Aaron Tomich from Millbury, Massachusetts, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2000 with a degree in chemical engineering. He worked as a project engineer at Albany International in Rochester, NH, for four years before taking a job at Aspen Aerogels in Northborough, MA, where he now works as an application development engineer. He was one of the first students to participate in the International Research Opportunities Program (IROP) at UNH when he completed his research in Spain in 1999. Following this IROP project he presented his research results and was recognized by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for the best undergraduate research presentation in the New England region.
Professor P.T. Vasudevan has taught in the chemical engineering department at the University of New Hampshire for nineteen years, during which time he has mentored numerous graduate and undergraduate students. Dr.Vasudevan has won a number of awards including the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Teacher Award, the CEPS Teaching Excellence Award, the Jean Brierley Teaching Excellence Award, the Excellence in International Engagement Award, and most recently the American Society for Engineering Education New England Section Outstanding Teaching Award. For the past twenty-three years he has worked in the area of catalysis and biocatalysis. His current research is on bioenergy.
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