Individual Giving

Kenneth M. Elliott (BS/ChE, 1942) (Retired, ExxonMobil) and Virginia Elliott established the Kenneth M. Elliott Chemical Engineering Scholarship. The scholarship is open to prospective students who will major in chemical engineering.

Neal A. Waldrop (BS/ChE, 1943) (Retired, Patent Attorney) and Helen A. Waldrop (BS/Home Econ, 1943) established a trust in honor of Dr. Robert M. Boarts (chemical engineering) and Dean Harris (home economics), both of whom were major influences in their lives.

Sue T. Utley established the James F. Utley Endowed Scholarship. The scholarship is designated for students majoring in chemical engineering and is named for her late husband James F. Utley (BS/ChE, 1950) (Plant Manager, Olin Corporation).

Dr. John W. Prados (PhD/ChE, 1957) (Professor Emeritus, UTK) and Lynn B. Prados have supported and helped build what is now the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UT. Dr. Prados has mentored and inspired many excellent engineers during his time in the department as a professor, an administrator, and as a department head. The John Prados Professorship Fund was started in his name in spring 2010.

Malcolm H. Colditz (BS/ChE, 1958) (President, Sea Lion, Inc.) co-created the John Prados Professorship in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. This professorship will ensure that the legacy on Dr. Prados will be passed on to future generations of engineers.

Thomas H. Clark (BS/ChE, 1959) (Retired, Eastman Chemical) and Ruth L. Clark created the Tom and Ruth Clark Excellence in Teaching Award. The award is given annually to a teacher in the department that best exemplifies the qualities of an excellent academic mentor and instructor.

J. Michael Stone (BS/ChE, 1963) (Owner, Blue Water, LLC) established a scholarship in honor of Dr. John Prados and supported the creation of the John Prados Professorship along with Malcolm Colditz.

James B. Porter, Jr. (BS/ChE, 1965) (Retired, Vice-President, Dupont), (President, Sustainable Operations Solutions) established the James B. Porter, Jr. Scholarship Endowment in Engineering. Mr. Porter has also been an important advocate for UT in helping align and maintain our corporate relationship with DuPont and formerly served on the College of Engineering Board of Advisors.

Dr. Edgar L. Mohundro (PhD/ChE, 1970) (Retired, ExxonMobil/Self-employed) and Carolyn J. Mohundro gave to the department fund for chemical engineering. Ed and Carolyn continue to give faithfully every year.

James Geiger Gibson (BS/IE, 1971) (President, Gibson Tube, Inc.) and Jill R. Gibson (Gibson Family Foundation) established the Gibson Engineering Sustainable Energy Fund for graduate fellowships in energy research and support the Engage Program Fund. Mr. & Mrs. Gibson also support the John Tickle Civil and Environmental Engineering Building Fund.

Dennis A. Denihan (BS/ChE, 1972) (Retired, Chevron Texaco and RaceTrac Petroleum) and Constance S. Denihan (BS/Home Econ, 1972) established the Dennis A. Denihan and Constance S. Denihan Scholarship Endowment for undergraduate students majoring in chemical engineering. Mr. & Mrs. Denihan amended their scholarship endowment to include prospective graduate students in response to the department’s needs. Mr. Denihan also serves on the College of Engineering Board of Advisors.

Jerry R. Repass (MS/ChE, 1972) (Retired Vice-President, Eastman Chemical) has served on the College of Engineering Board of Advisors and gives to the department fund on an annual basis.

Shek Chee Hong (MS/ChE, 1977) (President, Hontek Corporation) and Joanne Hong established the Shek Chee Kong Materials Science Scholarship. Mr. Hong is pleased to help students with educational costs as he too was a scholarship recipient during his time at UT.

Corporate Giving

Over the last 75 years, many corporations have given to the UT Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering to ensure our growth and success. But giving has and can also help corporations advance their own initiatives through access to engineering research, faculty, and prospective employees. In this section, we recognize some of the corporate partners throughout our history who have not only provided funding for scholarships, faculty endowments, and research but have also provided internships, co-op opportunities and in many cases, jobs for our graduates.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) funded half the salary of the first chemical engineering professor at UT. Dr. Robert M. Boarts assumed the newly created position and began formally developing the chemical engineering program.

