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Maoqi Feng

Dr. Maoqi (Mark) Feng is a Senior Research Scientist at the Chemical Engineering Department, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, Texas. At SwRI, Dr. Feng’s current research focuses on fuel production from coal, natural gas, biomass, and waste, and catalyst development for liquid fuel processing.Read more

Michael Iwaniw

Michael Iwaniw has worked at The Dow Chemical Company since 2002, after obtaining his B.A. in Chemistry from Kalamazoo College, and his B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan. In addition to holding a full-time position in Specialty Latex at Dow, Mr. Iwaniw is currently completing requirements for his M.B.A. in Management from Northwood University

Mr. Iwaniw began his career at Dow in a rotational program, with six-month assignments as a Process Engineer (design) in Midland, MI; a Run Plant Engineer for Ethoxylates production in St. Charles, LA; and an...Read more

Meredith Trotta

Meredith Trotta is founder of The Polished Student, a company providing private coaching for college students entering the career world. Before starting The Polished Student, Meredith spent over ten years as a corporate recruiter for Time Inc.’s marketing department in New York City focusing on the hiring of top undergraduate and MBA talent for both internships and full-time jobs.

After graduating from the University of Connecticut, Meredith began her career working in college admissions. She worked in undergraduate admissions for Plymouth State College and UConn, and graduate...Read more

Christos Georgakis

Professor Georgakis is with Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University and the Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering. He received his ChE Diploma in 1970 from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece; his M.S. in 1972 from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Minnesota. Starting in 1975, he served as du Pont Assistant Professor and Edgerton Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT, and as Professor of Measurement and Control at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He joined Lehigh University in 1983...Read more

Justin R. Swift

Justin R. Swift is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Affairs in the Office of Fossil Energy. Mr. Swift, a Washington, D.C., native, is responsible for oversight of export and import activities within the Office of Clean Coal and the Office of Oil and Natural Gas and Petroleum Technology.  He also participates in the activities of the Carbon Sequestration Leadership Forum (CSLF), a coalition of 21 nations and the European Union dedicated to research and development that will allow continued reliance on fossil...Read more

Mark Harper

Harper is owner and CEO of United Energy, established in 1995 primarily as a bulk plant operations selling fuel and lubricants, United Energy has grown from a small town jobber to a multi-state wholesale marketer selling and delivering over 100 million gallons annually in over a 5 state area including Motor grade fuels, Alternative fuels, lubricants, and specialty services including procurement strategies, contract management, and inventory management. Harper, originally from Toledo, Ohio and a graduate of the University of Toledo, has worked in the oil industry since 1988. Prior to...Read more

Douglas Clark

Douglas S. Clark is currently Dean of the College of Chemistry and Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and holds the endowed G.N. Lewis Chair. Prior to his appointment as dean, Clark served as Department Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Executive Associate Dean in the College of Chemistry. Clark has been a faculty member at Berkeley since 1986. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of

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Michael Matthews, Ph. D.

Matthews is the chair of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. Matthews received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University.

Professor Peter Zandstra, PhD, FRSC, PEng

Dr. Peter Zandstra graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree from McGill University in the Department of Chemical Engineering, and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, under the supervision of Jamie Piret and Connie Eaves. He continued his research training as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the field of Bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with Doug Lauffenburger).  In 1999, Dr. Zandstra began his faculty appointment at the University of Toronto’s (UofT’s) Institute...Read more

Julia V. Bukowski

Dr. Julia V. Bukowski is a systems engineer with over 30 years experience in reliability and safety modeling and analysis. She has authored over 50 technical papers in these areas. She is a key consultant to Systems Applications Associates, LLC, a consulting firm providing engineering support activities in the private, industrial, commercial, and governmental sectors. She has been a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania and is currently affiliated with Villanova University.Read more

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