U of L Speed School of Engineering Department of Chemical Engineering

08/24/2026

We are officially in the 2nd week of classes and our students are preparing for the co-op and career fair which will be held on Sept. 3. To help our seniors and sophomores make sure they are ready for this event, the department will be holding a resume review session for our student this Friday from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm in Ernst 310.

If you have any availability during this time and are interesting in helping our students strengthen their resume, we would love to have you attend. Please reach out to Dr. Willing and let him know when you can attend.

If you know of anyone else who might be interested in joining us, please feel free to let them know. The more people we have, the better prepared our students will be.

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07/21/2026

We would like to wish all of our students good luck on their summer finals which start today.

06/30/2026

To celebrate our 100th anniversary, we have come out with a t-shirt and baseball jersey. Can anyone guess what the molecule is?

If you would like one, please reach out to the department at ChemicalEngineering(at)louisville(dot)edu. We have sizes ranging from Small to XXL.

06/10/2026

📢 Save the Date: J.B. Speed School of Engineering Fall 2026 Career Fair

Please save the date for the J.B. Speed School of Engineering Fall 2026 Career Fair at the University of Louisville. This premier recruiting event provides an excellent opportunity to connect with talented engineering students seeking co-op, internship, and full-time employment opportunities.

Career Fair Dates:

Day 1 – Thursday, September 3, 2026
AE, BE, ISE, ChE, and ME students

Day 2 – Wednesday, September 9, 2026
CEE, CSE, BACS, and ECE students

Registration will open on July 1, 2026. We encourage you to mark your calendars and plan to join us as we connect employers with the next generation of engineering talent.

We look forward to partnering with you this fall.

05/28/2026

IYKYK!

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

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.

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.

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.

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%.