Past Events | AIChE

Past Events

These are some of the past events at the St. Louis section of AIChE. New ideas are welcome.

Lectures and presentations:

  • Seminar on solid-liquid separations featuring three experts followed by a dinner talk on gas-gas separations
  • Stabilized enzymes in biofuel cells by Nick Akers, Co-Founder and Director of Business Development at Akermin
  • Risk - What can you live with? by Bob Gale of Emerson Process Management
  • Functional genomics for the ICU by Dr. Jonathan McDunn of Washington University School of Medicine
  • Micro nuclear reactor technology by John Deal, CEO of Hyperion Power Generation
  • Wireless Technology in Process Plants by Michael Olson, Wireless Specialist at Rosemount, a division of Emerson
  • "Sustainability” and "The History of Monsanto" by Earl Beaver
  • Top Ten Tips for Solids Conveying by Tom Blackwood of Healthsite Associates
  • Recent Changes in Patent Law by Douglas E. Warren
  • Training applications and mission of the US Army Chemical Corp at Fort Leonard Wood by Col. Vance Visser
  • Raising capital to start your own chemical manufacturing or chemical equipment company by Mark Hochwalt, Jerry Jost and Tony Rois
  • How a Chemical Engineering Degree gets you to the top by Mallinckrodt president Mark Trudeau

We recently played with hot molten glass at the Third Degree Glass Factory and attended Science Center specials.



 
  • A Presentation by Dr. Sandra Magnus, NASA Astronaut on recent missions to the space station – A Joint Meeting with ASME, AIAA, and Women with WingsAn Earth Day lecture and tour of a LEED Bldg at Washington University
  • We’ve done a wide variety of tours that included engineering firms, consumer goods, chemical plants, construction projects and cultural centers in the last few yearsWe judge the local Science Fair projects and give awards
  • We’ve been having “Trivia for Engineers” in the last few years.  About twice a year we go to a Blues hockey game and we have even had wine tastings! 

Come and join us.