Kate Polhemus

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Ph.D. Student
Mechanical Engineering

245 Upson Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
kcp44 (at) cornell.edu

Biography

Kate began her graduates studies in Fall 2014 at Cornell in Mechanical Engineering.   She joined Kirby’s Micro/Nanofluidics Laboratory in October 2014.  She graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with her Bachelors (2013) and Masters (2014), focused on Fluids and Thermal Sciences,  in Mechanical Engineering.

Current Projects

Kate is working on developing a technique to more accurately analyze fluid’s properties subsurface, which examines electrostatic effects at the micro/nano-scale.  She is hoping to apply this technique to also increase oil recovery efficiency in tertiary recovery.

Awards/Fellowships

  • IGERT fellowship: Earth-Energy Systems (2015)
  • Scholarship in Excellence from Ecole Polytechnique Federal Lausanne    (2014)
  • President’s Undergraduate Research Award    (Spring 2013)
  • Women In Engineering Scholarship   (2010)   Sponsored by GM
  • Women In Engineering Scholarship   (2011)    Sponsored by Schlumberger
  • Women In Engineering Scholarship   (2012)    Sponsored by GT College of Engineering
  • Women In Engineering Scholarship   (2013)    Sponsored by Altec

Education

B.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 2013, Magna Cum Laude
M.S. Georgia Institute of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 2014
M.S. Cornell, Mechanical Engineering, 2017

Presentations/Posters

Flow and Transport in Permeable Media Gordon Research Seminar- Poster, July 2018
CNF Annual Meeting- Poster, Sept. 2018, 2017, 2016
Sibley Graduate Research Symposium, Cornell University- Presentation, Jan. 2017, 2016