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Christina Smolke

Christina D. Smolke is Professor, Associate Chair of Education, and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. Christina’s academic research program develops foundational tools that drive transformative advances in our ability to engineering biology.

Professor Smolke's research program focuses on developing modular genetic platforms for programming information processing and control functions in living systems, resulting in transformative technologies for engineering, manipulating, and...Read more

W. Mark Saltzman


W. Mark Saltzman, is Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Chemical & Environmental Engineering at Yale University.

Interests

Saltzman's research is motivated by the desire to create safer and more effective medical and surgical therapy. He focuses on tissue engineering and on creating better methods for drug delivery. His group has developed technology based on the use of bio-compatible polymeric materials for the controlled delivery of drugs, proteins, and genes. They have also developed new polymeric materials that influence the growth and...Read more

Shuming Nie

Shuming Nie  is the Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Chair in Biomedical Engineering & Professor and Director for Emory-Georgia Tech Cancer Nanotechnology Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Areas of Research

      Our research is in the areas of biomolecular engineering and nanotechnology, with a focus on bioconjugated nanoparticles for cancer molecular imaging, molecular profiling, pharmacogenomics, and targeted therapy. Specific topics include the following:

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Joe DeSimone

Joe DeSimone is the Chancellor's Eminent Professor of Chemistry at University of North Carolina; and William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Research Interests

Applying the lithographic fabrication technologies from the computer industry for the design and synthesis of new medicines and vaccines; Nanomedicine; Interventional oncology; Medical devices; Inhalable therapeutics; Fluoropolymers: photolithography, fuel cells, microfluidics, minimally adhesive surfaces; Colloid, surfactant and surface chemistry;...Read more

Paul Dauenhauer, UMass Amherst, Delivers High-Yield Bio-Plastics

May 24, 2012
May 24, 2012


Local Sections Newsletters

In order to foster closer communication between Local Sections and the global AIChE organization the Local Sections Committee quarterly newsletter will be posted. This will provide a central, local resource of information on everything AIChE . Recent LSC Quarterly Newsletters April 2018 December...

Mr. Steven M. Weisser

Steven Weisser is a Senior Scientist in the Biopharmaceutical Development group at GlaxoSmithKline, where he works on downstream processing of therapeutic proteins.  In this role, he is responsible for developing and characterizing purification processes and transferring them from the lab scale to manufacturing facilities for GMP production of a biopharmaceutical product.

Prior to joining GSK, Steven worked in the process development group at ImClone Systems Incorporated, where he developed and transferred purification processes for early-phase and commercially approved...Read more

Dr. Shankar Vaidyaraman

Dr. Vaidyaraman is Associate Senior Consultant engineer for Chemical Product R&D at Eli Lilly and Company in Indiana. He joined Eli Lilly and worked for seven years in Marketing employing analytics to support business decisions. His current role for the past four years has been to support process definition and optimization activities within Chemical Product R&D at Eli Lilly and Company.

He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Penn State University in 2001.Read more

Project Connect Grants

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Award

In this program, 4-8 annual grants of $150-$600 each are awarded to sections submitting qualified applications.
DeadlineJuly 31, 2025
AdministratorsLocal Sections Committee (LSC)
PresentationThe Project Connect Subcommittee, in conjunction with the Local Section Executive Committee, will review the applications and distribute the grants within 30 days of the deadlines.
Nomination Instructions

Each section may only receive one grant per programming year (July to June). Sections who receive the grant must submit a summary report of their funded project before they can apply for the grant in the next funding year.

The quarterly deadlines for applications are:

  • March 31st
  • June 30th
  • September 30th
  • December 31st

APPLICATION FORM

Summary Report

Project Connect Grant Programming Ideas

Here are some of the innovative and successful local section programs supported by John J. McKetta Project Connect grants:

  • Engineers' networking banquet
  • Student scholarship and awards night
  • Career night with local recruiters
  • Joint section/student chapter dinner meeting on "Job Interviews- How to Make a Good Impression"
  • "AIChE-Young-ChemE's-Eat-Free" dinner meeting
  • All-day luncheon program on "World Business and Future Growth in Chicago" (including Biotech/Nanotech); followed by networking reception
  • AIChE President Sid Sapakie visits Oregon for AIChE-OSU football weekend; presentation on AIChE member benefits and career guidance for young chemE's
  • Implementation of AIChE Singapore Senior Year Design Award
  • Student poster paper contest
  • Career night with company reps
  • Career guidance forums for local college students on the pros and cons, challenges and rewards of different chemical engineering career paths

The Project Connect Grants for Local Sections were inaugurated in 2001 to assist local sections with their efforts to reach out to students, recent chemical engineering graduates, and new engineers.

Dr. Mark Shmorhun

Dr. Mark Shmorhun, Director of Scale-up and Technology Transfer at Myriant Corporation, has over 20 years of experience in the specialty chemicals and renewable fuels industry. Myriant’s Scale-up and Technology Transfer group is responsible for transitioning process technology from the bench to pilot scale to establish the engineering design basis for commercial scale process equipment and systems. The group combines simulation with process experimentation and bridges Myriant’s research and development, engineering and business development teams.

Prior to joining Myriant, Dr....Read more

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