Events

*REGISTRATION NOW LIVE! SEE YOU ON NOVEMBER 13, 2019 IN REDWOOD CITY, 5:30PM* == Join us for an upcoming plant tour of Silicon Valley Clean Water in Redwood City and discuss the use of bioreactors in water treatment applications. Food will be included as part of the event. Registration is now live...Read more

NorCal AIChE will be hosting an event with Stanford's student chapter of AIChE at Stanford University. The event will allow students to network with working professionals in different industries. Please register HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/...Read more

Join us next month in Emeryville for AIChE Northern California's 57th Annual Symposium, our section's premier event of the year. Our theme this year is Emerging Technologies in Chemical Engineering and will be a mix of guest speakers followed by a hands-on interactive workshop on the impact of new...Read more

Enjoy a networking dinner with your fellow chemical engineers while we learn about communication skills in chemical engineering.Read more

// WHAT Join the American Institue of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) NorCal Section members & guests on a guided tour of the Sand City Desalination Plant (near Monterey, CA) with a tour led by Robert James, Plant Supervisor. We'll learn about the processes used in water desalinization and how it...Read more

**REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS EVENT** Join the AIChE NorCal Leadership Team and other AIChE professionals like yourself to close out our 2017-18 Fiscal Year with a celebration of one of AIChE NorCal's top professional awards, the Professional Progress Award, given annually to a...Read more

Join AIChE NorCal for our 56th Annual Symposium focusing on some of the challenges and opportunities in process scale up. We invite you to hear insights from professionals in industry and academia, honor our student and service award winners, and network with fellow NorCal chemical engineers. Time...Read more

// From Environmental Consulting to Construction: Chemical Engineers Can Do It All! *Sponsored by Dome Construction* Curious about what other industries ChemEs are making an impact? What types of technical problems are encountered in one field with lessons learned reapplied in others? Come hear the...Read more

Come Join Us for an alternate "Thirsty Third Thursday" in December! ASME SCVS presents December happy hour on 12/7/2017 to respect your holidays. Co-sponsored this month with the South Bay Sub-section of AIChE. ASME Santa Clara Valley invites you to join us for drinks and appetizers (free...Read more

Hi NorCal Chemical Engineers! For our last meeting of 2017, we'll be gathering in a Spanish tavern overlooking Walnut Creek for tapas, camaraderie and a chance to meet other AIChE and CSPE members in an intimate rooftop setting. Together we'll participate in a career development focused...Read more

2017 AIChE NorCal November Meeting This Week! Hi NorCal Chemical Engineers! Join us this week in Silicon Valley for a talk on the engineering of new battery technologies. Independent consultant Prashanth Jampani will be speaking to us about the energy density of lithium sulfur battery systems...Read more

Synopsis of the Presentation: Mango Materials is a Bay Area-based start-up that uses methane gas to produce biodegradable biopolymers that are economically and functionally competitive with conventional, oil-based plastics. Mango Materials produces powder or pellets of poly-hydroxyalkanoate (PHA),...Read more

Join us for an educational evening centered around two Bay Area Chemical Engineering faculty members. Drs. Rosenfeld and Cargnello will share their scholarly interests and research advancements with the group - get ready for a night of learning and networking! Liat Rosenfeld, Ph.D. Dr. Rosenfeld is...Read more

Synopsis of the Presentation: Relaying his own experiences of starting a consulting firm as a young entrepreneur in the chemical engineering field. The talk will include: How to be an entrepreneur as a chemical engineer - even if you think you are too young! Basic strategies for entrepreneurship/...Read more

Join us for a great opportunity to network with Chemical Engineers in the South Bay and Peninsula. Learn about upcoming outreach events and society meetings and help shape future South Bay Sub-section activities. Non-alcoholic drinks and light appetizers will be provided. Contact: Meredith Sellers...Read more

Description: AIChE's Northern California (NorCal) Local Section will be celebrating its 70th year anniversary at the Annual Meeting. The program will include a session where prominent industry and academic speakers will present past, present, and future of the ever changing face of technology...Read more

Engineers Without Borders 'SFari' gala fundraiser this Oct 13! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/engineers-without-borders-sfari-2016-tickets-26692717637 Have a great time and help AIChE reach out to other engineers interested in giving back...Read more

"NorCal AIChE periodically honors one of its members with the Professional Progress Award (PPA). Created in 1982, it is the highest tribute so given by NorCal in recognition of service to the Section, to our profession and for personal career achievement. This year, Ignacio Martinez has been...Read more

Don't miss out on the next CalACS Younger Chemist Committee and NorCal AIChE Young Professionals Event: Properties and Applications of Bioinspired Adhesive Polymers Presented by Phillip B. Messersmith, PhD Register Early: Early Bird Pricing ends June 23! *Tickets include 2 drink tickets and...Read more

