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Making the Transition from Chemistry to Chemical Engineering
Danielle Lucey, MS’26, chemical engineering, wanted to make the switch from chemistry to chemical engineering to broaden her knowledge and career opportunities. Lucey is now applying all of the skills she has learned from the classroom and co-op to start her intensive thesis research on carbon dioxide hydrogenation.
Prometheus Initiative Fuels Open Data for Cleaner Combustion Technology
ChE Professor Richard West, in collaboration with Kyle Niemeyer from Oregon State University, was awarded a $599,925 NSF grant for “Disciplinary Improvements: The Prometheus Initiative: FAIR model and data cyberinfrastructure for predictive combustion science.”
Faculty and Staff Awards 2025
Faculty and staff were recognized at the 27th Annual College of Engineering Faculty and Staff Awards for their exceptional service and dedication in support of students, the COE community, and the university during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Developing a Computer Model for Carbon Dioxide Conversion
ChE Associate Professor Richard West, ChE/COS Assistant Professor Magda Barecka, and ChE Assistant Professor Qing Zhao were awarded a $500,000 grant for “Accelerating Electrocatalyst Innovation: High-Throughput Automated Microkinetic, Multiscale, and Techno-economic Modeling” as part of the Creating Revolutionary Energy and Technology Endeavors (CREATE) Exploratory Topic managed by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).
I&EC Research’s 2021 Class of Influential Researchers
ChE/BioE Associate Professor Eno Ebong, ChE Assistant Professor Sidi Bencherif, and ChE Associate Professor Richard West were featured on the cover of I&EC Research as 3 of 36 scientists recognized as the 2021 Class of Influential Researchers.
Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awardees
Congratulations to the COE student recipients of the Spring 2020 PEAK Experiences Awards. The PEAK Experiences Awards are a progressively structured sequence of opportunities designed to support learners as they […]
West to Work on Collaborative NSF Grant to Further Develop Cantera Open-Source Modeling Software
ChE Associate Professor Richard West is part of a $2.5M NSF collaborative effort to further develop and support the successful and popular open-source modeling software Cantera, a suite of tools for problems involving chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, and transport processes.
Congratulations RISE:2019 Winners
Congratulations to our engineering students who won awards at the RISE:2019 Research, Innovation and Scholarship Expo!
West's Research Makes the Cover the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry
The article “Kinetic solvent effects in organic reactions” by ChE Associate Professor Richard West’s group recently made the cover of the March 2019 Issue of the Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry.
Creating a New Autonomous System
ChE Associate Professor Richard West and Michael Burke from Columbia University were awarded a $450K NSF collaborative grant for creating “Autonomous Systems for Experimental and Computational Data Generation and Data-Driven Modeling of Combustion Kinetics”.
Honoring Highest Achievements
Congratulations to the COE faculty and students that were honored at the 2018 Academic Honors Convocation.
West awarded NSF CAREER Award
ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded a $503K NSF CAREER Award for Predictive kinetic modeling of halogenated hydrocarbon combustion.
Richard West Assists Cantera in Securing Fiscal Sponsorship from NumFOCUS.
ChE Assistant Professor Richard West is a member of the leadership team through which Cantera has just secured fiscal sponsorship from NumFOCUS. Cantera is an open-access software suite which helps […]
Richard West elected to Executive Committee of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute
Richard West has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute. Richard has also recently hosted the 36th Regional Meeting on Kinetics and […]
Kinetic Models of Combustion
ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded a $260K NSF grant for "Resolving discrepancies in detailed kinetic models of combustion via automated transition state theory calculations".
West’s Paper is 3rd Most Downloaded Article on Computer Physics Communications
Assistant Professor Richard West’s paper “Reaction Mechanism Generator: Automatic construction of chemical kinetic mechanisms” was ranked third in the category of Most Downloaded Computer Physics Communications Articles
Northeastern Engineering announces 8 Young Investigator Awards in 2013-2014
These faculty recognitions bring the total young investigator awards in the college to 39, including 25 NSF CAREER and 10 DOD Young Investigator awards.
West Awarded DNI Grant
ChE Assistant Professor Richard West was awarded an $100K Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grant from the American Chemical Society. Dr. West/s main research focuses are catalysis, modeling and simlulation.
New Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Richard West
Assistant ProfessorThe Department of Chemical Engineering welcomed Dr. Richard West in September 2011 as an assistant professor. Dr. West was attracted to Northeastern for the enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit amongst […]