Scholarship Program Opportunities

SCI Scholars

The program is a joint effort of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) America International Group, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and was developed to introduce chemistry and chemical engineering students to careers in the chemical industry.

Exceptional sophomores and juniors with a GPA of at least 3.5 and who are majoring in chemistry or chemical engineering are encouraged to apply.

Program details:

• Thirty scholars will be chosen for internship positions in the summer of 2012.
• SCI Scholars receive $6,000-$10,000 for a ten-week internship.
• Students will be awarded a certificate and an additional $1,000, which can be used for any purpose, such as participation at an ACS or AIChE meeting.
• Scholars nominate a high school chemistry teacher for recognition. Teachers will be awarded a certificate from SCI and $1,000, which can be used for professional development or classroom materials.
• Applications are due December 16, 2011.
• Interested students should visit www.acs.org/sci to fill out an application and get more information.

SMART Scholarship Program

The Science, Mathematics, And Research for Transformation (SMART) scholarship-for-service Program fully funds undergraduate and graduate degrees in a wide range of technical areas, including all fields of engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Mathematics.   

A SMART brochure and a poster are attached and the application web page is at www.asee.org/SMART.  The application deadline is December 1, 2011 for the 2012 school year.  SMART provides:

·         Full Tuition – to any accredited U.S. University

·         A very generous stipend while in school 

-          $25,000 for undergraduates

-          $33,000 for masters candidates

-          $36,300 to $41,800 for doctoral candidates

·         Book allowance – $1,000

·         Health Insurance 

·         Paid Summer internships

·         All required student fees

            ·         Travel for internships  

ExxonMobil Success Program Seminar Nov. 10th

I would like to invite you to an ExxonMobil Success Program Seminar presented by Dr. Steven Girardot entitled " Seven Habits of Highly Effective Georgia Tech Students" this Thursday, November 10 at 11:00 AM in EST L1255 (the ChBE auditorium).

Dr. Girardot holds two degrees from Georgia Tech: a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master's Degree in Chemistry. He completed his doctorate at Emory University in Chemistry and Environmental Health, and also received a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree in Epidemiology from Emory's Rollins School of Public Health. Before joining the Center for Academic Success, Steven served as Assistant Director for TA and Graduate Student Programs at Tech's Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and as a Program Coordinator at Tech's Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing (CEISMC), where he managed tutoring programs that linked Tech students to local elementary schools. His professional interests include teaching and learning in introductory STEM courses and factors which lead to student success in the first and second years of college. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his friends and family, playing tennis, going to GT football games, and enjoying Atlanta's great restaurants!


A delicious lunch will follow the presentation in the ES&T lower level atrium.  I hope you are able to attend.


Sincerely,

Sue Ann Allen

Intern Opportunity

Every day, one out of every four people around the world uses a 3M product. That's because every day at 3M, our employees have one thing in mind - to help customers succeed at home, in the workplace, on the go and around the world. Our employees have an uncanny ability to see customer needs and then meet them by drawing on 3M's pool of technology.

An internship is a temporary, possibly full-time assignment with 3M's Corporate Student Programs. Corporate Student Programs is designed to provide 3M with the opportunity to identify qualified candidates for regular employment, and to provide students with the opportunity to integrate their academic knowledge with work experience. As a Student Programs participant you will develop skills, and gain work experience in your field of study.

This position is limited to working 899 hours per service credit year.  

This particular internship opportunity will support manufacturing related to completing improvement projects in areas such as chemical process optimization, process and product understanding experimentation, training program improvements, inventory control, or product quality. This internship will be located at the Decatur, AL facility, assisting the 3M technical staff in the performance of their job responsibilities. Actual projects will be tailored around the plant needs and your career interest and skills to the greatest extent possible.  You will have the opportunity to spend time on the production floor observing our processes and will be given assignments to assist the manufacturing engineering staff in day-to-day operations of the plant.

Registration Tip #2

CHEM 2380 Sections A2 and A5 are restricted to CHEM majors only until 24 hours after freshman registration opens.

Major Restriction:

Definition:  It means the course is restricted to that major only for now,  not that you are restricted out because of what your major is. 

Let's be honest.  It is their course.  They do have the right to let their students register for it first.
(FYI, we do this with our CHBE courses too!)

Here is another good link for registration errors on the Registrar site:

Registration Errors

Registration Tip #1

Happy registration everyone!!

As this week continues, and everyone continues to go crazy trying to find that perfect schedule, the advising office decided we would throw out a couple of short tips this week to try and ease your frustrations.

First off we have the PERMIT /OVERLOAD/ PRE_REQ monster!

Since every single department handles permits differently, CHBE advising normally asks you to contact someone in the department who currently teaches the course that you want the overload for.

So how do you find out who that is?

One great way is to use the Registrar's site to check out the awesome list they have put together outlining most of the different school policies located here:

http://www.registrar.gatech.edu/registration/oprequest.php

Be sure to check out the entire "registration" tab on the registrar's site for some great tips and regulations surrounding registration time!

http://www.registrar.gatech.edu/registration/index.php

Process Engineer Job Opportunity

The initial objective for this individual is to optimize our Manufacturing Recipes by determining the optimal process settings through Design of Experiments.

Qualifications:

• Engineering Degree (Chemical or Mechanical Preferred, Industrial or other considered)
• 1-5 Years Experience Preferred – but not required
• High Analytical Capacity (GPA of 3.2 or higher preferred – but not required)
• Has Something to Prove (Wants to rapidly rise to the top of their potential by working in an unconstrained environment)
• Versatile (Can work on plant floor running the process line & taking samples; and can then sit at a computer and run Excel/statistics and summarize findings for a group presentation)
• Limited understanding of Design of Experiments / Statistics (or ability to self learn quickly)
• Limited understanding of HMI systems and historical trending (or ability to self learn quickly)

Contact:
 

Dave A. Petroni

Vice President, Operations
Lehigh Technologies Inc. 

office: 678-495-2204 | cell: 678-793-8483
www.lehightechnologies.com 

Waitlisting Class Registration Feature

Many of you may have heard about the new wait listing feature being employed by several schools here on campus and I wanted to give a little synopsis of what it entails.

When registering for a course the student will notice that there are now two maximum numbers of seats.  The maximum number of actual seats, and the number of waitlisted seats.  When a class fills up the waitlist feature allows a student to register for one of the waitlisted seats.  The student will now be put into a que.  As registration continues  and seats open, then those students in the que will have the opportunity to register for the course in the order they are listed in the que.  Whichever section you waitlist for,  is the section you will receive the seat in if a seat opens up.  You cannot waitlist for multiple sections.

For example:

CHBE 2100 Section A is full. Chemical Engineering decides to add 5 seats.  The first 5 students in the que will receive an email giving them 24 hours during Phase I  (12 hours during Phase II) to register for the course.  If they do not register in this time window,  they will lose their place in line. As more seats are added, or students drop seats, then the next students in line will receive the email.  The waitlist que will carry over from PHASE I to PHASE II meaning if you do not get a seat during PHASE I then you will not lose your place in line.

What does this mean for students?

NO more need for overloads!

NO more refreshing your browser every 3 seconds to see if seats opened up!!

The registrar now has additional info up discussing waitlisting.  See here:

Wait List