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September 2015

Rafiqul Gani

Professor Rafiqul Gani has been a pioneering researcher and thought leader in the field of process systems engineering (PSE), and sustainability has been an integral component of his work for more than 30 years. He has made seminal contributions in both education and research through his scholarly papers/presentations as well as tools/software, which continue to impact chemical engineering students and practitioners worldwide. He has coauthored 1 textbook, 5 edited books, 38 book chapters, and 522 refereed papers, which have been cited an impressive ~18,000 times and resulted in an h-index...Read more

Carl Laird

Carl Laird is an associate professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University. His research focuses on high-performance computing, mathematical programming, and modeling of complex systems, with applications in critical infrastructure protection, process operation and safety, and infectious disease modeling. He is the recipient of several research and teaching awards, including the prestigious Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software based on his work on IPOPT. He is also a recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Development (CAREER) Award and the...Read more

Fossil Forward: Recommendations for Bringing Scale & Speed to CCS

In January 2015, the National Coal Council (NCC) released a report prepared at the request of Energy Secretary Moniz assessing the value and effectiveness DOE’s CCS/CCUS program.

Daniel Hickman

DANIEL A. HICKMAN, PhD, is a Sr. R&D Fellow in the engineering and process science department of Dow’s Core Research & Development. He received his BS in chemical engineering from Iowa State Univ. and his PhD in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Minnesota. Hickman holds 23 U.S. patents and has authored 29 journal articles and book chapters and more than 200 internal Dow reports. He was named the Mid-Michigan AIChE Chemical Engineer of the Year in 2014 and received the CRE Practice Award from the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division of AIChE in 2015....Read more

Dongsheng Liu

Dongsheng Liu learned polymer sciences in University of Science and Technology of China and graduated with a B.S. degree in 1993. He then worked as a research associate in the Institute of Chemistry, CAS for six years and earned his Master degree on polymer chemistry in 1999. From 1999 to 2002, he finished his Ph.D study on the self-templated DNA circularization in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the supervision of Professor Albert S. C. Chan. In 2003, he joined the Chemistry Department of Cambridge University as a postdoc research associate, worked on DNA nanotechnology with...Read more

Career opportunity with the US EPA

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Center for Chemical Process Safety Names Richard Sarnie New Projects Director

September 9, 2015
Richard Sarnie, an executive with more than 25 years of experience in risk management and safety, has joined the staff of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as Director of CCPS...

Fan is Named AIChE's 67th Institute Lecturer

L. S. Fan
September 9, 2015
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced its Institute Lecturer for 2015. Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor and the C. J. Easton Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The...

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