This series introduces the recipients of AIChE’s 2022 Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards, AIChE’s highest honors. Recipients are nominated by the chemical engineering community and voted upon by the members of AIChE’s volunteer-led Awards Committee. The Board of Directors’ Award honorees are nominated by the community and selected by AIChE’s Executive Committee.
Cato T. Laurencin Selected as AIChE’s 2022 Founders Award Recipient
Dr. Laurencin is being recognized for his breakthrough achievements in the science and engineering of soft tissue implants.
UC Santa Barbara’s Rachel Segalman Is the 2022 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient
Dr. Segalman is being recognized for pioneering studies of functional soft materials, including semiconducting block polymers, polymeric ionic liquids, and hybrid thermoelectric materials.
MIT’s Patrick Doyle Is AIChE’s Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient for 2022
Doyle is being recognized for the invention of new microfluidic approaches to synthesize and manipulate soft matter, including flow lithography to create highly encoded microparticles and advanced materials.
Paul Larsen of Corteva Agriscience Named AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient for 2022
Paul Larsen is being recognized for his innovative contributions to crystallization technology and mentorship of future scientists.
Dow’s Paul Witt to Receive 2022 Evans Award in Chemical Engineering Practice
Witt is being recognized for expanded leadership in process technology innovation at Dow and at AIChE’s RAPID Manufacturing Institute through effective people-leadership and valuable technical contributions in reaction engineering and process optimization.
Fikile Brushett of MIT Is AIChE’s 2022 Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient
Fikile Brushett is being honored for pioneering advances in understanding and controlling fundamental processes governing performance, cost, and lifetime of flow electrochemical systems for energy storage and conversion.
Timothy Hebrink of 3M to Receive AIChE’s Energy and Sustainability Award
Hebrink is being honored for his technical leadership and for developing and supporting technology that has resulted in significant energy savings and increased sustainability.
Jose E. Tabora of Bristol Myers Squibb Named AIChE’s 2022 Industrial R&D Award Recipient
Tabora is being recognized for his work in the development and characterization of drug substance processes through innovations in modeling, design of experimentation, data analysis, and visualization.
Rena Bizios of UT San Antonio Chosen to Receive AIChE’s Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award
Bizios is being recognized for her pioneering contributions to chemical engineering bioengineering; for leadership in cellular engineering, regenerative engineering, and medicine; and for leadership in women’s causes in chemical engineering.
Hans Wijmans of Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., to Receive AIChE’s Award for Industrial Gases Technology
Wijmans is being honored for contributions to fundamental membrane transport research, membrane application research, and the development of the VaporSep process for hydrocarbon recovery in polyolefin manufacturing operations.
An Interview with Christopher Pope, Recipient of AIChE’s Award for Service to Society
Dr. Pope is being recognized for contributions that emphasize a concern for the common good, a willingness to give time and comfort, and the ability to draw together varied resources to solve problems.
Ohio State’s L.-S. Fan Receives AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education
L.-S. Fan is being honored for his multifaceted chemical engineering education contributions, which include outstanding teaching, superior textbooks, student and faculty mentoring, and outreach leadership to diverse groups, the general public, and K-12 students.
Penn State’s Phillip Savage Named 2022 R. H. Wilhelm Award Recipient
Savage is being recognized for innovation and leadership in advancing the fields of hydrothermal kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering for renewable energy and green chemistry applications.
Christine Seymour to Receive 2022 Van Antwerpen Award for Service to AIChE
The Van Antwerpen Award recognizes Seymour for her volunteer leadership contributions to AIChE over more than 25 years.
Terry Papoutsakis of the Univ. of Delaware to Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature
Papoutsakis is being honored for contributions to cell culture engineering, metabolic engineering, the genetics and genomics of Clostridia, and stem and T-cell engineering that provide the underpinnings of molecular-based biological engineering.