Events

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

**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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Excellence...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 in...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

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

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

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

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, Charlie will...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

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

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

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

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, with...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

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 d'...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

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

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: Wednesday April 16...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 sense...Read more