Ms. Carolina Fernández was awarded with the prize AQUIQÁN Tesis Doctoral, for her PhD. thesis entitled “Novel nanocomposite membranes for a sustainable desalination”, defended in June 2017 with international mention. The ceremony took place in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department of the University of Cantabria, on December 28th, 2018.
On December 21st, 2018 the Christmas Party of the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department took place. In this edition, the Department organized a gala dinner in the Gran Casino of Santander, with an attendance of around 70 people.
Mr. Jose María Colina was awarded the AQUIQÁN 2018 Prize in recognition of his work developed in the Association of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in Cantabria (AQUIQÁN). Jose María Colina, leader of the Education Section, has been in charge of the organization of the Chemistry Olympiad and Miniolimpiad since the constitution of the association. The ceremony took place during the celebration of the Annual Assembly of AQUIQÁN, that was celebrated on December 20th, 2018.
Last Friday 14th December, a group of students and faculty members enrolled in the subject ‘Polymerization Engineering’ of the Degree in Chemical Engineering visited the facilities of Bridgestone located at Puente San Miguel (Cantabria).
Bridgestone is the world’s largest tyre and rubber producer. The plant located in Cantabria is focused on the production of wheels aimed at heavy agricultural machinery. The visit was guided by the quality system manager, Mr. Carlos Diez, and the responsible for the department of technical product quality, Mrs. Carmen Muela. The tour through the factory included an introduction to the evolution of the company and the products characteristics and a guided tour to the production facilities and quality control assurance laboratories.
This activity is becoming a ‘tradition’ in the activities of the subject Polymerization Engineering, because of the high pedagogic contents spread within the students and the detailed and careful organization of the visit.
The Chemical & Biomolecular EngineeringDepartment wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2019!!
Juan Andrés Álvarez defended his doctoratethesis “Development and Characterization of polyethylene multilayer filmscrosslinked by means of electron beam irradiation”, developed under thesupervision of Prof. Ane Urtiaga and Prof. María del Rosario Benavente Castro.The defense took place on December 17th, 2018 at the conference room of theETSIIT of the University of Cantabria. The evaluation committee was formed by Prof.Javier Bilbao (University of Basque Country), Prof. Ángel Irabien (Universityof Cantabria) and María Luisa Cerrada (ICTP-CSIC). This thesis has achieved theIndustrial Doctorate Mention.
On December 17th, 2018, the Chemical &Biomolecular Engineering Department received a group of secondary school studentsof the “I.E.S. Ocho de Marzo” (Castro Urdiales). This group is participating inthe activity “Ciencia con Arte”, that consists in preparing an art video using stopmotion animation, related to the concepts of resource efficiency andcircular economy, and serves as dissemination of the project LIFE2ACID. Duringthe visit, the students were supervised by Andrea Arguillarena and Lucia Gómez.
María del Mar Rasines Laudes has defended her master project entitled “Development of a novel glycation process using microreactor technology”, developed in the frame of the Erasmus+ Program in the company Cargiill, Belgium, under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Albo.
Congratulations and good luck in your newposition as Chemical Engineer!
