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December 2015

Steven Coleman

Steve has been an active member of AIChE since 1971.  A graduate of  Bucknell University with a BS in Chemical Engineering, Steve has over the past 40+ years held a variety of technical and supervisory positions associated primarily with the manufacture of ethylene.   He currently holds the position of Senior Advisor within LyondellBasell Industries. 

Steve’s involvement with the Fuels and Petrochemicals division began in 1994, when he represented Equistar on F&PD’s Ethylene Producers’ Committee (EPC).  During his 13 years on the...Read more

MaryKathryn (Kathy) Lee

MaryKathryn (Kathy) Lee has been a researcher at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research for 30 years. She has been an active AIChE member for more than 10 years and was recently elected Fellow.Read more

Saadet Ulas Acikgoz

Saadet has been working for UOP-Honeywell for the past seven years. She is currently the manager of R&D Process Design Development group. Prior to that, she was a Gas Processing Specialist in R&D, where she was working on developing new technologies to remove contaminants from natural gas and syngas from coal gasification. Prior to that, she worked as a Process Development Specialist in R&D, where she was accountable for designing, scaling up and optimizing new process technologies for commercialization. During her career at UOP, she co-authored several UOP...Read more

Cheryl Teich

Cheryl Teich was the 2015 AIChE President.

Cheryl Teich formed Teich Process Development LLC in 2019 after retiring from The Dow Chemical Company as the Reaction Engineering Expertise Area Leader within the Company’s Operations (Manufacturing and Engineering) organization.  Cheryl led a virtual, global group of experts, charged with providing reaction engineering expertise across the corporation over a wide range of development and manufacturing scales.  Cheryl joined Dow in 2009 during its acquisition of Rohm and Haas, having joined the latter after earning her PhD....Read more

Sharon Glotzer

Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan, is the John Werner Cahn Distinguished University Professor of Engineering and the Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering, and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, Applied Physics, and Macromolecular Science and Engineering.  She is member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the American Physical Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She received the B.S. degree from the University of California, Los...Read more

Lin Li

Lin Li is a Senior Staff Research Engineer at Chevron Energy Technology Company, Richmond, CA, and has over 20 years’ academic and industrial experiences in research and development in the area of reaction engineering and separation technology. He received BS, MS and Ph. D. degree in Chemical Engineering from Tianjin University (Tianjin, China) in 1983, 1986 and 1989, respectively, and then started his academic career at Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). During his tenure at Tsinghua, in addition to teaching and research, he served as the Vice Chairman of Department of Chemical...Read more

Raymond Collins

Dr. Ray Collins serves as an expert for solid-liquid separations at The Dow Chemical Co., leading applied engineering research that supports diverse Dow operations worldwide. In this role, he develops solutions for new processes, troubleshoots existing operations, guides technology selection and best practices, investigates new technology, and conducts technical training. 

Ray holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Akron, Six Sigma Green Belt certification, and patents for filtrations used in producing catalysts and seed oils. His industrial experience...Read more

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