Amy Theis received her B.S.E. from University of Iowa and is a registered PE in the state of IL.
She has been employed by Fauske for 16 years and currently serves as the Director of Risk Management Services. Areas of expertise include hazard identification for reactive chemical systems, flammability hazards and combustible dust.
She has performed training worldwide for calorimetry test design and operation, emergency relief system design and preventive and protective strategies for managing combustible dust hazards.
She is an active participant in CCPS and is currently...Read more
When working with potentially hazardous materials, it’s important to have the right tools to handle them. This introductory course reviews the tools...
Dr. Manousiouthakis received his Diploma, M.S., and Ph.D. degrees all in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1981) and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1985, 1986) respectively. Dr. Manousiouthakis has over 100 refereed journal publications, 2 patents, numerous conference publications and presentations, and has supervised 16 PhD students, many of which are in academic positions. He has received the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1988), the Northrop Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award (1989) the AIChE Ted Petersen Best Student Paper...Read more
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
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
Pradeep Jain is a Senior Fellow for Feedstocks, Elastomers, E&T, Olefins, Aromatics & Alternatives, Packaging, H&M, and Polyethylene, Licensing & Catalyst, A&FM Technology.
Pradeep Jain started at The Dow Chemical Company in 1989 as a Research Engineer in Specialty Polyolefin’s. Over the past 25 years, he has led the process development for the proprietary olefins polymerization technologies including INSITETM and INFUSETM. Pradeep’s significant innovations in solution polyolefin process technology have helped...Read more
Walt Frank is President of Frank Risk Solutions, Inc. and is a Fellow of both the AIChE and the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS). He received his BSChE from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 1973 and has worked in the process industries in various capacities for over 45 years, beginning as a lab technician for Pfizer while working his way through college. After graduation, he joined DuPont where, over 14 years, he held positions in plant technical support, manufacturing supervision, R&D, project design, and project start-up. He subsequently moved to...Read more
