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William A. Aslaner

William A. Aslaner graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 and began his employment with ExxonMobil in the same year. He has spent most of his career in the Steam Cracking Pyrolysis group and is currently the lead process engineer. Some career highlights include designing new furnaces and evaluating and validating new technologies. Most recently, he has had the opportunity to bring the ExxonMobil hydrogen burner from the proof-of-concept design to the first commercial application. Outside of work, Aslaner enjoys spending time with his family. He has been happily married...Read more

David B. Spicer

David B. Spicer received a bachelor of mechanical engineering with honors from the Univ. of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. In 1979, he joined the Altona Petrochemical Company, a 50/50 Exxon/Mobil joint-venture ethylene plant near Melbourne, Australia. Throughout his career, Spicer has worked in a variety of plant support, technology development and commercialization, project design, and project start-up roles across ExxonMobil’s olefins business. Spicer has authored several patents in the fields of cracking furnace design, burner design, and olefins plant configuration. He currently...Read more

Daniel J. Benac, P.E.

Daniel J. Benac, P.E., is a Certified Fire and Explosion Investigator (CFEI), an ASM Fellow, and a senior principal engineer at Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants, Inc., who manages BakerRisk’s materials laboratory, located in San Antonio, TX (Email: dbenac@bakerrisk.com). He has forty years of experience investigating and solving materials engineering and structural integrity problems for the oil and gas, refinery, ammonia, chemical, pipeline, nuclear, aerospace, and other industries. For the ammonia and fertilizer industries, he has led...Read more

Dorothy M. Shaffer

Dorothy M. Shaffer is a Principal Consultant with BakerRisk. Initially working as a production plant process engineer and project engineer with Terra International, she rose to Director of Risk and Reliability and implemented several corporate-wide reliability improvement programs. She left Terra for independent consultant work on Hurricane Katrina Recovery, supporting the Gulf Coast DuPont rebuild efforts. Shaffer joined BakerRisk in 2007, doing associate consulting work and subject matter expert support. She served on the AIChE Ammonia Symposium Committee from 2004 to 2023.Read more

Murtaza I. Gandhi, P.E.

Murtaza I. Gandhi, P.E., is a Professional Electrical Engineer with over 20 years in the process industry with more than 13 years of experience in process safety and functional safety areas (Email: mgandhi@bakerrisk.com). He is a Principal Engineer with BakerRisk and focuses on qualitative risk management as well as low-carbon energy risk management services. He has experience leading many hazard assessments and audits for ammonia facilities. Gandhi has a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers Univ. He has been awarded...Read more

Stephen Calabrese

Stephen Calabrese, CPP, PMP, is a recognized expert in assessing and mitigating risks associated with transporting high-risk cargo, including hazardous materials and energy sector commodities. He has over 25 years of leadership in security, regulatory compliance, and emergency management. As the Americas Manager and Senior Principal Consultant at AcuTech, Calabrese specializes in risk management for complex global supply chains, regulatory compliance, and crisis preparedness. His work includes leading the industry in conducting maritime transportation risk assessments for the recent surge...Read more

Kenton Eriksen

Kenton Eriksen is a Process Consultant at Siemens Energy, having joined the company in 2023. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Purdue Univ. Eriksen has extensive experience in process simulations and pressure relief analysis for the oil and gas industry and has been part of the Venture Client program at Siemens Energy on energy and cybersecurity.Read more

David De Carvalho

David De Carvalho is an Engineering Manager at Siemens Energy with over 16 years of industrial project experience with a specialization in managing complex, multidisciplinary designs. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from the Federal Univ. of Uberlândia, Brazil, and an MBA from IETEC Brazil. Carvalho has leveraged his extensive engineering expertise to develop solutions aimed at reducing carbon emissions in industrial settings.Read more

Christopher Ng, P.E

Christopher Ng, P.E., is a Senior Process Consultant at Siemens Energy with over 25 years of experience in process engineering and plant design. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science in chemical engineering from Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada. He has a solid understanding of conventional and renewable energy technologies applicable to diverse operating plants and is a licensed professional engineer in Texas.Read more

2025 AIChE Annual Student Conference

October 31, 2025 to November 3, 2025
John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center, Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston
The 2025 AIChE ASC is four days of career information, social events, competitions, and fun. Student engineers from more than 200 schools celebrate the ChemE profession along with young professional members, AIChE leaders, and industry professionals.

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