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May 2021

Virtual Seminar Announcement

The Baton Rouge section is hosting two 4-hour seminars on 5/14 and 5/21 on the topics of process control and fired heaters respectively. PDHs are available including one on ethics (5/14). Details and registration are located at the website. https://www.aiche.org/community/sites/local-sections/baton...

Bill Evanko

Bill is currently the Vice-president of Process Development & Engineering at Provivi, a company dedicated to improving crop protection for farmers and food supply across the globe.  His responsibilities include the development, technical transfer and scale-up of biological and chemical synthesis for commercial production of active ingredients for pheromone-based agricultural pest control products.

Bill Evanko has over 30 years of experience in the engineering field, including process development and manufacturing, with a specialization in process modeling, kinetics, and...Read more

UEF Application - PACE

We are pleased to be hosting the Pandemic Advance Capabilities & Engineering (PACE), made possible by the support of the United Engineering Foundation (UEF). The registration will be 100% covered by the UEF, and we will send you login information after recording your response to the following questions.

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Celebrating the Minority Affairs Committee’s 30th Anniversary with New Awards

May 13, 2021
May 25, 2021

AIChE is accepting nominations for three new named awards that honor the founding members of its Minority Affairs Committee (MAC).

Robert A. Baffi

Robert A. Baffi, Ph.D., joined BioMarin in May 2000 and currently serves as President of Global Manufacturing & Technical Operations, responsible for overseeing manufacturing, process development, quality, and analytical chemistry departments. From 1986 to 2000, Dr. Baffi served in a number of increasingly responsible positions at Genentech, Inc., primarily in the functional area of quality control. Prior to Genentech, Dr. Baffi worked for Cooper BioMedical as a Research Scientist and at Becton Dickinson Research Center as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. Dr. Baffi has contributed to more than...Read more

Steffen Gross

Steffen Gross has extensive experience in molecular and cell biology. Mr. Gross joined the Paul-Ehrlich Institute in 2005 and became Head of the Section monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies in 2012. He is involved in the assessment of the quality and preclinical issues for marketing authorization applications, scientific advices and clinical trial applications. Until 2012 Mr. Gross was laboratory head of the section monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies and involved in testing of immunoglobulins, immunsera and monoclonal antibodies as well as in planning and performing research projects....Read more

Bounce Back from a Career Challenge: Pandemic Fallout Edition

May 13, 2021
May 13, 2021

Has the pandemic caused a career setback or undesirable job situation? Regroup and rebuild with these career tips to turn a seeming roadblock into an opportunity.

Wandering Bard Meadery

May 12, 2021
Tour preview for May 2021 meeting

Joel Paulson

Joel A. Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU) where he is also a core faculty member of the Sustainability Institute (SI) and an affiliate of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI). He joined OSU in 2019 after completing his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Chemical Engineering and a subsequent postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley in the area of systems and control theory. He was the recent winner of...Read more

Sweta Somasi

Summary of Qualifications

Research and Development scientist and project leader with almost 20 years of industrial experience.  Expertise in reaction engineering and data analytics with successful projects in the design of new products and processes, optimization of current processes, and trouble-shooting of plant upsets in Corteva and Dow operations around the globe.

Led team for Data Analytics in Corteva and launched...Read more

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