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March 2020

Postponement of 2020 Spring Meeting & 16th Global Congress on Process Safety

In February, AIChE formed a task force to actively monitor the development and impact of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) on global travel and to minimize risk to attendees of our events. On Monday March 9, the AIChE Board of Directors approved a postponement of the AIChE Spring Meeting & Global...

2020 UC Chemical Engineering Design Exposition -- RESCHEDULED

March 9, 2020
Saturday, April 11, 2020, 9:00am EDT to Monday, April 20, 2020, 9:00pm EDT
Every year the Chemical Engineering seniors at the University of Cincinnati present their senior design projects in a poster forum, the Senior Design Exposition. AIChE-OVS co-sponsors this event, providing judges and awards. Due to Ohio's Stay-at-Home order, this year's event will be held in a...Read more

Ohio Valley Section Reboot!

The leadership team for the Ohio Valley Section (OVS) is thankful for the continuing support of AIChE members in the Greater Cincinnati area. We’ve been dormant for a while, but are planning a reboot of both professional and fun activities of your choosing for 2020. We are confident that we can...

ChE Problem Solving: The Double Diamond Approach

March 9, 2020
March 17, 2020

Problem have you stumped and not sure how to proceed? Try this approach to systematically find a solution to even complex problems.

Alexander Urban

Alex Urban is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, one of the core-members of the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center (CEEC), and an affiliate member of the Columbia Data Science Institute. Research in his group focuses on understanding and discovering materials for clean-energy applications using atomic-scale modeling and data science.

Alex obtained his PhD from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany for the development of a coarse-grained electronic structure theory method. He then joined Gerbrand Ceder’s group in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT...Read more

Carly Filgueira

Dr. Carly Filgueira obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry Magna Cum Laude from The George Washington University in Washington, DC. In her second year as an undergraduate, she was awarded the A.D. Britt scholarship which sponsored her to perform research in the Chemistry Department at GWU under the direction of Dr. J. Houston Miller. She continued in the Miller lab until undergraduate graduation, where they worked on the application of UV-VIS spectroscopy and elastic/inelastic light scattering to examine the chemistry between gold nanoparticles and biopolymers.

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Nongnuch Artrith

Nongnuch Artrith is a Research Scientist in Chemical Engineering at Columbia University partially funded by the Center for Functional Nanomaterials at Brookhaven National Lab.  Nong received her PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (Prof. Jörg Behler).  She was awarded a Schlumberger fellowship for postdoctoral research at MIT with Prof. Alexie Kolpak and subsequently joined Prof. Gerbrand Ceder’s group at UC Berkeley as a research specialist.  Nong applies computational methods to understand and design realistic materials for energy storage and...Read more

Tal Sholklapper

Dr. Tal Sholklapper is the CEO of Voltaiq. Before co-founding Voltaiq, Dr. Sholklapper was the lead engineer on a DOE ARPA-E funded project at the CUNY Energy Institute, developing an ultra-low-cost grid-scale battery. Prior to his work at CUNY, Dr. Sholklapper co-founded Point Source Power, a low-cost fuel-cell startup based on technology he developed while at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Dr. Sholklapper has a BS in Physics and Applied Mathematics and an MS and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley, where he holds the distinction of completing the fastest...Read more

Cheryl Smyre

Cheryl leads the Parkdale Advanced Materials division, with a keen focus on the creation of new fiber technologies and delivering sustainable innovative solutions to the textile industry.

During her 23-year career with Parkdale, she has led International Sales, Global Supply Chain and Customer Relations.   Her International Business degree from the University of South Carolina and multi-cultural background, have served as an asset to the company on a global scale. Cheryl resides in Gastonia NC with her proud NCSU alum husband, Deric and son, Caleb.

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Edwin Keh

Mr Keh is the CEO of The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel. He is also on Faculty at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology where he teaches supply chain operations.

Until April 2010 Edwin was the SVP COO of Wal-Mart Global Procurement. Prior to Wal-Mart Edwin managed a consulting group that has done work for companies on supply chain, manufacturing, and product design. The practice also did work for non-profit organizations and charities. Edwin co-founded the Consortium For Operational Excellence in...Read more

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