PINO 2007

• Committee Members

(from left to right) James Mendez Timothy Marsh (Secretary) Olivier Arnoult (Vice President) Kelly Burke (Chair of Logistics) Pamela Knight (Chair of Advertising) Pritesh Patel (President) Mohit Gupta Xiaofan Luo (Webmaster)

• Industrial Partners/Participants

Main Industrial Sponsors
　

Job Fair Industrial Participants

• Competition Winners

Oral Presentation Winner
Charbel Diwan, Cleveland State University, Clinical-Bioanalytical Chemistry ($200)

Poster Presentation
1st: Meghan Smith, Case Western Reserve University, Chemical Engineering ($200)
2nd: Byoung Jo Lee, University of Akron, Polymer Engineering ($100)
3rd: Feina Cao, University of Akron ($50)

• Fact

• One day conference held on March 31st 2007.
• Entirely organized by students, including fundraising of $10,000.
• 101 participants: 71 graduate students (21 posters, 6 talks), 12 undergraduate students (3 posters), and 18 professionals from the polymer community.
• 8 universities, 15 departments (CWRU -Macromolecular, Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, University of Akron, University of Michigan, Virginia Tech, Fredonia, Kent State, North Carolina State, Cleveland State).
• Participants from 12 companies/organizations:

  • Main Partners: Lubrizol, Noveon
  • Partners: Structure Probe Inc. (SPI) supplies , Bayer Materials, Case Alumni Association, American Chemical Society (ACS-PMSE)
  • Participants: Dow Chemicals, Goodyear, Owens Corning, Energizer, Nanofilm, Newry Corp
• $10 fee for participants to cover poster competition awards.
• Organization committee: 8 graduate students from Macro. Sci. & Eng.

• Picture Gallery