March 2012

The award is primarily honorary in nature.

Selection criteria includes:

• Long and recognized record in the nominee's areas of achievement.
• A chemical engineer and preferably an AIChE member.
• Awardees are selected based on a combination of technical achievement, management skills, business acumen, academic leadership and general service to the profession.
• Selection shall be balanced between the fuels and petrochemicals industries.

Send nominations to the Fuels & Petrochemicals Division Past Chair; E-mail: pastchair@aiche-fpd.org

Nomination Form

The Student Chapters Committee sponsors a $200 prize for first place, a $100 prize for second place, and $50 for third place. First, second, and third place winners also receive a one-year subscription to Chemical Engineering Progress magazine.

A plaque and $200 for each award recipient.

For consideration for the award, the following should be submitted:

1. a single paper contributing to separations fundamentals or applications. This paper may be co-authored by others, but the student nominee must have been the primary author. The paper should be of a quality acceptable for publication in journals such as the AIChE Journal or Chemical Engineering Science.
2. a single nomination letter detailing the student's strengths and accomplishments, writtenby a faculty member, who must be a member of AIChE.
3. The student's CV

To be eligible for this year’s awards, the nominees must currently be graduate students or have been graduate students since the last AIChE Annual meeting. Nominations are due May 1st.

The selection criteria include:

1.The paper must report on research, investigation or design, and must be part of the student's work for a graduate degree.

2.The paper may be co-authored by others, but the student nominee must have been the primary author.

3.The paper should be of a quality acceptable for publication in journals such as the AIChE Journal and Chemical Engineering Science.

4.Papers will be judged on technical content, quality of writing, and organization.

5.The person nominating a student must be a member of AIChE.

Submit nomination packets to 190proofsummers@gmail.com , joshua.thompson@chevron.com and cj@aquamembranes.com.   All submissions must be electronic. Nomination letters must be submitted in Adobe Acrobat format or Microsoft Word.

Recognizing his support and overall long-term commitment to student development in the membranes area, the Professor Dibakar Bhattacharyya Graduate Student Research Award has been established to recognize outstanding graduate student research in this area from the nominations received.

A $300 Graduate Student Research Award, sponsored by Fractionation Research Incorporated (FRI), is given from the nominations received, to acknowledge exceptional graduate student research in the field of Distillation and Absorption. The award is named after José Luis Bravo, who was a passionate advocate of Distillation Research and Separations Equipment. Over the course of his career at UT Austin, Shell, Jaeger Products, and FRI, José devoted himself to the study of Distillation and Absorption. The award is a testament to his lifelong dedication to this field.