Introduction to Filtration and Coalescing Technology sponsored by Pentair Tuesday, March 19, 2019, 6:30pm-9:00pm PDT Posted by Austin Lin *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
Enhancing Your Communication Skills as a Chemical Engineer Wednesday, February 13, 2019, 6:30pm-9:00pm PST Posted by Austin Lin Enjoy a networking dinner with your fellow chemical engineers while we learn about communication skills in chemical engineering.Read more
Tour of the LBNL Advanced Biofuels Lab in Emeryville Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 5:30pm-7:30pm PST Posted by Austin Lin 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
[AIChE NorCal] Sand City Desalination Plant Tour (Monterey Region) & Dinner Join AIChE NorCal members and guests for a plant tour of a desalination plant. Friday, October 26, 2018, 2:30pm-7:30pm PDT Posted by Austin Lin // 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
[AIChE NorCal] Professional Progress Award Dinner in Walnut Creek June 7, 6:30pm Join NorCal members for our last section meeting of the fiscal year and celebrate the recipient of the NorCal's Professional Progress Award winner! Thursday, June 7, 2018, 6:30pm-8:30pm PDT Posted by Austin Lin **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
2018 AIChE NorCal Symposium "Opportunities and Challenges in Process Scale Up" Friday, May 11, 2018, 9:00am-2:00pm PDT Posted by Nathan Hanna 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
AIChE March 8, 2018 Section Meeting and Plant Tour in San Francisco What fermenting honey into mead and launching your own consulting business have in common. Thursday, March 8, 2018, 6:00pm-9:30pm PST Posted by Austin Lin **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
AIChE NorCal February 2018 Meeting @ South SF From Environmental Consulting to Construction: Chemical Engineers Can Do It All! Wednesday, February 21, 2018, 6:00pm-8:00pm PST Posted by Austin Lin // 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
January 2018 AIChE Section Meeting in Downtown Berkeley Your Career is a Startup Thursday, January 11, 2018, 6:00pm-9:00pm PST Posted by Austin Lin 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
December 7 - Happy Hour and Social Networking @ Sunnyvale Joint event between AIChE NorCal and ASME Santa Clara Valley Thursday, December 7, 2017, 6:30pm-9:30pm PST Posted by Austin Lin 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
Dec 6 - Year End AIChE In-Person Dinner Meeting @ Walnut Creek Co-Sponsored by the California Society of Professional Engineers Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 6:00pm-9:00pm PST Posted by Austin Lin 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 Engineering Approaches to Sulfur Cathodes for Next-Generation Li-S Batteries Thursday, November 9, 2017, 6:30pm PST Posted by Nathan Hanna 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
2017 AIChE NorCal June Monthly Meeting AIChE NorCal invites you to join us for great presentations and guided pilot plant tour Tuesday, June 27, 2017, 6:00pm-9:00pm PDT Posted by Nathan Hanna 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
2017 AIChE NorCal May Monthly Meeting Production of Biodegradable Polymers From Waste Methane Gas Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 6:00pm-8:30pm PDT Posted by Nathan Hanna 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
2017 AIChE NorCal Symposium on Food-Water-Energy Nexus AIChE NorCal invites you to join for one day symposium on Food-Water-Energy Nexus Friday, April 28, 2017, 8:00am-4:30pm PDT Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
March 2017 NorCal AIChE South Bay Meeting Tuesday, March 21, 2017, 6:00pm-8:00pm PDT Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
2017 AIChE NorCal March Monthly Meeting AIChE NorCal invites you to join for Sake Tasting & Technical Seminar , Entrepreneurship Learnings from a Young Chemical Engineer, by Greg Dudish, Dudish Consulting, L.L.C. Tuesday, March 7, 2017, 6:00pm-9:00pm PST Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
AIChE NorCal and the AIChE South Bay Sub-section Presents South Bay Happy Hour Thursday, February 9, 2017, 6:00pm-8:00pm PST Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
2017 AIChE NorCal January Monthly Meeting Tuesday, January 24, 2017, 6:00pm PST Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
AIChE NorCal 70th Anniversary at AIChE Annual Meeting Celebrating NorCal's 70th Anniversary Wednesday, November 16, 2016, 3:15pm-10:00pm PST Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
2016 AIChE NorCal October Monthly Meeting Tuesday, October 25, 2016, 6:00pm-9:00pm PDT Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
Engineers Without Borders 'SFari' gala fundraiser this Oct 13! Thursday, October 13, 2016, 7:00pm-10:00pm EDT Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi 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
September 2016 AIChE NorCal Meeting Thursday, September 29, 2016, 6:00pm-9:00pm PDT Posted by Mahnaz Firouzi "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
NorCal AIChE/ACS Young Professionals June 30 Meeting Properties and Applications of Bioinspired Adhesive Polymers Thursday, June 30, 2016, 6:00am PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
June 2016 NorCal AIChE Meeting The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Chemical Engineering Matters Tuesday, June 28, 2016, 6:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
