Chemical Engineering Seniors Win at Design Day

Hard workers, big winners! Two teams of chemical engineering seniors received awards at Engineering Design Day 2016.

At left, Team 15079 – composed of Phillip Befus, Matthew Fry, Juan Sandoval and Matthew Bahr – won the Arizona Technology Council Foundation Award for Innovation in Manufacturing for the project Process Improvement to Minimize Fractures in Water-Soluble Mandrels, sponsored by Advanced Ceramics Manufacturing.

At right, Team 15086 – composed of William Blair, Michael Bauman and Joseph Gaul – won the second-prize Bly Family Award for Innovation in Energy Production, Supply or Use for the project Ethanol Plant Repurposing, sponsored by the department.