Events

*sponsored by Pentair* Come listen to a case study on oil and gas filtration technology while meeting other NorCal chemical engineers at Scott's Seafood in Walnut Creek.Read more

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

AIChE NorCal invites you to join us the staff of the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's Advanced Biofuels and Bioprocess Demonstration Unit for a guided pilot plant tour. // What Networking & Refreshments (5:30-6:30 pm) ABPDU Pilot plant tour (6:30-7:30 pm) // Where Lawrence Berkeley National...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

**REGISTRATION FOR THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED** Join us in SF/ Hunter's Point for a combo evening of factory tour and presentation on small business consulting as a chemical engineer. // Need-finding and Independent Consulting with Small Businesses Greg Dudish consulted for the SF Mead Company to...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

Dear NorCal Members, Start 2018 off with a focused, interactive workshop about supercharging your career as a chemical engineer using entrepreneurial thinking. The interactive workshop will discuss the skills and technology you should sharpen to maintain a competitive edge, and how to balance...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

Program consists of: Networking & Refreshments (6:00-6:30 pm) Introductory Remarks by Todd Pray, Program head, AB-PDU (6:30-6:40 pm) Eric Sundstrom talk & Q/A (6:40-7:10 pm) Murthy Konda talk & Q/A (7:10-8:00 pm) ABPDU Pilot plant tour (8:00-8:30 pm) De-risking process scale-up for...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

Symposium Description: Key challenge facing the world is how to ensure sufficient food, water and energy security. Both industry and academia along with the developed/developing countries will have to work together to tackle this challenge. The solution will have to be synergistic and only then a...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

Lessons Learned the Last 50+ Years in Process Safety and Industry Best Practices So You Won’t Relearn Them in Your Production or R&D Facilities by Jerry L. Jones, PE and AIChE CCPS Staff Consultant and Process Safety Instructor "Recipient of 2016 NorCal AIChE Chemical Engineering...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

Improve the Energy Efficiency of Fired Heaters with Big Data - by Ronald Wright, Ph.D., Mohammad Shahini, P.E. & Saleh Sedighi Enersimp, LLC More than 60% of all fuel consumed in refineries is used in furnaces (fired heaters) and boilers and represents the largest energy consumers in petroleum...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

Synopsis of Presentation: Dr. Desmond (Des) King, Chevron Oronite president and a past president of IChemE, will talk about the concept of the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and discuss some of implications for the global population. He will use case studies from around the world to highlight some of the...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

2016 NorCal AIChE Symposium on Environment and Biotechnology Lafayette Veterans Memorial Center (map) Friday, April 8, 2016 Symposium Description: The morning session of the symposium will focus on the topics of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Health and Safety. Presentation topics will...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

The next event of the Silicon Valley Engineering Council, of which the NorCal section of AIChE is a member, will be held in Sunnyvale on Wednesday 3 February. The webpage that announces the meeting is http://www.svec.org/ Our next NorCal AIChE meeting will be on Tuesday 23 February at E. J. Brewing...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

Synopsis of presentation: Natel Energy, Inc. produces a new hydropower product enabling cost-effective production of low impact, distributed baseload energy from existing low dams, irrigation canals, and other low head hydropower resources. This is accomplished by the use of an innovative, patented...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

Join us to meet PPA Award winner Jean Bender Continuous Centrifuge Characterization and Scale Down Model Development Continuous centrifugation is widely used as the primary clarification step for cell culture. Centrifugation followed by depth and sterile filtration is an effective means to remove...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

Advancing Technology in Petroleum Fuels In response to a request from the U.S. Secretary of Energy Dr. Steven Chu, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) recently completed a study titled "Advancing Technology for America's Transportation Future". The Secretary asked the NPC to analyze...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

Are you looking to meet other Chemical Engineering Young Professionals? Looking to meet people that can get you a job? Trying to fill a job? Just want to meet some people with common interests? Then come to the upcoming AIChE event! Cost: Free – some food and beverages to be provided by AIChE...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

Dear Norcal AICHE members Please join us for plant tour of Genetech - Event is free and space is limited to the first 30 who register. Founded more than 35 years ago, Genentech is a leading biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and commercializes medicines to treat patients...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

Are you looking to meet other Chemical Engineering Young Professionals? Looking to meet people that can get you a job? Trying to fill a job? Just want to meet some people with common interests? Then come to the upcoming AIChE event on April 16! • Young Professional Mixer. • Time:...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