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CEP: YPOV - AIChE Foundation Invests in Tomorrow’s Leaders

YPOV

September

2012

Developing a capable and inspired next generation of leaders is crucial to ensuring that AIChE has a productive and progressive future. This will require a great deal of mentoring and investment in today’s young engineers — who must become both personally committed to the Institute and immersed in its culture and objectives.

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