Young Professionals Community Share Young Professional (YP) members are a vital and active group of AIChE members. AIChE Young Professionals are: Under the age of 35 and have graduated from an undergraduate institution, Those new to the working world, Masters or PhD students, Those looking for a career in chemical engineering post-graduation, and Those who have been working for a few years and starting to advance in their careers. The Young Professionals Committee (YPC) works to increase participation among Young Professionals in AIChE benefits, services and volunteer opportunities. The committee Serves as an intermediary between undergraduate students moving into the next phase of their professional or academic careers, Creates technical and social programming for YP's at AIChE conferences, Supports sub-sections of local sections that hold events especially geared toward YP's, Supports and vocalizes the needs of YP's within the Institute, and Helps define the future of AIChE and the chemical engineering profession. Interested in getting involved? E-mail ypc@aiche.org for more information. Take advantage of your AIChE member benefits Recent Events Young Professionals' Social at the 2017 Annual Meeting Sunday, October 29, 2017, 8:00pm-10:30pm CDT Posted by Monica Mellinger The Young Professionals' Social will be taking place at Lumber Exchange: 10 S 5th St #300 Minneapolis, MN 55402 This event, hosted by the Young Professionals Committee (YPC), is a great opportunity to network with a diverse group of young professionals in a relaxed environment. For the first...Read more Young Professionals Mixer at the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting Sunday, March 26, 2017, 8:00pm-10:30pm CDT Posted by Monica Mellinger This event, hosted by the Young Professionals Committee (YPC), is a great opportunity to network with a diverse group of young professionals in a relaxed environment while attending the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety in San Antonio, TX. Enjoy drinks and...Read more See all Events Recent Activity Slop Oil Disposal Investigation: Lessons Learned Posted by Thomas Leusner on September 21, 2018 - 11:02am by Onochie Okonkwo, PhD student, Washington University (St. Louis) Process engineers in various facilities are bedeviled by many technical challenges. Some of these challenges we eventually solve; others we learn to manage safely instead. This article shares some of the lessons I learned in my...Read more Building Bridges in Academic Research for Successful Partnerships Posted by Thomas Leusner on August 27, 2018 - 2:11am by Dr. Jeffrey M. Ting NIST-CHiMaD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering In my Introduction to chemical engineering on the first day at the University of Texas, Dr. Roger Bonnecaze and Dr. Kelly McQueary challenged our freshmen class with a simple...Read more How to Avoid “Audience Shutdown” While Giving a Presentation Posted by Thomas Leusner on August 10, 2018 - 7:45am Julio Enrique Terán Universidad San Francisco de Quito Quito-Ecuador Presentations are a common tool for communication in the engineering and academic world. Presentations can make a topic or person memorable; however, sometimes technical or project presentations can be tedious. In this article, I...Read more The PhD: A Crash-Course to Life Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 27, 2018 - 1:18am by Aditi Khadilkar, Process Technology Development Engineer (Intel Corp., OR) For those of us who have gotten PhDs, we may have fond memories of one of the most “interesting” times in our lives. With the process fresh in mind, I’d like to share some insights about how the PhD process has many...Read more Knoxville/Oak Ridge Local Section Participates in Oak Ridge Professional Organization Day Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 27, 2018 - 1:14am by Sharon Robinson, ORNL On June 21, members of the Knoxville/Oak Ridge Local Section took time out of their workday to staff a booth at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) 2018 Professional Organization Day. ORNL (Oak Ridge, TN) is the largest US Department of Energy open science laboratory. It...Read more Build Your Leadership Skills by Presenting Trainings Effectively Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 11, 2018 - 2:46pm By Nour Srouji, Associate Scientist at Wuxi AppTec, ChE Master's degree candidate at Rutgers University Congratulations! You are officially part of the working world and moving up the corporate ladder, about to give your first training session! Or maybe you are a graduate student giving your first...Read more Black Carbon: Is It Worth the Fuss? Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 11, 2018 - 2:40pm by Ogochukwu Yvonne Enekwizu, Graduate Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology Unless you’ve driven behind or walked past a diesel engine truck spouting plumes of smoke, you may be completely oblivious to black carbon pollution. One of the many particulate aerosols that currently...Read more Leading Multidiscipline Teams through Site Assessments Posted by Thomas Leusner on June 26, 2018 - 4:13pm By: Matt Stewart, Principal Engineer & Managing Partner, Cox-Walker & Associates Company initiatives often manifest at the plant level in the form of site assessments by multidiscipline teams. As an energetic and talented young professional, you may land the responsibility of leading such...Read more Work Before Grad School: A Nontraditional Path to an Advanced Degree (Part 2) Posted by Thomas Leusner on June 26, 2018 - 4:04pm Part 2: The Benefits of Getting Work Experience First By Viktor J. Cybulskis, Ph.D., P.E. Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the particular hurdles that working professionals face when they transition back to a full-time academic program...Read more