Career Pathways: PhD or PE NorCal Young Professionals AIChE/ACS Tuesday, May 24, 2016, 6:30pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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 Environment and Biotechnology Friday, April 8, 2016, 8:00am-5:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
March 2016 NorCal AICHE Meeting “Cold, Cold, Cold… and Dry” Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 6:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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 Thursday, March 17, 2016, 6:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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” Tuesday, February 23, 2016, 6:00pm PST Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
January Monthly Meeting The January monthly meeting has been canceled due to unforeseen difficulties. Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 6:00pm PST Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
November 2015 Meeting - SVEC Open House Reception at Google Tuesday, November 17, 2015 Tuesday, November 17, 2015, 5:30pm PST Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
October 2015 NorCal AIChE Meeting Tuesday, October 27, 2015, 6:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
September 2015 NorCal AIChE Meeting Presentation by Bryan Yeh, PE Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 6:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
August 2015 AICHE North Bay Meeting From biomass to biopharmaceuticals; from fracking to farming. What are membrane separations and why are they important for future separations applications? Tuesday, August 25, 2015, 5:30pm-8:30pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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
Engineering Brandy A high level walkthrough of the brandy making process, from receiving grapes to distillation Monday, July 20, 2015, 6:30pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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
June 2015 AICHE North Bay Meeting Professional Progress Award- Jean Bender Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 6:00pm-8:15pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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
2015 NorCal AIChE Symposium The Entrepreneurial Chemical Engineer Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 8:30am-4:30pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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
March 2015 AICHE North Bay Meeting at Chevron S. Shariq Yosufza, Advancing Technology in Petroleum Fuels Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 6:00pm-8:30pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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
Lubrication Fundamentals and Fluid Management Seminar A One-Day Seminar Presented By The Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE), Northern California Section Tuesday, March 31, 2015, 8:45am-5:00pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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 North Bay Meeting Cell Squeezing: A Vector-Free Microfluidic Platform for Intracellular Delivery Tuesday, February 24, 2015, 5:30pm-8:00pm PST Posted by Dylan Webster 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
January 2015 AIChE South Bay Meeting Best Practices in Process Safety - Jerry Jones PE Tuesday, January 27, 2015, 5:30pm-8:00pm PST Posted by Dylan Webster 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
AIChE NorCal Young Professionals Mixer Wednesday, December 3, 2014, 6:00pm-8:00pm PST Posted by Dylan Webster 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
Silicon Valley Engineering Council (SVEC) Open House Friday, November 21, 2014, 5:30pm-8:30pm PST Posted by Dylan Webster 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
October 2014 AICHE Meeting at Genentech South San Francisco Tuesday, October 28, 2014, 5:30pm-8:00pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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
WILL ChE’s BE ALLOWED TO WORK IN CALIFORNIA? The Battle Continues Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 5:30pm PDT Posted by Dylan Webster 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 Chemical Engineering comedy in San Francisco, August 8-10, 2014 Friday, August 8-10, 2014, 8:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell "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
2014 NorCal Process Development Symposium Toward Commercialization Success Thursday, May 1, 2014, 7:30am PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
Young Professional Mixer Are you looking to meet other Chemical Engineering Young Professionals? Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 6:00pm PDT Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
January 2014 Meeting Speaker: Dr. Alex Dunn, Stanford University Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm PST Posted by Thomas Fogwell 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
Meeting with MIT Club of Northern California Hydraulic Fracturing: Boon or Bane? Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 6:30pm-9:30pm PST Posted by Thomas Fogwell Energy & Clean Tech Series What are the real risks? Hear first-hand from expert, George King, P.E.! One time only Bay Area appearance! George King, P.E. Dinner: 6:30-7:30pm Program: 7:30-9:30pm Please note later start time! Register $30 MITCNC members; $45 non-members Join the Club! Buy your...Read more