Welcome Ceremony & Networking Brunch

Before she became AIChE executive director, June served as executive director of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), overseeing its successful launch and growth. Previously, she served as vice president of marketing services at Aventis Behring where she led efforts in commercial finance, supply chain, market research, market services, and outcomes research. She spent many years in the chemical industry progressing from process engineering to finance and planning to marketing and finally in business managment, as director of performance chemicals business development and R&D at... Read more

Phillip R. Westmoreland is 2013 President of AIChE. He is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State Univ. (NCSU) and Executive Director of the NCSU Institute for Computational Science and Engineering. His chemical engineering degrees are from NCSU (BS, 1973), Louisiana State Univ. (MS, 1974), and MIT (PhD, 1986). He has worked in coal research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Union Carbide (1974–1979), as a ChE faculty member at the Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst (1986–2009), and as a program director at the National Science Foundation (2006–2009). An AIChE... Read more