Principal Investigator

Wheaton L. Schroeder

Assistant Professor in the Voiland School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering

Contact: wheaton.schroeder[at]wsu.edu

Education and Research Experience:

  • Postdoctoral Scholar in Chemical Engineering, the Pennsylvania State University (PI: Costas D. Maranas, 2021 to 2024)

  • Ph. D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln (PI: Rajib Saha, defended June 21, 2021)

  • B. S. in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics (minor: Biology) from Iowa State University (Graduated May 2015)

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant at Iowa State University (PI: Jackie Shanks, 2013 to 2015)

Teaching Interests: Introduction to Bioengineering (BIOENG 140), Quantitative Physiology (BIOENG 360), and a future development of optimization methods in metabolic networks course.

Graduate Students

Samuel Hayford Ayensu

Graduate Student in Engineering Science with an emphasis in Bioengineering

Contact: samuel.ayensu[at]wsu.edu

B. S. in Biomedical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (graduated Nov. 2021)

Joined Aug. 2024

Debanik Bose

Graduate Student in Chemical Engineering

Contact: debanik.bose[at]wsu.edu

M.S. in Chemical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Durgapur (graduated May 2023)

B. S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Calcutta (graduated July 2021)

Joined Aug. 2024

Undergraduate Researchers

Gavin C. Heater

Student in Bioengineering (first year transfer student)

Cellular and Molecular Option

A.S. in Pre-Engineering, Everett Community College (graduated Dec. 2022)

Joined Aug. 2024

Abdul Wadood Khan

Student in Bioengineering (first year transfer student)

Joined in Aug. 2024

Samar Patil

Student in Bioengineering (Freshman)

Joined in Aug. 2024