CSU Spring 2021 Regional Conference
April 2-3 via Pathable
AicheRegionalCSU@colostate.edu
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Join us for two days of student-led competitions, presentations, social gatherings, and more!
UPDATED Conference Schedule
| Friday, April 2nd, 2021 | ||
| Start Time | End Time | Event |
| 4pm | 6pm | ChemE Jeopardy Competition |
| 6pm | 7pm | Chem-E-Car Poster Competition and Safety Inspection |
| 7pm | 8pm | Social Mixer / Networking Event |
| Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 | ||
| 7am | 9am | Chem-E-Car Competition Prep / Setup |
| 7am | 7:50am | Coffee Chat Networking Event |
| 8am | 8:45am | Keynote / Welcome Address |
| 8:45am | 9am | Break |
| 9am | 10am | Conference Workshop 1 |
| 10am | 12pm | Chem-E-Car Performance Competition |
| 12pm | 1pm | Lunch Break |
| 12pm | 1pm | Presidents Meeting |
| 1pm | 2pm | Conference Workshop 2 |
| 2pm | 4pm | Career Fair |
| 2pm | 4pm | Student Technical Presentation Competition |
| 4pm | 5pm | Student Poster Competition |
| 5:30pm | 6:30pm | Awards Banquet |
Student Competitions
Chemical Car Competition
Watch as schools compete to see who can get their chemically-powered car closest to a randomly selected distance.
Competing Schools:
- University of Utah: Pressure car powered by a hydrogen peroxide – yeast catalyst reaction.
South Dakota School of Mines Team 1: Hydrogen fuel cell car.
South Dakota School of Mines Team 2: The Aluminati: Pressure car made of mostly aluminum.
- Montana State University Team 1
- Montana State University Team 2
A complete guide of the official rules and EDP format is available at: http://www.aiche.org/chemecar
Paper Competition
Students present technical papers related to the field of chemical engineering. The individual subjects are left up to each student, so this is a great way to learn more about a variety of topics or gain experience presenting.
April 3rd Competition Times
Denver Haycock: 2-2:25pm
Kyle Primavera: 2:25-2:50pm
Josh Bedwell: 2:50-3:15pm
Nathan Passey: 3:15-3:40pm
Poster Competition
Students present posters based on chemical engineering or related topics. Posters are displayed and are judged to determine the competition winners.
Poster Competitor Numbers (These correspond to the breakout rooms each poster will be in during the competition):
Brandon McReynolds: 1
Catherine House: 2
Jeopardy Competition
A fun, laid-back Jeopardy competition between teams of competitors from different schools. Categories will be focused on chemical engineering concepts as well as science, math, and other engineering-related topics. There will also be at least one “miscellaneous” category not related to coursework. Feel free to sign up and see how many questions you can get! Prizes are awarded to the 1st-3rd place teams, and the 1st place team will advance to the national competition.
The Jeopardy competition will take place Friday evening, following the schedule below:
Career Fair Companies
Tolmar
Anheuser-Busch
AIChE
Conference Sponsors
Thank you to all of our sponsors who have made this conference possible!
Keynote Speaker: Tina Larson
Tina Marriott Larson has served as Recursion’s Chief Operating Officer since July 2018 and as our President since October 2019. She was previously Senior Vice President, Executive Committee member, and Compliance Committee member at Achaogen, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company that discovered, developed and commercialized treatments for infectious disease from May 2016 to June 2018, where she led Achaogen’s technical operations team—accountable for process development, supply chain and diagnostic development. Prior to Achaogen, she was Global Head of Technical Development Business Operations at Roche from October 2014 to April 2016, where she was responsible for business and technology infrastructure.
She spent a total of 20 years at Genentech/Roche in technical operations roles that included Automation Engineer, Associate Director Manufacturing Sciences, Director Process Development Engineering and Senior Director Technical Development Operations & Engineering. She has both deep technical expertise in scale-up of biopharmaceutical production and managing technical and operational organizations.
Ms. Larson was recognized by the Healthcare Business Women’s Association as a Rising Star in 2012, was recognized by Utah Business magazine as CXO of the Year in 2020, and was a 2019 Women Tech Council Awards winner. She has served on the advisory board of Colorado State University’s College of Engineering since 2015 and was recognized in 2019 as a CSU Distinguished Alumni. Ms. Larson received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University.