Young Professionals' Social at the 2017 Annual Meeting Sunday, October 29, 2017, 8:00pm-10:30pm CDT Posted by Monica Mellinger The Young Professionals' Social will be taking place at Lumber Exchange: 10 S 5th St #300 Minneapolis, MN 55402 This event, hosted by the Young Professionals Committee (YPC), is a great opportunity to network with a diverse group of young professionals in a relaxed environment. For the first...Read more
Young Professionals Mixer at the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting Sunday, March 26, 2017, 8:00pm-10:30pm CDT Posted by Monica Mellinger This event, hosted by the Young Professionals Committee (YPC), is a great opportunity to network with a diverse group of young professionals in a relaxed environment while attending the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting and 13th Global Congress on Process Safety in San Antonio, TX. Enjoy drinks and...Read more
Slop Oil Disposal Investigation: Lessons Learned Posted by Thomas Leusner on September 21, 2018 - 11:02am by Onochie Okonkwo, PhD student, Washington University (St. Louis) Process engineers in various facilities are bedeviled by many technical challenges. Some of these challenges we eventually solve; others we learn to manage safely instead. This article shares some of the lessons I learned in my...Read more
Building Bridges in Academic Research for Successful Partnerships Posted by Thomas Leusner on August 27, 2018 - 2:11am by Dr. Jeffrey M. Ting NIST-CHiMaD Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering In my Introduction to chemical engineering on the first day at the University of Texas, Dr. Roger Bonnecaze and Dr. Kelly McQueary challenged our freshmen class with a simple...Read more
How to Avoid “Audience Shutdown” While Giving a Presentation Posted by Thomas Leusner on August 10, 2018 - 7:45am Julio Enrique Terán Universidad San Francisco de Quito Quito-Ecuador Presentations are a common tool for communication in the engineering and academic world. Presentations can make a topic or person memorable; however, sometimes technical or project presentations can be tedious. In this article, I...Read more
The PhD: A Crash-Course to Life Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 27, 2018 - 1:18am by Aditi Khadilkar, Process Technology Development Engineer (Intel Corp., OR) For those of us who have gotten PhDs, we may have fond memories of one of the most “interesting” times in our lives. With the process fresh in mind, I’d like to share some insights about how the PhD process has many...Read more
Knoxville/Oak Ridge Local Section Participates in Oak Ridge Professional Organization Day Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 27, 2018 - 1:14am by Sharon Robinson, ORNL On June 21, members of the Knoxville/Oak Ridge Local Section took time out of their workday to staff a booth at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) 2018 Professional Organization Day. ORNL (Oak Ridge, TN) is the largest US Department of Energy open science laboratory. It...Read more
Build Your Leadership Skills by Presenting Trainings Effectively Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 11, 2018 - 2:46pm By Nour Srouji, Associate Scientist at Wuxi AppTec, ChE Master's degree candidate at Rutgers University Congratulations! You are officially part of the working world and moving up the corporate ladder, about to give your first training session! Or maybe you are a graduate student giving your first...Read more
Black Carbon: Is It Worth the Fuss? Posted by Thomas Leusner on July 11, 2018 - 2:40pm by Ogochukwu Yvonne Enekwizu, Graduate Research Assistant, New Jersey Institute of Technology Unless you’ve driven behind or walked past a diesel engine truck spouting plumes of smoke, you may be completely oblivious to black carbon pollution. One of the many particulate aerosols that currently...Read more
Leading Multidiscipline Teams through Site Assessments Posted by Thomas Leusner on June 26, 2018 - 4:13pm By: Matt Stewart, Principal Engineer & Managing Partner, Cox-Walker & Associates Company initiatives often manifest at the plant level in the form of site assessments by multidiscipline teams. As an energetic and talented young professional, you may land the responsibility of leading such...Read more
Work Before Grad School: A Nontraditional Path to an Advanced Degree (Part 2) Posted by Thomas Leusner on June 26, 2018 - 4:04pm Part 2: The Benefits of Getting Work Experience First By Viktor J. Cybulskis, Ph.D., P.E. Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the particular hurdles that working professionals face when they transition back to a full-time academic program...Read more