BILL CELENZA, P.E., is a process engineer in Burns & McDonnell’s Water Group and has over 20 years of experience executing design engineering projects for the petrochemical, oil refining, and power industries. His primary expertise is design of environmental processes, including water and wastewater treatment systems, environmental permitting, and industrial waste and hazardous-materials management. He graduated from Villanova Univ. with a BS in chemical engineering and is a licensed professional engineer in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In addition, he is a board certified...Read more
Chris Ng, P.E., is a technical advisor at Siemens Energy, Inc., with more than 18 years of process engineering experience in the upstream and downstream industry, as well as expertise in process design and modeling, process safety, and hazard and risk analysis. He has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Western Ontario (Canada) and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas.Read more
Addie Cormier is a lead safety consultant at Siemens Energy, Inc. She has more than 20 years of analytical and technical experience, and more than 10 years of experience in process safety. She has expertise in process design and process safety, steady-state flare modeling, and process hazard and risk analyses. She holds bachelor’s degrees in chemical engineering and chemistry from Prairie View A&M (Prairie View, TX) and a master’s degree in advanced safety engineering management from the Univ. of Alabama (Birmingham, AL).Read more
Adam Goff is a principal at 8 Rivers Capital, a firm which invents and commercializes sustainable infrastructure technology. 8 Rivers invented the Allam Cycle and the NET Power joint venture that uses that technology. NET Power has raised over $150m from Exelon, McDermott, and Occidental Petroleum. Adam leads on business development for a number of 8 Rivers’ projects and is also Director of Policy for the firm. Adam has a degree from Yale University, and was formerly Chief of Staff at ClearPath, a $165 million foundation that advances dispatchable clean energy.Read more
Dr. Thelen is a professor at Michigan State University, Plant, Soil & Microbial Sciences Department and the Great Lakes BioEnergy Research Center. His research program is focused on developing crop systems that increase food, feed, and energy security while safeguarding soil, air, water, and biodiversity....Read more
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Chemical engineers continue to earn more than the average U.S. worker. The median salary of survey respondents is $126,000 — 1.6% higher than the median reported in 2017.
June
2019
The results of AIChE’s biennial salary survey are in, revealing positive advances for the chemical engineering profession. The median annual salary of respondents to the 2019 survey is $126,000 — a 1.6% increase over the 2017 median of $124,000.