Evan K. Wujcik

Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering

Recent Awards

  • 2023 Best Paper Award for “Silica Fiber-based Visible Colorimetric Method for On-site Naphthalene Detection” in ES Energy & Environment
  • Named one of the Best Rising Stars of Science in 2023 by Research.com [UMaine News]
  • Inducted to the National Academy of Inventors [2022]
  • Department of Defense (DoD) Air Force Research Laboratory Summer Faculty Fellow [2022]
  • American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) PreK-12 Spotlight [July 2022] for impact in pre-college engineering education
  • National Science Foundation (NSF) 2020 CAREER Award [The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.]
  • Promoted to Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) [2016]
  • Lamar University 2016 University Merit Award [Distinguished Teaching of an Outstanding Junior Faculty, which has Inspired and Enriched the Lives of Students]

Areas of Expertise

Advanced Materials
Composites
Conductive Polymers
Electrohydrodynamics
Electrospinning
Environmental Engineering
Green Engineering
Organic Mixed Ionic-Electronic Conductors
Self-Healing Polymers
Stretchable Electronics

Education

B.S. in Chemical Engineering, The University of Rhode Island (2008)
B.S. in Applied Mathematics, The University of Rhode Island (2010)
M.S. in Chemical Engineering, The University of Rhode Island (2009)
M.B.A. in Management (Entrepreneurship), The University of Rhode Island (2011)
Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Akron (2013)
Portrait of Evan Wujcik
Associate Professor