Coffee and snacks will precede the presentation in the ES&T Atrium
Ziegler Award Winner Presentations
Best Paper: Rahul Venkatesh, "Data Science Guided Experiments Identify Conjugated Polymer Solution Concentration as a Key Parameter in Device Performance"
Best Thesis Proposal: Yuchen (George) Chang, "The Kinetics of Ball Mill Mechanochemistry and its Application to the Depolymerization of Plastic Waste"
About the Ziegler Awards:
The Waldemar T. Ziegler Awards were established by the family and friends of the late Waldemar T. Ziegler to honor his lifelong commitment to academic excellence and research.
Ziegler was on the faculty of the School of Chemical Engineering from 1946 until his retirement in 1978, when he was named Regents’ Professor emeritus. He died in 1996, leaving behind a legacy of outstanding research in the fields of cryogenics and thermodynamics. Ziegler was instrumental in establishing both the School’s and Georgia Tech’s reputations for outstanding research.
Two individual Ziegler Awards are presented annually to graduate students. The Ziegler Award for Best Paper began in 1998, and the Ziegler Award for Best Proposal began in 2005.