Eastman Chemical has been a true champion for the department’s success by establishing funds for research and student aid such as the Eastman Graduate Fellowship in Chemical Engineering, the Eastman Chemical Internship and the Eastman Award of Excellence in Chemical Engineering.

DuPont has been a steadfast partner and has provided funding for research and faculty support in the department. Former DuPont CEO Chad Holliday is a graduate of the UT College of Engineering. He is now the Chairman of the Board of Bank of America. Mr. Holliday is also the co-chair of the campaign committee for engineering in the Campaign for Tennessee.

Dow Chemical’s support in the areas of endowed scholarships and research allows us to produce excellent engineers like Bruce Combs who is Dow’s Global Site Logistics Director for Base Plastics in Freeport, Texas. Mr. Combs is a 1984 UT graduate in chemical engineering.

ExxonMobil has been a strong supporter through grants for student projects and faculty funding and research. Nathan Keesecker, a 1996 graduate in chemical engineering, spearheads ExxonMobil’s employee recruitment efforts at the University of Tennessee and other institutions.

Other corporate partners through the past 75 years include such stalwarts as Proctor & Gamble, Rohm & Haas, Shell Oil Company and Texas Instruments.

As the giving profiles of the alumni and friends previously mentioned illustrate, we have a strong tradition of producing quality engineers who become leaders in their fields and who have a passion for giving back. Like any college or university program, the department’s success depends heavily on the participation and support of our graduates and friends.

Annual Giving

While endowing scholarships, fellowships and faculty gifts are a great way to give back, another way is to participate by supporting one of the Annual Giving Funds. There is a college fund for the overall College of Engineering and a department fund for the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. These funds provide immediate capital that allows the dean and/or department head flexible resources to respond to emerging academic opportunities and move with agility to meet priorities.

Alumni and friends of the college and/or department who contribute $1000 each year to The College Fund or The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Fund are recognized in the Dean’s Circle and receive a commemorative medallion. In 2011, the Min H. Kao Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building will be featured. In future years, Dean’s Circle members will receive a commemorative medallion featuring other College of Engineering buildings. Annual gifts at every level from alumni and other friends are all greatly appreciated. For more information on how you can give back for our continued progress to begin the next 75 years, call 865-974-2779 or log on to www.engr.utk.edu/giving.

It is important to realize that every gift provides more than financial support for our department. Throughout the last 75 years people have continued to give to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UT for many reasons. They give because they believe an investment in our students and faculty is an investment in the future or because they received scholarship support and want to pay that generosity forward. People give because they experienced financial hardship when they were students and want to use their resources to help the newest generation of UT engineers. People give in memory of friends or loved ones and because of the fond memories they hold from their time on The Hill. Some give simply because they “bleed Orange and White!” In this section, we recognize some of our individual alumni and friends throughout our history who have given so generously to the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at UT.


CBE Financial Information for Fiscal Year 2010

Total Income/Revenue for FY 2010 $6.7 Million

Gifts & Pledges for FY 2010 $1.9 Million

Gifts, Grants and Contract Expenditures for FY 2010 $2.79 Million

Educational and General Income Revenue for FY 2010 $3.91 Million

State E&G Budget$1,760,995

Salaries & Benefits$1,260,245

Engineering Course Fees$95,395

Equipment$138,882

New Faculty Startup Funds$1,036,177

Facilities & Administration$336,178

Other Non-Recurring E&G Funds$857,459

Other University Accounts$636,792

Summer School Funds$44,000

Operating Expenses$103,604

Research Incentive Funds$111,290

Tuition, Scholarships & Fellowships$316,814

State E&G Budget$3,905,316 (58.3%)

Gifts, Grants and Contracts$2,792,542 (41.7%)

Pledges$1,856,820 (97.7%)

Gifts$44,549 (2.3%)

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