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January 2013 Message from AIChE President, Phil Westmoreland

January 2013 Message from AIChE President, Phil Westmoreland
January 24, 2013

As I begin 2013 as AIChE’s president, I want to share my belief that we’re entering a new Golden Age of Chemical Engineering. Why is this a time for chemical engineering to shine? Consider what is happening:

  • manufacturing’s shift to emphasize processes and properties
  • the new abundance of hydrocarbon resources
  • biology’s turning into a molecular science
  • computing’s evolution into a cyberinfrastructure
  • society’s need for the breadth and problem-solving approaches of chemical engineering.

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Dr. Phillip R. Westmoreland

Phil Westmoreland is a professor at North CarolinaState University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. His research focuses on reaction kinetics and engineering, obtained from experiments, computational chemistry and reactor modeling. His Chemical Engineering degrees are fromN.C. State (BS73), LSU (MS74) and MIT (PhD86). From 1986-2009, Phil was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and in 2006-2009 he served as a Program Director at NSF.

He was 2013 AIChE President; is a Trustee and past president of the educational nonprofit CACHE Corporation; and was...Read more