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July 2014

Entrepreneurship for Engineers: Idea to Reality

July 17, 2014
Thursday, July 24, 2014,
9:00pm to 10:00pm
EDT
The VLS is honored to have Dennis Baranik (COO) and Dr. Heather Byrne (Research Director) of Carbonxt, a startup producer of advanced activated carbons for environmental separations. They will discuss the innovation, leadership, and passion required to start a technical enterprise. The talk will...Read more

2014 AIChE CCPS Asia-Pacific Conference

July 17, 2014
July 17, 2014

The 2014 AIChE CCPS Asia-Pacific Conference will take place on August 7-8, 2014 in Perth, Australia. It will be preceded by a pre-conference workshop on August 6, 2014.

Eric Peterson

Dr. Eric Peterson is currently a Senior Manager at Exponent, Inc, where he performs technical process safety and risk analyses within Exponent’s Thermal Sciences practice. Employing his chemical engineering expertise, coupled with that of physics and meteorology, Dr. Peterson provides engineering guidance in the design and verification for all or part of facilities and systems....Read more

David Reed

David Reed is a staff scientist in the Biological and Chemical Processing Department at Idaho National Laboratory. He has specialized in molecular microbiological approaches for extremophilic enzyme expression, detection, and characterization. He is involved in engineering novel enzymes and microorganisms for improving value-added products from biomass at high-temperature and/or acidic conditions. Currently he is developing a biological strategy for recovery of rare earth elements from recyclable materials. (click name for full bio)Read more

Corby Anderson

Dr. Corby Anderson has over 35 years of global experience in industrial operations, management, engineering, design, consulting, teaching, research and professional service. He is a native of Butte, America. His career includes positions with Morton Thiokol, Key Tronic Corporation, Sunshine Mining and Refining Company, H. A. Simons Ltd. and at Montana Tech. He holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering and an MSc and PhD in Metallurgical Engineering. He currently serves as the Harrison Western Professor in the Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy as part of the George S. Ansell Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines. (click name for full bio)Read more

Susannah Scott

Scott received her B.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Alberta (Canada) in 1987, and her Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Iowa State University in 1991, where she worked with J. Espenson and A. Bakac on the activation of O2 and organic oxidations. She was a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow with Jean-Marie Basset at the Institut de recherches sur la catalyse (CNRS) in Lyon, France, before joining the faculty of the University of Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry. She moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2003, where she is currently holds joint faculty appointments in both Chemical Engineering and Chemistry & Biochemistry. (click name for full bio)Read more

Karen Pickering

Dr. Karen Pickering has worked at NASA’s Johnson Space Center since 1991, working in water recovery systems technology development in roles ranging from subsystem engineer to project manager.

She is currently the Deputy Chief of the Thermal Systems Branch, leading engineers responsible for active thermal control of the International Space Station as well as development of advanced thermal technologies. 

Dr. Pickering earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Texas A&M University. She earned Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees...Read more

Mark Caffarey

Mark Caffarey is Executive Vice-President for Umicore USA Inc. He is based in Raleigh, NC. He graduated with a degree in Chemical Engineering from Brussels University in 1983. After graduation, he joined Umicore in 1984. (click name for full bio)Read more

Alex H. King

Alex King was born and raised in London. He attended the University of Sheffield as an undergraduate and earned his doctorate from Oxford. He was a postdoc at Oxford and then M.I.T. before joining the faculty at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where he also served as the Vice Provost for Graduate Studies (Dean of the Graduate School). He was the Head of the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue in from 1999 to 2007, the Director of DOE’s Ames Laboratory from 2008 until 2013, and since June 2013 he has been the Director of the Critical Materials Institute – one of DOE’s Energy Innovation Hubs. (click name for full bio)Read more

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