For both chemists and chemical engineers beyond the bachelors degree, one of the first major career decisions is whether to continue on in academia or to pursue opportunities in industry. This panel will bring together working chemists and chemical engineers who have pursued doctorates in their...Read more

Synopsis of presentation: In the Bio Pharmaceutical industry, upstream unit operations such as cell culture conducted in large bioreactors and subsequent separation and product recovery steps via filtration, large scale chromatographic separation, ultrafiltration, are clearly the domain of the...Read more

NorCal AIChE Young Professionals Networking & Brewery Tour March 17, 2016 6:00pm Come hang out with AIChE and ACS Young Professionals to learn about what we're up to this year followed by a private tour and tasting of San Francisco's historic Anchor Brewery. *Must be 21 to register,...Read more

February 2016 NorCal AICHE Meeting “The Brilliance of Beer” Prof. Charlie Bamforth Tuesday, February 23 E. J. Phair Brewing Company 300 Cumberland St. Pittsburg, CA 94565 Join us for a great presentation and guided brewery tour. Synopsis of presentation: With tongue very much in cheek,...Read more

SVEC Open House Reception, Tuesday, November 17, 2015 The SVEC wants to welcome you to our complimentary Annual Open House event! Please pass this invitation along to others you think may be interested. Join us for a complimentary light buffet and an evening of exciting information and engineering...Read more

September 2015 AICHE North Bay Meeting Bioconversion of natural gas to iso-butanol : Engineering considerations for commercialization Bryan Yeh, PE Vice President, Research & Technology Industrial Products Division Intrexon Corporation Tuesday, Sept 22 6:00 to 8:30 PM Two Mile Wines 477 25th St...Read more

Dr. Ranil Wickramasinghe Tuesday, Aug 25th ABPDU 5885 Hollis Street, 3rd Floor Emeryville CA Join us for great presentations and guided site tour Special thanks to our speakers and ABPDU for hosting this event As chemical engineers perhaps the best known membrane based separation process is reverse...Read more

AICHE Young Professionals and ACS Younger Chemist Committee present: Engineering Brandy A high level walkthrough of the brandy making process, from receiving grapes to distillation Speaker Konrad Miller, PE Process Engineer E&J Gallo Winery Event Schedule Social time: 6:30 pm Talk: 7:30 pm...Read more

Program information is now available, and registration is open for the 2015 NorCal AIChE Symposium , centered on the topic of Entrepreneurship and Chemical Engineering! Read below for the outline of the day, including technical topics supporting entrepreneurial efforts in Northern California...Read more

Practical and theoretical topics will be presented allowing you to walk away with information you need to improve your company’s understanding of lubrication fundamentals and the general principles of managing fluids to maintain their performance. This is a multi-instructor education event,...Read more

February 2015 AICHE South Bay Meeting Cell Squeeze - Armon Sharei, Ph.D. Tuesday, February 24th Hs Lordships, Berkeley Marina Cell Squeezing: A Vector-Free Microfluidic Platform for Intracellular Delivery Manipulating cells through intracellular delivery of active macromolecules has many potential...Read more

Best Practices in Process Safety--Lessons Learned and Re-learned the Last 50+ Years and Applicable to Manufacturing, Pilot Plant and Lab Activities In this presentation Mr. Jones will discuss lessons learned and relearned over decades in the chemical process industry on preventing and mitigating...Read more

Please join the Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) at their annual Open House event Friday November 21st to share contacts, ideas and engineering camaraderie. SVEC is partnering for the event with Paypal's TechXploration Meetup group. The event begins with a networking reception and hors...Read more

Bob Katin, PE, will be making a presentation at a Joint Meeting of the SoCal AIChE Local Section and the Student Chapter at UCI on Tuesday, October 21st, 2014. Mr. Katin has been active on a state bill to make conducting chemical engineering legal in California. The bill is currently on the...Read more

"Feel the Power of the Dork Side" is coming to the Bay Area August 8-10, 2014. A one-man show written and performed by Dr. Pete, the World's only engineering professor by day and stand-up comedian by night, it is a hilarious & educational look at science & technology and their...Read more

Who should attend this one day event: Those who work in areas of product and process development are expected to learn new and useful approaches for meeting the challenges of project success. To register for the symposium, click here . The keynote address will be "Role of Pilot Plants in...Read more

Title: "Reach out and touch someone: Understanding the role of mechanics in cellular function" The ability of cells to generate and respond to mechanical cues is an essential aspect of stem cell biology, tissue engineering, and our senses of touch and hearing. However, how exactly cells...Read more