Corporate Innovation Award

Winner:

2011 -- Xerox

Description:

This award recognizes corporations or corporate divisions employing a substantial number of chemical engineers, for innovation that has resulted in the successful commercial development of new products and/or new processes for making useful products.  A lecture associated with this award is to be delivered at the AIChE Annual Meeting by the Chief Technology Officer or other appropriate high-ranking officer of the recipient company. A manuscript of the lecture may be submitted for publication in Chemical Engineering Progress or other appropriate AIChE media. Examples of the types of contributions to be recognized include:

• Bringing a new product to the marketplace
• Developing a new manufacturing process
• Discovering or creating a unique material
• Transferring a research or technology development to practice
• Improving the performance of an existing product or process
• Reducing the company’s environmental impact
• Pioneering a new industrial concept.

Selection of the winner of the award will be based on three key criteria:

• Impact of the contribution – has it made a difference in the marketplace and global community?
• Magnitude of the challenges that were overcome -- what was the degree of difficulty?
• Innovation and technical creativity – what is the intellectual content?

Deadline:

February 15

Award:

A plaque

Presentation:

To be presented at an event to be announced.