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This year's Corporate Innovation Award winner was Corning Incorporated. Established in 2008, this award recognizes a company that employs a significant number of chemical engineers and exhibits exceptional innovation in research and development, development of new technologies, technology transfer or in bringing new products to the marketplace.
Marc Giroux, senior vice president and chief engineer at Corning, delivered the Corporate Innovation Lecture, titled "A Long Tradition of Innovation which Matters." Corning is the world leader in specialty glass and ceramics. Drawing on more than 160 years of materials science and process engineering knowledge, Corning creates and makes keystone components and materials that enable high-technology systems for consumer electronics, mobile emissions control, telecommunications and life sciences. The company grows primarily by internal innovation and at the very core of this is a significant industrial R&D lab and engineering center in Corning, NY.
In his lecture, Giroux addressed the link between chemical engineering and the technology behind innovations in glass and ceramics. He also reviewed some of the prominent innovations in Corning's history and covered some current innovations in more detail, highlighting the impact chemical engineers have on them as well as the impact some of these innovations may have on chemical engineers.
Marc S. Giroux joined Corning Incorporated in 1978 as a Process Engineer in Corning, NY, working on the manufacturing process to support the early days of optical fiber commercialization. For the next 20 years, he held various positions of manufacturing and engineering leadership in that business in the United States and Europe. A highlight for that business was winning the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award in 1995.