Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for Pennsylvania State University Department of Chemical Engineering is a 37-PI network with 37 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Engineering as the leading field (28% of slots across 23 PIs; 23 labels), Biomedical Engineering as the leading subfield (12% of slots across 11 PIs; 11 labels), and Advanced Control Systems Optimization as the leading topic (3% of slots across 3 PIs; 3 labels). That is a nice sign for applicants and collaborators, because the network has both density and separable local groups. The leading PI names are Phillip E. Savage (26.4 weighted works; Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes, Subcritical and Supercritical Water Processes); Qing Wang (26.1 weighted works; Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Dielectric materials and actuators). The clearest collaboration lines are Hasin Feroz and Manish Kumar (5 shared works, weight 4.1); Davood Babaei Pourkargar and Antonios Armaou (4 shared works, weight 4). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 15, around Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, led by Qing Wang, Chunshan Song, Michael A. Hickner; group 2 with 9 PIs, 9 internal connections, weight 14.6, around Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Genetics, led by Andrew L. Zydney, Thomas K. Wood, Manish Kumar.