AIChE celebrated the contributions of Christophe Beck (Ecolab) and Michael K. Wirth (Chevron), and honored Paula T. Hammond (MIT) with the Doing a World of Good Medal.
The top trophy went to the University of Toledo team, with a winning distance of 30.4 cm. See all winners in the 2022 AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition.
Stay informed, see what others are doing, and share your thoughts and photos at the 2022 Annual Meeting and Annual Student Conference.
See the 2022 Chem-E-Car videos from the South Dakota School of Mines, Centro Universitário FEI and Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL).
In addition to regular programming, this year’s Annual Meeting and Annual Student Conference will feature events that showcase AIChE’s efforts towards equity, diversity, and inclusion, and the IDEAL Path.
The report looks at where chemical engineers are making advances, including energy and decarbonization, environmental sustainability, medicine, flexible manufacturing and the circular economy, materials, enabling tools, and education.
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.
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.
See the 2022 Chem-E-Car videos from University of Toronto, Auburn University, Guizhou Institute of Technology, and Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Bogota.
Learn about the fascinating field of optogenetics and what it can accomplish, and find out how researchers are using it today.
Check out the first of the 2022 Chem-E-Car Competition® videos, and stay tuned for more as we share videos from this year’s competitors.
Learn how Acelen has a close eye on process safety at every level of its operations, as it processes 300,000 barrels of oil each day at its Mataripe refinery.
Learn about how Vale would like to help apply CCPS Risk-based Process Safety (RSPS) to the mining, minerals, and metals industries, and hear how the company continues to learn from the process safety lessons of a major incident.
Gaps in process safety can affect not only individual businesses and the communities around them, but also entire industries. Learn about how Latin American companies are working together to face process safety challenges and minimize risk.
Hebrink is being honored for his technical leadership and for developing and supporting technology that has resulted in significant energy savings and increased sustainability.
Flaubert Matos Machado is the General Manager for Strategy and Center of Excellence in Safety, Environment and Health at Petrobras and a keynote speaker at the 9th CCPS Latin American Conference on Process Safety. I spoke with Flaubert about his and Petrobras’ involvement with the conference.
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.
Barrangou looks back on CRISPR progress and ahead to what’s on the horizon for CRISPR and related technology. He also discusses the energizing effect of gathering scientists from diverse fields at the upcoming 5th International Conference on CRISPR Technologies.
This year’s AIChE WISE interns worked with Washington policymakers and researched energy and environmental issues, learning how chemical engineers can affect and contribute to public policy.
Want to know what’s happening in chemical engineering? Check out some of the upcoming highlights at this year’s AIChE Annual Meeting in Phoenix.
Last month, 50+ academic leaders from across the U.S. met in Baltimore to help speed progress towards a more equitable and diverse profession.
Learn about students’ experiences at this regional conference, see photos, and learn how you can get involved in the Annual Student Conference in Phoenix, AZ.
The 2022 edition of the Global HSE Conference convened May 16–19 in Muscat, Oman, where Kadri presented his address at the Youth Forum.
Want to try your hand at beer brewing, or show off existing skills? Create a team with other chemical engineers and show us what you can do at the AIChE Beer Brewing Competition this fall in Phoenix.
How do grad students hone their elevator speech? The Three Minute Thesis Competition! Join us to learn how to present your work effectively to any audience.
See photo highlights from San Antonio, where chemical engineers from 35 countries recently met in person for the 2022 Spring Meeting.
Get updates on happenings, share photos, and connect with other meeting attendees in San Antonio.
In addition to regular programming, this year’s Spring Meeting & GCPS will also feature events that showcase AIChE’s efforts towards equity, diversity, and inclusion and the IDEAL Path.
Check out course, keynote, and session highlights for this year’s Spring Meeting and GCPS in San Antonio, Texas.
Learn what you can expect this month from LPS in San Antonio, TX. There's still time to join us — register today!
Learn how Enablon is helping companies use predictive analytics and AI to help evaluate risk and improve risk management.
Hear from Katie Mulligan, a reactive chemicals expert at Dow and the PSMM Forum Chair, about what you can expect at the 18th GCPS and 11th PSMM.
Jensen Hughes’ Jérôme Taveau shares his top picks for not-to-be-missed sessions and other useful insights for this year’s in-person Global Congress on Process Safety in San Antonio.
Student teams and their 1-cubic-foot plant designs will battle it out this November in Phoenix. Learn more here and sign up before March 31 to join the competition.
Hear about the history of the Society for Biological Engineering from Gregory Stephanopoulos, SBE Founding Leader, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kunjapur and his research group at the University of Delaware are designing innovative biomolecular technologies to address a variety of societal needs.
Participating in the local ChemE Jeopardy team has helped first-year chemical engineering students grow and thrive during the pandemic.
