June 2017

Lori McDowell, PhD, is a Fellow of AIChE, Past Chair of AIChE’s Fellows Council and the Fuels and Petrochemical Div., and a chemical engineer with more than 30 years of experience in the refining and petrochemical industries. She currently serves as Chief Commercial Officer at Refinery Calculator, Inc., an energy data company, where she leads the sales team.

She is the founder of Reimagine U Strategies, a coaching and consulting firm where she helps high-achieving STEM professionals — primarily women — gain clarity, confidence, and alignment in their careers and lives. A dynamic...Read more

Joseph D. Smith works at Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology (MST; previously Missouri Rolla) and leads Elevated Analytics Consulting as Chief Technology Officer. He has served AIChE as a Director (2014–2016), Institute Treasurer (2017), and Secretary (2019–2021), and is a Fellow of the Institute. He has served on AIChE’s Local Sections and Student Chapters committees for over twenty years. His previous career includes the Dow Chemical Co., Cabot Corp., Koch Industries, and Idaho National Laboratory. He formed Elevated Analytics Consulting in 2006 and led a joint venture with CD-...Read more