- The Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association, simply referred to as ChEGSA, is a longstanding student-run organization in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).
- Check out our About Us section for our 2025 officer board or our Galleries of past events.
Student News:
After reluctantly signing on to undergraduate research into dissolvable bioplastics with the University of Pittsburgh’s Eric Beckman and Susan K. Fullerton, current CMU ChemE PhD student Andrew Ashmar found his place in the literature and the lab. He is now the first author of an academic paper recently published in Green Chemistry!
Congratulations to Carolina Colombo Tedesco for winning a 2025 AIChE Catalysis & Reaction Engineering Division Travel Award to attend the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston and present her work “Analytical Multiscale and Numerical Approaches for Dynamic/Programmable Catalysis” and “Cyclic Steady-State Simulation for Dynamic/Programmable Catalysis: Application to Ammonia Synthesis!”
Congratulations to Huda Usman, who won third place and the People’s Choice Award at Carnegie Mellon University’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition for “Culturing the Unculturable: A New Frontier in Antibiotic Research”!
As both a mentee and a mentor in Chemical Engineering Graduate Student Association (ChEGSA) programs for Ph.D. applicants and first-year students, Ali Asger has found his place and grown more confident. He also helps students at his undergraduate alma mater understand the kind of research that can come from their course material and how to navigate the graduate school application process.
Recent Events:
Jan 21, 2025Chemical engineering graduate students recently gathered for our annual Festivus celebration 🎉 where we shared our departmental grievances so we can go into the new year unburdened and laugh about the mishaps that happened this past year. We also aired gratitudes to keep things a bit positive!
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Take us out to the ball game! Thanks to Professor Jim Schneider for organizing faculty, grad students, and staff to attend a Pirates game!
We’re grateful to all the grad students who volunteered during our open houses this spring. Recently, we celebrated them with lunch catered by Secretos de mis Abuelos!
