Josh Ramsey Receives the 2009 Omega Chi Epsilon Graduate Instructor of the Year Award

Starting this year, students and faculty decided it would be a good thing to have graduate students recognize the Instructor of the Year for graduate ChE classes.  Omega Chi Epsilon, the chemical engineering student honorary society, coordinated the graduate student vote to select the 2009 ChE Graduate Instructor of the Year, Dr. Josh Ramsey.    

Incoming Omega Chi Epsilon President Jonathan Pratt gave the plaque to Dr. Ramsey during the year end Senior Banquet..

Voting directions to the students state: “… vote for the faculty member you believe is the best Chemical Engineering graduate course teacher at Oklahoma State University.  There are no specific guidelines; use criteria that are appropriate for your situation.”

Dr. Ramsey graduated with his BS degree in chemical engineering at OSU in 2000.  He then earned his PhD at the University of Illinois, and held a post doctoral research position at the University of Kansas in pharmaceutical chemistry before accepting a position as assistant professor in chemical engineering at OSU.  Ramsey’s research area is in gene and drug delivery, in which he is investigating the possibility of using non-pathogenic virus particles as drug carriers to targeted cells.   Josh taught the graduate level transport phenomena “diffusional processes” course.