Larry Megan | AIChE

Larry Megan

Director
Praxair Digital

Larry Megan is currently Director – Praxair Digital. The Praxair Digital team is chartered with enabling digital innovation across the enterprise, including Praxair’s manufacturing operations, supply chains, and business processes, as well as creating a greater external digital presence. 

Larry joined Praxair in 1993, later becoming an R&D manager and Corporate Fellow. He holds multiple US patents and has co-authored 13 peer reviewed journal articles. He received AIChE’s Computing Practice award in 2015 and the National Academy of Engineering Eminent Young Engineer award in 2006, and multiple internal awards. He is a member of the University at Buffalo (UB) Industrial Engineering Advisory Board, the Buffalo Manufacturing Works Founders Board, and is actively involved in collaborative efforts between UB and the Buffalo Public Schools to improve science and math education. 

Larry has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut.