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Mark W. Lockhart, P.E.

Mark W. Lockhart, P.E., is the Process Technology Manager for Burns & McDonnell in the P&I Group in Houston, Texas.  He is responsible for all Process Engineering and Technology Applications for the Refining and Petrochemicals sector.  Mr. Lockhart has extensive experience in manufacturing, engineering and Technology Licensing in the Refining and Petrochemicals industry.  He has held positions as plant process engineer, process design lead for major projects, Manager and V.P. of Process Engineering and Director of Refining and Petrochemical Technologies.  Mr....Read more

Urmila M. Diwekar

Dr. Urmila Diwekar is currently President of the Stochastic Research Technologies LLC, and the Vishwamitra Research Institute (VRI, www.vri-custom.org), a non-profit research organization that she founded in 2004 to pursue multidisciplinary research in the areas of Optimization under Uncertainty and Computer-aided Design applied to Energy, Environment, and Sustainability. 

From 2002-2004, she was a Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bio-Engineering, and Industrial Engineering, and in the Institute for Environmental...Read more

Dr. George Liebermann

Dr. George Liebermann is the Senior Engineering Fellow at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada, where he has held various senior scientific and managerial positions since 1981. He is recognized by the international technical community as a chemical engineering process research and scale-up expert, whose work has yielded more than 40 U.S. patents. In 1997, he was presented with the Xerox President’s Award, the company’s highest honor.

A Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and Canadian Academy of Engineering, Dr. Liebermann has also contributed to the...Read more

David Mahler

Mr. Mahler has over 33 years of experience as an Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Manager and Consultant.  Prior to joining Zephyr Environmental Corp. in 2008, he managed EHS compliance at chemical facilities owned by Sasol North America, Inc., Vista Chemical Company and Conoco Inc. His areas of expertise include regulatory analysis, compliance management, development of environmental management systems and environmental auditing. He received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1978....Read more

Professor Peter Barham

Peter Barham is a Professor of Physics at Bristol University UK, honorary Professor of Molecular Gastronomy in the Life Sciences faculty of the University of Copenhagen and honorary Research Associate at the Animal Demography Unit in Zoology at the University of Cape Town. In Bristol, as well as carrying out his own research in fundamental Polymer Physics and in the conservation of penguins, he is involved in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching and a range of adminstrative tasks. In Copenhagen, he is...Read more

Dr. Dale L. Keairns

Dale’s current work supports the Department of Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory and Deloitte business initiatives. His work has implemented methodologies for carrying out techno-economic analyses of candidate future integrated energy systems. Dale had technical and financial responsibility for the development and commercialization of technology to meet market needs during his career at the Westinghouse Science & Technology Center. His responsibilities included technology support for the Power Generation, Environmental, and Government Operations Business Units and operation...Read more

Dr. James O. Wilkes

Jim Wilkes was born in 1932 in Southampton, England.  He obtained his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge in 1955. The English-Speaking Union awarded him a King George VI Memorial Fellowship to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, from which he received a master's degree in 1956 and a PhD in 1963.  He was also a faculty member in chemical engineering at the University of Cambridge from 1956 to 1960, and at the University of Michigan from 1960 to 2000.  At Michigan, he was department chairman from 1971 to 1977, and assistant dean for...Read more

Joan F. Brennecke

Joan F. Brennecke is currently Cockrell Family Chair in Engineering #16 in the McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. She began her academic career at the University of Notre Dame after completing her Ph.D. and M.S. (1989 and 1987) degrees at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B. S. at the University of Texas at Austin (1984).  

Her research interests are primarily in the development of less environmentally harmful solvents. These include supercritical fluids and ionic liquids. In developing these solvents, Dr....Read more

Pegotty Cooper, MBA

Pegotty Cooper has been providing career and leadership coaching services for the past 7 years to managers and leaders in Fortune 100 companies, professional and trade associations and international technical societies and helping them to create new pathways in their careers.  The focus is to allow them to bring his or her strengths to the table, to create a healthy work environment for themselves, and to find the satisfaction and fulfillment which everyone deserves in the workplace!...Read more

Robert W. Johnson

Mr. Johnson is a Fellow of AIChE and an industry leader in the development and dissemination of risk analysis methods and risk management strategies. Since 1978, Mr. Johnson has helped clients prioritize risk reduction options, develop corporate and plant technical safety programs, identify inherently safer processes, train PHA team leaders, and analyze fire, explosion, and toxic release hazards.

Mr. Johnson teaches AIChE continuing education courses on HAZOP Studies and on Advanced Concepts for Process Hazard Analysis, has prepared several eLearning courses on process safety topics...Read more

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