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The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pertamina University (Jakarta, Indonesia) to establish a partnership on activities of mutual importance to the two organizations. The signing ceremony took place on May 23, 2017, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

NEW YORK – The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — through its technical subsidiary the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) — is uniting industry practitioners, academic researchers, and business leaders to advance the burgeoning fields related to biotechnology.

SAN ANTONIO, TX — Leaders of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) formally launched the Rapid Advancement in Process Intensification Deployment (RAPID) Manufacturing Institute here today at AIChE’s Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety. Late last year, the U.S.

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

John Y. Televantos, Partner at Arsenal Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on the specialty industrial, healthcare, and specialty financial services sectors, will receive the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Government and Industry Leaders (AGILE) Award.

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 Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) — an industry technical alliance of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — hosted the 3rd Global Congress on Process Safety in Damman, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, December 4–5, 2016. The event — the first held by CCPS in Saudi Arabia — attracted nearly 500 process safety practitioners and leaders from organizations in the Middle East and worldwide.

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).

In a ceremony held during the 2016 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, (November 13-18), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) presented awards to 14 leaders and innovators in chemical engineering.

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.

An unwavering emphasis on safety by Eastman (NYSE:EMN) will help transform the curriculum of undergraduate chemical engineering students around the globe, through a collaboration with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS).

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 Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) — a technical subsidiary of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) — will unite researchers and practitioners in fields related to biotechnology and biomedicine at its first Translational Medicine and Bioengineering Conference. The conference will take place Nov. 12–13 in San Francisco, California, in connection with AIChE’s Annual Meeting Nov. 13–18.

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.

Endowment Will Fund Conferences for Chemical Engineering Students in Northeast Region The Foundation of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has received a gift to fund annual conferences for chemical engineering undergraduates in the northeastern U.S.

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) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), together with the China University of Petroleum, hosted the 4th CCPS China Conference on Process Safety in Qingdao, China, on June 2 and 3. The conference attracted more than 300 participants representing the chemical process industries (CPI), academia, and government agencies in Asia and around the world.

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 Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has established a new professional designation for engineers and practitioners working in the chemicals, petrochemicals and affiliated industries. Becoming a CCPS Certified Process Safety Professional exhibits an employee’s proficiency in, and ongoing commitment to, process safety principles and practices.