Gordon Ellis
Gordon Ellis has been on staff at AIChE for more than two decades, with many years’ experience working with volunteer groups, member activities and student programs. He now concentrates on writing and editing for Chemical Engineering Progress magazine.
ChEnected contributions
MIT’s Kristala L. J. Prather Is the 2021 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient
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.
Mou Paul of Dow Chemical Selected as AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient
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.
Mark Ellis of 3M Named 2021 Industry Leadership Award Winner
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.
Masoud Soroush of Drexel University Receives AIChE’s 2021 Industrial Gases Award
Dr. Soroush is being honored for advancing the frontiers of gas-separation technologies through the fabrication of novel polymer membranes and the development of process systems engineering methods and software.
Pfizer’s Paul Mensah Is AIChE’s 2021 Industrial R&D Award Recipient
Mensah is being recognized for outstanding leadership of pharmaceutical biotechnology process development and clinical supply, including the development and supply of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Stanford’s Zhenan Bao Is AIChE’s 2021 Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient
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.”
Santhosh Shankar of Shell Receives AIChE’s Energy and Sustainability Award
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.
2021 AIChE Annual Meeting Preview
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.
Dr. Michelle O’Malley of UC Santa Barbara Selected as 2021 Colburn Award Recipient
Dr. O’Malley is being recognized “for engineering unusual microorganisms from nature for biomass deconstruction and novel bioprocessing.”
Meet Some of AIChE’s Recently Elected Fellows
Get to know more about the careers, work, and research of some of the most recently elected AIChE Fellows.
H. Scott Fogler, AIChE Fellow and Past President
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.
AIChE’s 2021 Gala Will Honor Companies and Their Leaders for Supporting the Extraordinary
The in-person December 1 AIChE Gala will honor Moderna and its leadership as well as FOSSI and its founding partners for their contributions to the advancement of society.
MIT’s Chakraborty Chosen as 2021 Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecturer
Chakraborty will deliver a lecture titled "Viruses, Immunity, and Vaccines,” on Wednesday, November 10, at the 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston.
AIChE Establishes Food Engineering, Expansion and Development Institute
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.
Laurencin Selected as 2021 Hoover Medalist
The award recognizes the civic and humanitarian achievements of an engineer whose professional and personal endeavors have advanced the well-being of humankind.