Outstanding AIChE Student Chapter Ninth Year in a Row for OSU

AIChE National Headquarters recognized the OSU AIChE Student Chapter as "Outstanding" for their 2006-2007 school year activities.   This is a top 10% rating of all student chapters in the nation; based on student participation, programming activities, and the contribution of the chapter to the professional development of the students.  Our student chapter earned this recognition nine years consecutively, and frequently before that.   This is an outstanding record of sustained performance.  Our students appreciate the human and leadership aspects that complement the technical matter of engineering.

The photo shows the 2007 seniors enjoying the time between the real graduation photos, wearing their OSU ChE shirts, provided by alumni as a graduation present – to be worn with pride in subsequent years.

The student chapter is fortunate to have an energetic and dedicated advisor, assistant professor Dr. Sundar Madihally.  He won the college Halliburton Outstanding Young Teacher Award in 2006 and the OSU President’s leadership award in 2005.  

Aleisha McCabe, 2007-2008 Chapter President accepted the award from Dr. David Dickson, Student Chapter Committe Chair, at the National Meeting in Salt Lake City November 2007.  Chapter Faculty Advisor, Sundar Madihally looks on.

Students lead the chapter.  They plan and bring things to fruition.   They develop themselves professionally by organizing field trips to companies, or bringing in speakers to talk about careers in chemical engineering.  They also have fun events such as picnics, a golf tournament, pizza night, dodge ball, and laser tag.  They support the community in a variety of activities including Christmas time Adopt-a-Family with the public schools, and their own ChemKidz team that brings the magic and awe of chemical engineering experiments to elementary school classrooms.  They support the department in many ways in hosting high school groups, tutoring, etc.  Finally, they play an active role in both the regional and national AIChE conference activities such as paper presentations, the chemical reaction powered car competition.

The entire department contributes to the environment that supports this extraordinary success of student leadership and honor for OSU.  We are grateful to our alumni and friends for providing financial support that enables the student activities.

The 15 Outstanding AIChE Student Chapters for the 2006-7 school year are:

 Good company!