2017 Board of Directors | AIChE

2017 Board of Directors

2017 AIChE Board of Directors

Officers

T. Bond Calloway, President

Bond Calloway is an Associate Laboratory Director at the Savannah River National Laboratory, where he leads a team of scientists and engineers conducting energy research. He has more than 30 years of industrial experience in research and development, design, construction, and operation of nuclear/chemical plants.

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Christine Seymour, President-Elect

Christine Seymour is a director in Global Regulatory Chemistry and Manufacturing Controls at Pfizer Inc., where she leads the regulatory strategy and implementation for a portfolio of projects across all phases of drug development, commercial applications and established products.

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Freeman E. Self, Secretary

Freeman is a process engineer with Bechtel, specializing in process safety. He received a BChE from Georgia Tech, MSChE from Rice Univ. and MBA from the Univ. of Houston. 

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Joseph Smith, Treasurer

Joseph Smith is the current (Missouri Univ of Sci and Tech - formally Missouri Rolla): Director, Energy Research and Development Center and Professor, Nuclear Engineering faculty (research). 

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Gregory Stephanopoulos, Past President

Dr. Gregory Stephanopoulos is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT.  He received his B.S. Degree from the National Technical University of Athens, M.S. Degree from the University of Florida and his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Minnesota, all in Chemical Engineering.

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Executive Director

June Wispelwey, Executive Director, AIChE

June Wispelwey, executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a chemical engineer and business leader with vast work experience in the chemical and bio-pharmaceutical fields. 

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Directors

Gregory T. Frank

Gregory Frank is Principal Engineer at Amgen, with responsibility for managing process engineering and technology development. Greg’s industrial career includes developing and commercializing synthetic and biologic pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals at Amgen, Promega, and Merck. 

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Billy B. Bardin

Operations Technology Director at The Dow Chemical Co. (Freeport, TX), where he leads technology and innovation for manufacturing and engineering and has responsibilities for all commercialized technologies. Billy joined Union Carbide/Dow R&D in 2000 as leader of alternative feedstocks and high throughput heterogeneous catalysis research.

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Meagan Lewis

Meagan Lewis is a Product Line Manager in the Catalyst, Adsorbents, and Specialties group at UOP, a Honeywell Co. Meagan joined UOP in 2008, and has held roles in project management and field service for the Technical Services group.

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Alan E. Nelson

Alan E. Nelson is the Chief Technology Officer for Johnson Matthey, where he is responsible for establishing the Company’s innovation portfolio and leading all aspects of technology development.

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John O’Connell

John P. O'Connell is Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. He has a BA from Pomona College, BS and MS from MIT, and Ph.D. from U. Calif. (Berkeley).

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Timothy O. Odi

Dr. Timothy O. Odi is an Engineering Fellow at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company. He has over 23 years diversified chemical engineering experience in research and development, process engineering, modeling and optimization with two global chemical/petrochemical USA companies.

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Joseph B. Powell

Joe Powell (Joseph B. Powell, Ph.D.) is an AIChE Fellow and Shell’s Chief Scientist - Chemical Engineering.  In 1988 he joined the Process Development Department at Shell Technology Center Houston, where he has led major R&D programs in new chemical processes, biofuels, and enhanced oil recovery, in addition to a Hunters innovation group.

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Anne Skaja Robinson

Anne Skaja Robinson joined Tulane Univ. in January 2012 as the Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Prior to Tulane, she was a full professor and Associate Chair at the Univ. of Delaware, where she started her academic career.

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Sharon Robinson

Dr. Sharon Robinson has been active in AIChE leadership roles like the Research and New Technologies Committee Chair. She also has a long history of contributions in the areas of separations, chemical processing, and waste treatment technologies while  at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Katherine (Kate) Gawel

Kate Gawel is a product developer for the North American biscuit group of Mondelez International (East Hanover, NJ), where she works closely with marketing, operations, and packaging to create new products for the company’s $1.2 billion club, multipacks, and immediate consumption business, including iconic brands such as OREO and Ritz.

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Mary Kathryn (Kathy) Lee

Mary Kathryn (Kathy) Lee is a chemical engineer at ExxonMobil Corporate Strategic Research (Annandale, NJ). She has a BS in chemical engineering from MIT (1982) and attended North Carolina State Univ. as a G.E.M. scholar, graduating in 1984 with an MS in chemical engineering and a minor in science education.

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Al Sacco, Jr.

Professor Sacco received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University; and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT. He was appointed and served as the George A. Snell Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northeastern University from 1997-2010 when he became the Dean of the Whitacre College of Engineering in 2011.  

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