2018 AIChE Annual Meeting Hub: See Everything You Can Experience at the 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting and More!
Join us this year in downtown Pittsburgh, a hub of U.S. industry and manufacturing. The 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting will celebrate chemical engineering’s achievements, its current prospects, and the journey ahead in emerging opportunities in research & development.
Don’t miss out on the latest trends in chemical engineering. Over 5,500 Papers will be presented in the 700+ oral and poster sessions and 10+ topical conferences.
INCLUDED IN YOUR REGISTRATION
- Admission to every technical session, as well as permanent online access to the proceedings.
- Don’t miss out on networking opportunities including University Receptions, and new for this year, morning coffee breaks and afternoon poster receptions.
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Featured Sessions
The 2018 Annual Meeting has a lot to offer. Here's just a small piece of the featured content being presented at this year's meeting. You can find a full list here.
The Future of Energy in the Region, Nation, and World
Monday, October 29, 11:00am - 12:30pm | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom B
What will the future sources of energy be? What is the path to truly sustainable energy? How will our energy portfolio evolve in the near- and long-term future? This session consists of three invited plenary talks from thought leaders giving regional, national, and world views of the future of energy. The session will end with a panel discussion.
What the Heck Happened? Past, Present & Future Disruptions to the Chemical/Fuels Business
Tuesday, October 30, 11:00am - 1:30pm | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Spirit of Pittsburgh Ballroom A
This session will focus on major disruption forces since the 60's and their impact on the chemical business and chemical engineering. 5 disruption forces: 1) the oil crises of the 70s; 2) the financial raiders of the 80s & 90s; 3) the divesting: rise of the pieces; 4) hedge funds & short term gain and 5) rise of natural gas due to hydraulic fracturing.
AIChE's 110 Year Celebration
Tuesday, October 30, 3:30am - 6:00pm | David L. Lawrence Convention Center, 303
The first meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers was held in Pittsburgh PA, December 1908. Our profession has seen dynamic and profound change in the 110 years since that inaugural meeting. This session will look at the future of chemical engineering through the eyes of thought leaders from industry, academia, and national laboratories.
Topical Conferences
Dive into the latest research and thinking emerging in critical growth areas. The Topical Conferences at the AIChE Annual Meeting place you at the forefront of the trending topics in chemical engineering. Whatever your role, if you’re working in related areas you’re sure to benefit from these focused sessions.
Find a full list of Topical Conferences and their descriptions here.
Featured Topical Conferences include:
Food Innovation and Engineering
The Food Innovation and Engineering topical conference will discuss emerging technologies for food production and processing, the food-energy-water nexus, analyze strategies to connect industry and cuisine, and navigate methods to fit the consumer market. Read more
Immunotherapy
This topical conference will host a series of sessions that focus on immunotherapy, which has revolutionized cancer treatment in the past 5 years. Immunotherapy developments, including both protein therapeutics such as monoclonal antibodies and cell-based therapies such as tumor-targeting T cells, have primarily been led by biologists, immunologists, and clinicians. thus far. This topical will provide a venue through which chemical engineers and leaders in immunotherapy can interact and identify areas of potential collaboration. Read more
Microbes at Biomedical Interfaces
This topical conference provides a new platform for engineers, scientists, and physicians to discuss how chemical engineering principles can be employed to solve healthcare challenges and create novel materials and techniques for infection control. TWhile the conference will highlight the fundamental understanding of microbial interactions with functional biomedical interfaces, it will also and present the advances in material design that are yet considered as non-conventional for medical application. Read more
Supported by the generous donors of the AIChE® Foundation
Next-Gen Manufacturing
This topical conference will address the ways in which Chemical Engineers are creating next-gen ways of manufacturing, including new developments, challenges, and features of Industry 4.0, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Manufacturing, and Cybersecurity, through panel discussions by industrial, academic and government keynote speakers. Sessions from many Divisions and Forums are programmed on Process Intensification and modular manufacturing. Fundamental, applications, and novel developments in the Additive Manufacturing will be discussed in five sessions featuring academic, industry, and national labs presenting different aspects of the 3D printing technology. Read more
WIC 20th Anniversary: Celebrating Women in Chemical Engineering
Organized in honor of the Women’s Initiatives Committee’s 20th Anniversary, this all-day symposium – composed of 20 invited speakers – will highlight the achievements of women in chemical engineering from all career stages and fields.. Read More
Supported by the generous donors of the AIChE® Foundation
