Most materials are either a solid, liquid or gas but what happens if it is none of these or more than one of these? You likely are dealing with a viscoelastic material. Learn about the properties of viscoelastic materials and how engineers use these special polymers in the medical field. Become a chemical engineer yourself as you create and analyze your own viscoelastic polymer also known as silly putty!
Learn about Chemical Engineering and take a guided of our unit operations laboratory with all its pilot-scale equipment that chemical engineers use to make the fuels and chemicals we use each day. See 3-story packed towers, fluidized bed reactors, heat exchangers, and more. For an interactive twist, take control of any of the nine high definition pan-tilt-zoom cameras located around the actual lab and see what’s happening live!
Bacteria are all around us on almost every surface and they can be beneficial or harmful. Bacteria prefer to live in surface-attached communities of cells known as biofilms. Bacteria that grow together within biofilms behave differently than individual bacteria. The Stewart lab studies bacteria that live in biofilms with the goal of developing new tools to prevent and treat infections. Come learn about where bacteria like to live and how their biofilm homes offer them protection from antimicrobials.
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