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T7 - Product Design

Sponsored by the Process Development Group features 10 Sessions with over 60 Papers and is highlighted by a Keynote Address on Product Centered Process Design, by Dr. Robert Langer, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Dr. Langer has received over 100 major awards and is the only engineer to receive the Gairdner Foundation International Award; 56 recipients of this award have subsequently received a Nobel Prize.  He has received the Lemelson-MIT prize, the world’s largest prize for invention for being “one of history’s most prolific inventors in medicine,” and the Charles Stark Draper Prize, the world’s most prestigious engineering prize, from the National Academy of Engineers. 

In 1989, Dr. Langer was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1992 he was elected to both the National Academy of Engineering and to the National Academy of Sciences.  Both Forbes Magazine and BioWorld have named Langer as one of the 25 most important individuals in biotechnology in the world and Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most important people in America (America’s Best) and the one of the 18 most important individuals in Science and Medicine in the United States.

Topical Overview
This Topical addresses the latest developments in the area of chemical product design, including technical, management and educational issues. It highlights the broad and interdisciplinary nature of product design with sessions focused on property estimation, sustainability, polymers, biomaterials, education, and business considerations.  Techniques to evaluate and screen proposed products at the early stages of development, as well as methods for integrating product and process design will be discussed.  The conference will also include two special sessions detailing various case studies in chemical product design.

Highlights to learn about:

  • “Creating and Implementing Medical Technology”, ROBERT LANGER<, the Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • “Product Development from Conceptualization to Market”, KA NG, Chief Executive Officer, Nano and Advanced Materials Institute Ltd, Hong Kong, and RAFIQUL GANI, Technical University of Denmark
  • “Designing Chemical Products”,<link to Technical Session Description>
    Kevin G. Joback, Knowledge Systems, Inc.,
  • “Teaching Chemical Product Design”,  EDWARD L. CUSSLER, a pioneer in Chemical Product Education, Monday, 13 Nov 13, 4:55 PM-5:20 PM, Union Square 24, Hilton Hotel
  • Opportunities and Challenges in Product Design (Plenary Session): Invited papers from leaders in academia and industry, followed by a round table discussion
  • Management and Business Issues in Product Design:  Commercial, market and legal challenges for product design as well as the technical and people challenges inherent in any new product development effort.
  •  Incorporation of Product Design into Chemical Engineering Education:  Recommendations from academics in the forefront of product design in chemical engineering education as well as observations from industry as to how the curriculum addresses needs.
  • Biomaterial Product Design:  Product design for therapeutic drug delivery, biosensors, and tissue scaffolding, and artificial organs and devices
  •  Novel Polymer Product Designs and Applications: Product design for novel structured and/or formulated polymeric materials and their applications
  • Property Estimation and Modeling for Product Design: Estimation and correlation of properties for products containing complex mixtures, complex molecules or multiple phases
  • Integrated Chemical Product and Process Design:  Computed-aided techniques for addressing the interaction of product design with process design
    • Sustainability in Product Design

Related Events

  • Institute Lecture - This year’s Institute Lecture presently planned for Wednesday afternoon, November 15th, will be presented by: DR. CAROL K. HALL <attach to Bio and Abstract>, Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State
  • Process Development Dinner – Tuesday, Nov 14th, Price $50

Topical Conference Proceedings:
A complete 2006 Annual Meeting Proceedings CD-ROM will be available for $90 at the conference and may be ordered in advance using the conference registration form. All submitted papers received prior to the pre-conference deadline will be included and where papers are not uploaded, paper proposal abstracts will be used. Following the meeting the price of the CD-ROM will increase and only limited quantities will remain.