McKelvey Engineering students win awards at AIChE Annual Meeting

Seniors Sebastian Pujet and Andrea Carbonell took first and second place in poster competition

Channing Suhl 
Pictured: left to right, Sebastian Pujet and Andrea Carbonell
Pictured: left to right, Sebastian Pujet and Andrea Carbonell
Two students from the Department of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis received awards at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Annual Meeting held Nov. 8-12 in Minneapolis.

Sebastian Pujet and Andrea Carbonell, both seniors majoring in chemical engineering, were recognized in the student poster competition. Pujet, who is minoring in computer science, took first place in the Computing & Systems Technology category, while Carbonell, who currently participates in research in WashU’s Electrochemical Engineering Research Laboratory, took second in the Catalysis & Reaction Engineering category. Carbonell is also president of WashU AIChE.

Established in 1908, AIChE is a nonprofit professional organization for chemical engineers, with more than 60,000 members across more than 110 countries.The annual meeting is an educational forum for chemical engineers interested in innovation and professional growth.

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