This is an honorary session consisting of talks by graduate students who have demonstrated excellence in chemical engineering research in any field related to the area of polymer science and engineering. Speakers are nominated by their research advisors and selected by a committee. To be considered for this award the student must be working towards a Ph.D. degree and must not have completed the requirements for the Ph.D. before the application deadline (April 15, 2017). A nomination package is composed of: 1) A letter by the research advisor, 2) The curriculum vitae of the nominee, and 3) An abstract. Nominations packages are to be sent by the research advisor (as a single PDF file) directly to cesing@illinois.edu with the subject line "AIChE 08A award student name". The nomination package must be received by April 15, 2017 at 11:59pm Eastern Time in order to be considered by the selection committee. The committee will select a finite number of applicants. In order to be eligible for the final award, an invited student MUST also submit his/her abstract directly to a relevant 08A session (not this session) to AIChE by the abstract submission deadline for the Fall 2017 meeting. Students invited to present will have their abstracts transferred to the Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research session, while students not invited will still have their abstracts under consideration in the session to which they submitted.

Polymers