University of Kentucky Gill Eminent Professor Zach Hilt has been named the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Outstanding Student Chapter Advisor for the 2016-2017 school year. Outgoing AIChE President Josh Feinn prepared the award nomination and AIChE selected Hilt from among all AIChE student chapter advisors for the national award. Hilt, who has led UK’s AIChE chapter since 2008, will be recognized at the awards ceremony for the 2017 AIChE Annual Student Conference in Minneapolis on October 29.
UK faculty members in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering who have previously received this award are Dibakar Bhattacharyya (1983; 1991) and David Silverstein (2009).