MELVIN C.

MOLSTAD PRIZE

The Melvin C. Molstad Prize in Chemical Engineering is awarded to that student or

group of students of the senior class in chemical engineering with the most original
design of a chemical product and/or process system.

Year Project Students Advisor

1978 Methanol Manufacture Suzanne Bird W.D. Seider

Raymond Fortna
Annette Glaudel

1979 Methanol to Gasoline Barbara A. Esposito W.D. Seider

Thomas G. McDowell
William M. Ziegler

1980 Methyl-tertiary-butyl-ether Francis Petrocelli E.D. Glandt

Bruce Vrana
Steven Winston

1981 Shale Oil Retorting Mark A. Baker S.W. Churchill

Alex V. Moomjy
Rudolph Richards

1982 Pressure-swing Adsorption Randahl Cooley A.L. Myers

Oxygen Generation Mary Cusack
Patti Luke

1983 Fluidized-bed Coal Gary Binstock E.D. Glandt

Combustion for Electricity Marcie Lampert
Generation Glenn MacNichol

1984 Biosynthetic Production of Richard T. Elander D.J. Graves

Acetic Acid David Glover
Mark Sullivan

1985 Anhydrous Alcohol Using Stephen Galante W.D. Seider

Zymomonas Mobilis Francis Liu
Kamesh Venugopal

1986 Analysis of Front-end David Block E.D. Glandt

De-ethanizer for Ethylene Sonia Myers
Recovery Maria Pino
 Year Project Students Advisor

1986HM Novobiocin by Kimberly Henry D.J. Graves

Streptomyces Niveus Alfred S. Lee
Valerie Oscilowski

1986HM Dehydration of Ethanol on Mark D. Edelson A.L. Myers

a Molecular Sieve David E. Simon
Michael F. Sullivan

1987 Ethane Recovery from Christopher C. Arnold T.R. Colmenares

Natural Gas John C. Kellow
Donald P. Orloski

1987HM Industrial Production of Michelle Difilippantonio J.A. Quinn

L-aspartic Acid and Debra Feldman
D-alanine Thomas MacVittie

1987HM Inert Gas Generation Davy H. Levy A.L. Myers

Michael D. Ward

1988 Utility System Design for a Kent Ganocy W.D. Seider

Chemical Plant Andrew Salinger
Malvika Singh

1988HM Hydrogeneration of Butyric Grace E. Colon D.J. Graves

Acid Cynthia D. Pauli
Randall Q. Snurr

1989 Recombinant Acrobe for Joseph R. Adamo J.A. Quinn

Citric Acid Amy J. Hourigan
Laura E. Skorpinski

1990 Hydrogen and Carbon Fern S. Abrams W.D. Seider

Monoxide Production Raymond J. Gray
Fadi Hindi

1991 Zero Emission from a Anthony Adamo S.W. Churchill

Tetrahydrofuran Plant David Perkis
Talid Sinno

1991HM Krypton and Xenon from Michael Brose W.D. Seider

Air David Corti
Kurt McPoland

1991HM Germanium from Optical Rob Caren J.M. Vohs

Fiber Effluents Philip Grasso
Martha Jones

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 Year Project Students Advisor

1992 Methanol Manufacture by Patrick S. Doyle S.W. Churchill

Partial Oxidation of Paul J. Evans II
Methane William F. Feehery

1993 CO2 Fixation by Gretchen Albright J.A. Quinn

Filamentous Algae for Chaitanya Desai
Mitigating the Greenhouse David Wallace
Effect

1994 Propoxylated Dominik Dolenec L. H. Ungar

Ethylenodiamine Madhav Mirani
Nancy Yang

1995 Di-Tertiary-Butyl-Peroxide Kyo Sun Lee W. D. Seider

Manufacture Cliff Levy
Nicole Steckman

1996 Dimethylformamide from Ellery Bann S. W. Churchill

Supercritical Carbon Doug Camposano
Dioxide Safiyya S. Shabazz

1997 1,3 Butadiene to Styrene Sean Gallagher A. L. Myers

Ly Heng
Kyle Lawrence

1998 1-Hexene Manufacture Brett Cohen A. L. Myers

Benjamin Smith
Stephen Tieri

1999 Methyl-Methacrylate Christopher Brinkerhoff Paddy OFlynn

Manufacture Adam McCabe
Nitin Natesan

1999HM C4 Byproduct Upgrade Michael R. Phillips W. D. Seider

Christopher Tanzi
Lyly Trinh

2000 Ethylene and Acetic Acid Jason Daniel D.D. Perlmutter

Manufacture Lisa Garaffo
Martin Zalesak

2000HM Ultra-Pure Nitrogen Peggy Chan T. R. Sinno

Matthew Morrow
Jason Vollbracht

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 Year Project Students Advisor

2001 Ethylene from Ethane Matthew Fedors R. J. Gorte

Samuel Holliday
Stephanie Kirsch

2002 Batch Di(3-Pentyl) Malate Mikael Conception T. R. Sinno

Matthew Fucci
Ryan Matley

2002HM Fuel Processor for 5 kW Catherine Celler R. J. Gorte

Fuel Cell Yuriy Roman
Paul Tomlin

2002 HM Rapamycin Coated Stents Rajesh C. Noronha S. L. Diamond

Osamah J. Saeedi
Jeffrey F. Smith

2003 Recombinant Human Frank DePaoli E. T. Boder

Antithrombin III Russell Dickhart
Production from Milk of Robyn B. Nathanson
Transgenic Goats

2003 HM Epitaxial Silicon Wafers via David Brass T. R. Sinno

Plasma Vapor Deposition Aaron Lee

2004 Silicon Wafers Through the Sean Cusack T. R. Sinno

Use of the Czochralski Eiji Takizawa
Growth Process Joyce Tam

2004 HM Pentafluoroethane from Greg Hallahan W. D. Seider

Tetrachloroethylene and Jonathan Sussman
Hydrogen Fluoride

2005 Screening Kinase Inhibitors Qing-Min Chen J. C. Crocker

Using Microfluidics Lauren Beth Heend
Jeffrey Waring

2005 HM Silicon-Germanium Hetero- Bijal Shah T. R. Sinno

Epitaxial Chips for Jeroslav Keybl
Wireless Devices David Young

2006 PlasmaFluor Microfluidic Jon Beus J. C. Crocker

Blood Coagulation Betsy Lee
Analyzer Jocelyn Nelson

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 Year Project Students Advisor

2006 HM Furfural & Methyl- Rich Baliban W. K. Shieh

hydrofuran-based Ryan Tomlinson
Biorefinery

2007 Furfural and Manuel Camacho E. T. Boder

Tetrahydrofuran from Corn Teresa Chen
Cobs Myra Lujan-Suarez

2008 SNPScreen: High- Larry Dooling J. C. Crocker

Throughput Lung Cancer Divya Jayaraman
Genotyping Using the Tushar Khanna
BioMarkTM Microfluidic Keith Mangam
Platform

2008 HM Software Product to Asli Sahin T. Sinno

Simulate and Control Thin Bilge Uz
Film Deposition Daniel Wallman

2009 High-Throughput Screening Amanda Abbott S. L. Diamond

of Clopidogrel Resistance Elizabeth Kohli
using Microfluidic Zhenteng Li
Technology Paul OBrien

2009 2nd Design and Control using Peter Beltramo T. Sinno

Place Stochastic Models of Christina Bodarky
Deposition Reactors Helen Kyd

2010 Algae to Alkanes Liane Carlson S. W. Churchill

Michael Lee
Chukuemeka Oje
Arthur Xu

2010 2nd Waste Heat Recovery Edward Nie W. Shieh

Place Luisa Rodriguez
Ali Raza
Brian Wright

2011 Algae to Biodiesel Daniel Choi S. W. Churchill

Spencer Glantz
Jasmin Imran Alsous

2011 2nd Teraphthalic Acid using Na Cao D. Lee

Place Ionic Liquids Erin Chang
Maria Kaufman

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 Year Project Students Advisor

2011 3rd Design and Control Efrem Braun T. Sinno

Place Software for Materials Marija Mircevska
Processing Manuel Molina Villalba

2012 Microfluidic Production of Gregory Cordina J. C. Crocker

Depohaloperidol with Abby Lee
Controlled Release William Mulhearn
Gurnimrat Sidhu

2012 2nd Blood Processing Unit Daniel Moonan S. L. Diamond

Place Chinmay Paranjape
Jack Tirone
Kristina Wang

2012 3rd Gas Turbine Heat Recovery Michelle Calabrese W. K. Shieh

Place Kaitlin Douglass
Brendan Orinstein
Kritithy Vasansiri
Marisa Wang

2013 Clinical Testing of Citrated Elizabeth Cummings S. L. Diamond

Blood Vamsi Vuppala
Melissa Wang

2013 2nd Propane to Acrylic Acid Amanda Culp J. M. Vohs

Place Kevin Holmes
Rohan Nagrath
Dan Nessenson

2013 3rd Propylene from Marcellus Blake Gendron W. D. Seider

Place Shale Gas Andrew Glace
Ryan Littlefield
Christian Mirabile

2014 Stem Cell Therapy for Priya Kumar M. R.

Spinal Cord Injuries Adam Muncan Wattenbarger
Diana Moock
Michelle Sorkin

2014 2nd Export of Marcellus Shale Ann Hewitt S. P. Holleran

Place LNG Steven Lee
Ryan Marschang
Tyler Moeller

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 Year Project Students Advisor

2014 3rd Sunlight to Convert Carbon Scott Danielsen T. Sinno

Place Dioxide into Transportation Elizabeth Glover
Fuels Katherine McCarty
Luisa Valle

2015 1,3-Propanediol from Evans Molel S. P. Holleran

Glycerol Hannah Phillips
Alexander Smith

2015 2nd Natural Gas to BTX Bruce Chanenchuk W. K. Shieh

Place Alex Evans
Sandhya Thiyagarajan

2015 3rd NGL/LPG Extraction from Jocelyn Champagne W. D. Seider

Place Shale Gas Freddy Ordonez
Zhiyi Zhang