Brigham Young University’s Alexa Lowman-Tucker was awarded the John J. McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship at the 2021 Annual Student Conference.
Three AIChE members were honored for their efforts to bring about better understanding and awareness of diversity, inclusion, and equity issues among chemical engineers.
Hear from a principal scientist at Schrödinger about how modeling is changing product development, and also hear his take on the trends and influences shaping the future of food processing.
Dr. Yan is being recognized for sustained excellence and breakthrough contributions to electrochemical reaction engineering and electrocatalysis.
The top trophy went to the University of Toledo team, with a winning distance of 10 cm. See all winners in the 2021 AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition.
If you’re interested in EDI events, check out the wide variety of options in Boston.
In Boston or simply joining us from home, school, or office? Stay connected with online updates, photos, and more through social media.
More Chem-E-Car competitors give us an inside look at their car, their team, and university — check out the latest videos.
Mike discusses how experts from industry, government, standards groups, academia, and elsewhere are all coming together to share findings and solutions for reducing and managing plastics waste.
Check out the second round of videos of teams and cars in this year’s Chem-E-Car Competition®.
Get a preview of the teams and cars in this year’s Chem-E-Car Competition® in the these videos.
Hear from Ashely about details of the upcoming AIChE STEM Outreach Competition and Showcase, and learn what makes a winning entry and what’s expected of participants.
Dr. Prather is being honored for outstanding contributions to the design, assembly, and enhancement of biological pathways, and for engineering microbial strains for the production of biochemical compounds.
Dr. Paul is being honored as an industrial technical leader who excels at the intersection of product innovation and fundamental polymer science to create products for a more sustainable future.
Dr. Ellis is being honored for groundbreaking polymerization research and for technical leadership resulting in sustainable industrial production of differentiated materials that have enabled multiple businesses and that have ultimately enhanced lives globally.
Dr. Shankar is being recognized for his contributions to industry-academia partnership and technical research in direct air capture and carbon utilization pathways to fuels and chemicals.
Dr. Bao is being honored “for her pioneering work and leadership in the development of organic electronic materials and their applications to skin-inspired electronics.”
India’s AIChE Ahmedabad University Student Chapter hosted the 2021 India Student Regional Conference as a hybrid event.
See some of this year’s AIChE Annual Meeting highlights, and get links to find the information you need most, whether you're attending in-person or virtually.
H. Scott Fogler, the Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, died on August 21, 2021, at age 81.
Chakraborty will deliver a lecture titled "Viruses, Immunity, and Vaccines,” on Wednesday, November 10, at the 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston.
The FEED Institute is a new technical community that will advance chemical engineering’s role in boosting innovation, sustainability, and safety in the food industries.
The event will provide a special opportunity to learn from a variety of well-known national and international experts on sustainability science.
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) helps to accelerate the growth of synthetic biology by supporting projects in the field that align with its mission.
The 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting and Annual Student Conference will take place in Boston and, for the first time, will also be hosted virtually for those unable to attend in person.
James Collins is one of the founders of the field of synthetic biology and will be speaking at the upcoming 2021 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED) Conference.
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Learn all about the new features that will help you walk away with new contacts and add to the fun and effectiveness of the virtual meeting next week.
Learn what's new at the Spring Meeting and GCPS, and get details on specialized topical conferences, featured speakers and events, and more.
Get an inside look at this year's AIChE Spring Meeting and GCPS, and learn about new topics and expanded networking opportunities.
Scientist and CEO Ilham Kadri will discuss leadership and how she has led her company to take on the challenges of sustainability and safety.
Understand how process safety management (PSM) fits into operational excellence (OE), and why PMS is so important in the process industries.
Curious what's in store at GCPS? Read on for details about what you can expect from the meeting April 18–23.
Learn what the AIChE Virtual Spring Meeting and 17th GCPS have in store for participants this April 18–23.
Learn who won awards and get more information about how you can take part in the next event.
AIChE asks for your nominations for the Institute's highest honors, with special interest this year in nominees working in industry.
Jeffrey Sanders discusses areas of food engineering with potential for strong growth and talks about Schrödinger's role in advancing industry progress.
Ron and Karnel talk about their careers and experiences at Thermo Fisher, and discuss being involved in this year's AfroBiotech Conference.
Catch up on the most popular posts of the last two months, including recent award winners, P&ID tips, chemical engineering career advice, and more.
Read who won other prizes—including best poster, most consistent performance, the Golden Tire Award, and others—and check out the winning Chem-E-Car video.
Didn't catch the ceremony during the Annual Meeting? Watch it here, and hear from the recipients of each of these prestigious awards.
Calloway, a former President of AIChE, is being honored as a key driver of energy related initiatives within AIChE.
The award recognizes his contributions to chemical engineering research and education, and his leadership in advancing the transition to a low-carbon future and addressing climate change.
