AIChE Mini-Histories:
Suggested Topics and Questions for Inclusion
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Childhood, growing-up, parental and/or familial recollections
- Early education, high school, undergraduate and graduate school (if applicable)
- Motivation to pursue chemical engineering
- Formative career experiences
- Mentors in career/life
- Significant career projects, activities, accomplishments
- Career phases: most enjoyable and most challenging
- Valuable contributions to profession and society
- Noteworthy awards and/or recognition
- How would you like to be remembered?
- Who do you consider the most impressive/influential person you have known? Why?
- What is your single major prediction about the future of chemical engineering?
- What is your greatest a) hope and b) concern about the future of the profession?
- What is your advice for new graduates entering the profession?
- What is your advice for high schoolers considering chemical engineering?
- Is there anything about you-- an attribute, hobby, story or experience-- that few people know that you would like to share?
