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Jessica E. Torres; Julie C. Liu – Chemical Engineering Education, 2024
To increase interest in chemical engineering and introduce non-traditional chemical engineering fields to high school women, an outreach activity focused on the biomedical applications of polymers was developed. Surveys given to students before and after the activity demonstrated greater agreement with the statements "I am interested in…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Females, High School Students, Public Schools
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Honda, Gregory S.; Pazmino, Jorge H.; Hickman, Daniel A.; Varma, Arvind – Chemical Engineering Education, 2015
A chemical engineering PhD student from Purdue University completed an internship at The Dow Chemical Company, evaluating the effect of scale on the hydrodynamics of a trickle bed reactor. A unique aspect of this work was that it arose from an ongoing collaboration, so that the project was within the scope of the graduate student's thesis. This…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Lifelong Learning, Graduate Students, Internship Programs