When West Virginia University alumnus Preston Wu Shyon Chen received his honorary doctorate this past spring, he credited his mentor, the late Chin-Yung Wen, with helping him find the drive to succeed. Wen, who like Chen hailed from Taiwan, served as chair of the Department of Chemical Engineeringat WVU from 1970-1981.
One of the provisions in thehistoric $45 million giftmade toWest Virginia Universityby Ben and Jo Statler called for the establishment of three endowed faculty positions in theStatler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources. The first of these positions has now been filled.
Career fairs can be nerve-wracking. For freshmen, sophomore and junior students, the future of their careers can ride on placement into a respected internship or co-op. For seniors about to graduate, the pressure to find a position in the real-world can add overwhelming anxiety to a year already filled with tough classes and rigorous schedules.
Two engineering professors from West Virginia University have been awarded more than $100,000 from American Chemical Society's Petroleum Research Fund to demonstrate a new method for building fast models of complex chemical reactions and processes.
Researchers from West Virginia University, the National Energy Technology Laboratory and Schneider Electric have won an R&D 100 Award - a national award known as the "Oscar of innovation" - for the development of a virtual reality-based software that provides the energy industry with an unprecedented high-tech look inside the operation of power plants.