Press Releases

AIChE’s Nominating Committee has announced the slate of candidates for president-elect, treasurer, and directors for 2017. The Treasurer for 2017–2019 has resigned and created a vacancy. Under the terms of AIChE’s constitution, the Board of Directors has appointed Joseph D. Smith, a former AIChE director, to serve as interim treasurer until the position is filled in the next election.

On March 17, 2017, AIChE released the following statement: "Statement in response to proposed elimination of the Chemical Safety Board:

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its RAPID (Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment) Manufacturing Institute announced today that James R. Bielenberg will be assuming the role of RAPID’s chief technology officer.

Program will improve process safety training of undergraduate chemical engineering students worldwide. WACKER Chemical Corporation, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Wacker Chemie AG, is affirming its commitment to safe chemical industry practices and the education of the future chemical industry workforce through a collaboration with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will be the newest, and tenth, member of the nation’s network of Manufacturing USA Institutes. Earlier this year, DOE called for the establishment of a Manufacturing Innovation Institute on Modular Chemical Process Intensification for Clean Energy Manufacturing.

To expand on the promise of regenerative engineering for revolutionary applications in health care, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is launching The Regenerative Engineering Society (The RE Society).

Gala lauds 3M, BASF, and Biogen; celebrate Hoover Medal recipient and biotech pioneer Robert Langer of MIT The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) honored 3M, BASF, and Biogen, along with those companies’ leaders, for exemplary achievements in innovation at an awards gala held in New York City on Monday, November 28.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announced today that T. Bond Calloway, Jr., Associate Laboratory Director for Clean Energy Research at Savannah River National Laboratory (Aiken, South Carolina), will become President of AIChE in 2017. Calloway succeeds 2016 President Gregory Stephanopoulos, the W. H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) — an industry technical alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — partnered with the European Process Safety Center (EPSC) on an innovative conference that applied concepts of big data analytics to improve process safety performance in the chemicals, petrochemicals, and allied industries.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announced today that Karen Fletcher is assuming the new role of chief executive officer of its RAPID (Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment) Manufacturing Institute. In making the announcement, AIChE Executive Director June Wispelwey saluted Fletcher’s efforts as “a key player in the conception and development of this AIChE initiative” to provide products and services for the modular process intensification community.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) are partnering with the European Process Safety Center (ESPC) to share best practices and techniques for safe industrial operations at chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical facilities in Europe and globally.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) brought the expertise of the chemical process safety community to engineers across the Americas at the organizations’ seventh CCPS Latin American Conference on Process Safety. The meeting took place August 22–23, 2016, in Lima, Peru, and drew more than 200 delegates representing 60 companies and 16 nations, including many countries in Central and South America.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers has selected its John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer for 2016: Doros N. Theodorou, professor of chemical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. Theodorou will deliver the inaugural Prausnitz Institute Lecture on Nov. 16 at AIChE’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.

Bioengineering & Translational Medicine (BioTM), published by Wiley in partnership with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), has released its first issue. The special issue, entitled “Nanoparticles in Medicine: Targeting, Optimization and Clinical Applications,” is freely available to read, download and share from Wiley Online Library.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will honor Inge G. Thulin, Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of 3M; Wayne T. Smith, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BASF Corp.; and George A. Scangos, Chief Executive Officer of Biogen, at its 2016 Gala, which will spotlight excellence in innovation.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced its intention to form a Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (Rapid) Manufacturing Institute. The new institute aligns with the objectives of the United States National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) to establish a strategic partnership on activities of mutual importance to the two engineering organizations. The signing ceremony took place on April 9, 2016, at AIChE’s Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Houston, Texas.

The AIChE Foundation – the philanthropic arm of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) – has named Jim Fitterling, president and chief operating officer of the Dow Chemical Company (NYSE:DOW), and John Y. Televantos, partner at Arsenal Capital Partners, as co-chairs of the foundation’s “Doing a World of Good” campaign.

Andreas C. Kramvis, vice chairman of Honeywell, a Fortune 100 company focused on global technology, was the keynote speaker at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 2016 Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety, held in Houston, Texas on April 11 Kramvis opened the chemical engineering conference with his lecture entitled “Transforming a Business for Success.”