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Alumnus Turns High Schoolers on to Biodiesel

The Chicago Tribune recently featured an article about students at Thornridge High School in Dolton, Illinois, who won a $10,000 cash prize in the Lexus Eco Challenge by turning used cooking oil into biodiesel and promoting its use in the local community. Their physics teacher, Brian Sievers (BSME '91, MSME '98), started the "biodiesel club" to teach his students how they could have a positive effect on the environment. Read this article

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July 7
Tue. 3-3:50pm

Upward Bound

in MEL 2009
A Nano-CEMMS Center event.

November 3
Tue. 3-4pm

Dwell Fatigue Initiation in Polycrystalline Ti Alloys Using Multi-Time Scaling Crystal Plasticity FE Models

in 190 Engineering Sciences Building

November 17
Tue. 3-4pm

Symmetry-Breaking Synchrony Breaking

in 190 Engineering Sciences Building