U of L Speed School of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering

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05/28/2026

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We would like to congratulate all the Chemical Engineering students and faculty who were inducted into the Order of the ...
05/08/2026

We would like to congratulate all the Chemical Engineering students and faculty who were inducted into the Order of the Engineer at their ceremony last evening.

Bekah Boegle
Naomi Brimner
Zane Christian
Joshua Freeman
Evan Golladay
Kayla Lancaster
Taylor Ludwig
Ashley Pope
JaMel Westbrook Jr
Lauren Williams
Dr Gerold Willing

This is the time of year where our students and faculty are acknowledged for their successes and accomplishments through...
05/07/2026

This is the time of year where our students and faculty are acknowledged for their successes and accomplishments throughout the year. The Student Government Association awarded two of our own at their banquet held in April.

Dr. Gerold Willing was named as Advisor of the Year for his work as the Speed School Student Council faculty advisor, a position he has held for 21 years.

Kayla Lancaster was given the Legacy Leadership Award for her work as the Speed School Student Council President and SGA senator this year.

Congratulations to both for their accomplishments this year.

Our 1st place winners at this year's EDIS designed and built at 15-gallon biodiesel reactor. The team produced biodiesel...
04/24/2026

Our 1st place winners at this year's EDIS designed and built at 15-gallon biodiesel reactor. The team produced biodiesel from waste cooking oil obtained from several local restaurants. The unit will live in the unit operations laboratory to be used by future classes as one or more unit operations laboratory experiments. It will also be used as a demonstration unit for the introduction to chemical engineering course and for visiting students during events like E-Expo.

Continuing with our EDIS announcements, our 2nd place winners took on the challenge of converting a bourbon distillery t...
04/24/2026

Continuing with our EDIS announcements, our 2nd place winners took on the challenge of converting a bourbon distillery to the production of a rye-based vodka. This would allow distillers to address declines in whiskey demand while still maintaining production continuity and avoiding workforce reductions. Their design requires only minor process changes but provides producers with a practical strategy to remain competitive in an evolving spirits market.

The Speed School Engineering Design and Innovation Showcase was held last Friday. We had 6 design teams presenting their...
04/23/2026

The Speed School Engineering Design and Innovation Showcase was held last Friday. We had 6 design teams presenting their work to our wonderful group of alumni and industrial sponsor judges as well as the general public.

Our 3rd place winners designed a modular, rack-adjacent waste-heat recovery attachment for a data center to capture low-grade heat from an existing cooling interface and deliver it to a defined downstream heat sink. Their design would provide measurable heating downstream of the data center to a nearby building zone which would reduce energy usage by 30%.

04/20/2026

Thank you to all of our alumni and friends who came out to the EDIS on Friday. It was great to see all of you there.

Please keep an eye out on this space for our next departmental events as we wrap up our 100th anniversary celebration.

Thank you to everyone who came out to the pre-release event for the CHE 100th Anniversary Old Forester 100 proof, single...
03/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out to the pre-release event for the CHE 100th Anniversary Old Forester 100 proof, single barrel bourbon. The event was very successful and the departmental faculty had a wonderful time seeing and chatting with everyone who could make it.

If you would like to get your hands on a bottle of this very limited release, you still have time. But don't delay as there are fewer than 100 bottles left. Reach out to either Dr. Willing or Teresa Leezer to reserve your bottle today. All proceeds from the sale of these bottles will go to renovating the Ernst 112 classroom.

In December, James Watters and Gerold Willing were joined by Donna Willis, Caleb Trigo, Kristen Schmidt, and Juan Meriza...
02/23/2026

In December, James Watters and Gerold Willing were joined by Donna Willis, Caleb Trigo, Kristen Schmidt, and Juan Merizalde-Carrillo at the Old Forester Distillery to pick a barrel for a special 100 proof, single barrel release to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Each of the alumni involved in the pick had a significant impact on the design, building, and operation of the Old Forester Distillery when it opened in 2018.

The bourbon selected by the group has been bottled and is ready to be released. The bottles will sell for $125 and proceeds from the release will go to finishing the renovation of the Ernst Hall 112 classroom.

There will be a release event Wednesday night, February 25, at the Old Forester distillery starting at 5:30 pm. You can pick up your reserved 100th Anniversary bottle as well as take part in an Old Forester tasting and meet with other alumni and faculty. Make sure you reserve your bottle soon as there are only 234 100th Anniversary bottles. Once they are gone, they are gone.

If you would like to reserve a bottle, you can sign up using the following link:

https://www.uoflalumni.org/s/1157/19/alumni/interior.aspx?sid=1157&gid=1&pgid=11513&content_id=13960&authkey=6WjR66%2f%2fo2NMRouSze55GoBLdxz5NT396rhnlLawM3pMyLIW%2fMn6mw%3d%3d

For those who are in the Louisville area, the final seminar in our Fall Seminar Series will be a panel discussion on Wom...
11/20/2025

For those who are in the Louisville area, the final seminar in our Fall Seminar Series will be a panel discussion on Women in Bourbon. The panel will be moderated by Andrea Wilson, Master of Maturation and COO of Michter's.

Our panelists will be Marianne Eaves (Consulting Master Distiller), Linda Lewis (Senior Regulatory Manager for Brown-Forman), Amanda Miller (New Product Development Manager at Lofted Spirits), and Heather Wibbels (Executive Bourbon Steward). They will provide a look at the history and future of the industry through the eyes of some of the movers and shakers from both an internal and external perspective. They will also explore some of the common challenges, contributions, and successes of women within the industry.

The seminar will be held tomorrow, November 21, at 1 pm in Ernst Hall Room 310. Parking is available in the lot behind WS Speed.

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