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Awards
2001
Alejandro Hernandez-Luna, International Polyolefin, Second poster prize.

1998
  • Prakaipetch Punchaipetch, 3rd student prize in International Conference on Polymer Characterization, Denton
  • Bhaskar Gopalanarayanan, Thesis Award, Composites Division Society of Plastics Engineers  

1997

  • Christopher Own, recipient of the Poster Presentation at POLYOLEFINS X (RETEC) (February)
     
  • Bhaskar Gopalanarayanan, recipient of the Poster Presentation at POLYOLEFINS X (RETEC) (February)
     
  • Bryan Bilyeu, recipient of the Poster Presentation at POLYOLEFINS X (RETEC)(February)
     
  • Bhaskar Gopalanarayanan, recipient of the Graduate Student Scholarship from Advanced Polymer Composites Division (SPE) and  PerkinElmer (April)
     
  • Christopher Own, recipient of the Poster Presentation at POLYCHAR-5
     
  • Bhaskar Gopalanarayanan, Thesis Award, Composites Division Society of Plastics Engineers
May 1995
Bryan Bilyeu, recipient of the Best Student Paper Prize at ANTEC
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

New Stuff

Extruder Design....
The south section of SPE will be supporting the design and manufacture of 2 extruders. Both extruders will be designed and manufactured by a group of undergraduate students from the Department of Engineering Technology as their Senior Design Project. One of the extruders will be displayed in the Manufacturing Engineering Lab for educational and practical purposes. The other will be exhibited in the Woodlands Children Museum to promote awareness of plastic. This project will be directed by Dr. D'Souza as their Chief Engineer and M.S. student, Emmanuel Ogunsona as their supervisor.

New VP and Treasurer
Koffi Dagnon, a new Ph.D student that has shown a lot of potential through the activities in the chapter has been elected as the vice president.  Emmanuel Ogunsona, an M.S. student has also been elected a the treasurer of the chapter. A statement made by him " I have not only come to absorb knowledge, but to impact knowledge in whatever way I can. I do not only want to pass through the university but also that the university passes through me."

Potluck
The student chapter in collaboration with the department of Material Science held a potluck on March 2. View some Pictures

Polyolefin 2007
Student members attended the polyolefin conference in Houston, TX in February. Poster presentations and ushering during the presentation were rendered.

SPE South Section Scholarships
The recipients of the scholarships are as follows:
Akhter, Selina (Fall 2006)
Gampule, Parag (Spring 2007)
Ogunsona, Emmanuel (Fall, Spring 2006)
Sahu, Laxmi

College of Engineering Inauguration
In 2002, Donna Davis, then the President of SPE came in the inaugural semester of the college of engineering.


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