Faculty Mentors

Faculty Name

Department

Potential Project Title

Robert Beitle

Chemical Engineering

Design of Continuous Bioseparation Systems

Ingrid Fritsch

Chemistry

On-Chip Cyclic Separations Employing Magnetohydrodynamic Microfluidics

Christa Hestekin

Chemical Engineering

Separation of Membrane Associated Proteins by Electrokinetic Chromatography with Peptoid-Modified Bicelles

Jamie Hestekin

Chemical Engineering

Improving Efficiency and Control of Glucose to Lactic Acid Conversion Using Multi-Stage Electrocatalytic and Membrane Reactor Systems

Jacob Monroe

Chemical Engineering

Switching Resolutions with Machine Learning to Accelerate Multiscale Simulations of Proteins

Karthik Nayani

Chemical Engineering

Liquid Crystal-templated Membranes with Slit Pores for Viral Separation

Xianghong Qian

Biomedical Engineering

Development of Advanced Membranes for Ammonia Removal from Industrial and Municipal Wastewaters

Julie Stenken

Chemistry

Improved Membrane-based Biological Microseparations

Keisha Walters

Chemical Engineering

Polymer-grafted nanoparticles for water remediation and advanced separations

Ranil Wickramasinghe

Chemical Engineering

Drinking Water Treatment Options for Eliminating Freshwater Algae and Toxins via Electro-coagulation and Solar-assisted Direct Contact Membrane Distillation

Wen Zhang

Civil Engineering

Separation of Cyanobacteria and Cyanotoxins from Drinking Water Sources