Recent & Upcoming Events
Seminars
Seminars are in the large Mechanical Engineering conference room, unless otherwise noted.
- Texas Soft Matter Meeting (co-organized by SPE UH Chapter) – August 18, 2023
- Dr. Leanna Foster (DuPont) – February 22, 2022 (virtual)
- Dr. Gregory K. Hall (ExxonMobil) – April 9, 2021 (virtual)
- Dr. Emily Pentzer (Texas A&M University) – November 5, 2020 (virtual)
- Dr. Susannah Scott (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) – November 7, 2019
- Dr. Amit Katiyar (Dow Chemical) – April 5, 2019
- Dr. Maksim E. Shivokhin (ExxonMobil) – February 20, 2019
- Dr. Narayan Ramesh (Dow Chemical) – November 15, 2018
- Dr. Tanguy Terlier (Rice University) – October 16, 2018
- William Heller, Brad Lokitz (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) – September 20, 2018
- David Hansen (Kraton Polymers) – May 15, 2018
- Wes Hobson (Dow Chemical) – May 3, 2018
- Vittoria Balsamo (Nalco Champions) – November 14, 2017
- John Erne (Netzch Instruments) – October 24, 2017
- Dr. Vivek Sharma (University of Illinois at Chicago) – August 30, 2017
- Baker Hughes Facility Tour – April 6, 2017
- Dr. Jingwen Zhang (ExxonMobil) – March 21, 2017
- Rafael Verduzco (Rice University) – February 14, 2017 (2-3 pm)
- Dr. Wayne Furlan (Baker Hughes) – December 6, 2016
- Peter. Lauzo (Peal Processing Inc) – April 28, 2016
- David Truong (University of Houston) – March 10, 2016
- Adeline Mah (University of Houston) – March 10, 2016
- Wenyue Ding (University of Houston) – March 10, 2016
- Dr. Matthew Dixon (Biolin Scientific) – December 10, 2015
- Guozhen Yang (University of Houston) – Nov 17, 2015
- Dr. Alexander Norman (Exxon) – Oct. 2, 2014
- Jason Clark (Total) – Sept. 18, 2014
- Dr. Pal Arjunan (Director, Trelleborg Chemicals) – April 24, 2014
- Dr. Michael Smith (Momentive Chemicals) – March 27, 2014
- Dr. Corina Sandu (Baker Hughes) – Jan. 2014
- Dr. Rajen Patel (Dow Chemicals) – Dec. 2013
- Prof. Rafael Tadmor (Lamar University) – Nov. 2013
- Blackwell Plastics Plant Tour – Oct. 2013
- Arnab Chakraborty (Process Systems Enterprise) – Oct. 2013
- Ginusha Perera (University of Houston) – Nov. 2012
- Prof. Lou Madsen (Virginia Tech) – Nov. 2012
- Suchanun Moungthai (University of Houston ) – June 2012
- Dr. David Hansen (SBC Polymers Consulting) – May 2012
- Dr. Tirtha Chatterjee (The Dow Chemical Company) – Apr. 2012
- Dr. Dana Breed (The Dow Chemical Company) – Nov. 2011
- Dr. Manu Rego (Dow Elastomers) – Sept. 2011
- Mr. Thomas E. Bell (Managing Director/Owner – S & T Group LLC) – Aug. 2011
- Dr. Phillip D. Hustad (The Dow Chemical Company) – Apr. 2011
- Laura B. Weaver (The Dow Chemical Company) – Feb. 2011
- Dr. Kenneth Anderson (The Dow Chemical Company) – Jul. 2010
- John L. Hammond, Jr. (Baker Petrolite Polymers) – Jun. 2010
- Dr. David J. Lohse (ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Co.) – Apr. 2010
- Dr. Toshio Suzuki (Kuraray America) – Feb. 2010
Workshops
- Bruker Mass Spectrometry & Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy Workshop – September 28, 2022
- Characterization of Polymers using MALDI & TIMS
- Fast identification and characterization of polymers by FT-IR spectroscopy
- Failure analysis and reverse engineering using vibrational spectroscopy
- Advanced Polymer Characterization – September 18, 2017
- Fundamentals of GPC, Various Detectors, and Triple Detection GPC
- GPC Column Selection and Method Development
- Introduction to Tosoh Bioscience and EcoSEC GPC Systems
- Experimental Methods Part 2 – July 24, 2014
- Saeed Ahmadi Vaselabi (Ion Beam Lithography)
- Indranil Mitra (Scattering Techniques for Soft Materials)
- Experimental Methods Part 1 – July 10, 2014
- Abhijit Patil (Electron Beam Lithography)
- Carmen Pascente (Unit Operations for Microelectronics Patterning)
- SPE Student Exchange (TAMU) – Feb. 26, 2014
- Research presentations from TAMU students
- Student Presentations – Aug. 2013
- Abhijit Patil, Weiye Zhu, Rahul Pandey, Maria Vorontsova
- Shu Wang, Umeasiegbu Chinedu, Carmen Pascente
- SPE Student Exchange (TAMU) – Jan. 2013
- Research presentations from TAMU SPE officers