Lee O. Fuller, Vice President of Government Relations, joined IPAA in 1998. From 1978 through 1986, Mr. Fuller served Senator Lloyd Bentsen as a professional staff member and staff director of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In 1980, he staffed the development of the Bentsen Amendment on drilling fluids and produced water under RCRA, modification to SDWA regarding Class II UIC wells and the provisions on Superfund with regard to its treatment of oil, RCRA wastes and federally permitted releases. In 1986, as staff director, he staffed the development of the TRI program...Read more

Scott Fogler is Past President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers for 2010. He received his B.S. from the University of Illinois and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Colorado. He is the Ame and Catherine Vennema professor of chemical engineering and the Arthur F. Thurnau professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is also the author of the 'Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering', which is the dominant book in this area worldwide, and co-author with Steven LeBlanc of the book 'Strategies for Creative Problem Solving'.

Scott and his students are...Read more

Dr. John W. Prados, is Vice President and University Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee, where he served for more than 50 years. A consultant for industry, government, and education, he was also Senior Education Associate in the NSF Engineering Directorate. He has served as Engineering Accreditation Commission Chair and President of ABET; Treasurer and Director of AIChE; and editor of the Journal of Engineering Education . He is a fellow of ABET, AIChE, and ASEE and a Registered Professional Engineer (retired) in Tennessee.Read more

John O’Connell is Professor Emeritus at the Univ. of Virginia. He has been active in AIChE for more than 50 years. An AIChE Fellow for more than 25 of those years, he served as Fellows Chair from 2004 to 2011, and became founding Chair of the Fellows Council. John is currently the Fellows Council Secretary and Editor of the Fellows Newsletter. He served on AIChE’s Board of Directors from 2015 through 2017.

John has been involved in all levels of Institute programming — as a chair of many meeting sessions, Chair of Group 1 and Area 1A (Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals;...Read more

Soemantri Widagdo is Manager of Multifunctional Surfaces and Adhesives, in the Display and Graphics Business at 3M. He received his B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, and his M.Ch.E. and Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology. Early in his career, he developed the first electric generator in Indonesia that used biomass gasification technology.

After the completion of his graduate studies, he began his career in the United States with the Polymer Processing Institute (PPI), Hoboken, New Jersey. As the head of its computation...Read more

Steve Arendt is a Vice President of ABS Consulting Inc. and leads the North American Process Industries sector. He has 30+ years experience in chemical process safety and risk management involving chemical, petrochemical, oil, gas, and related industry processes.



Since...Read more

Peter Lederman’s communication experience straddles many venues and a variety of purposes.  He has over 50 years of experience in industry, government and academia as an engineer, manager, professor and executive.  Pete earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate degrees at the University of Michigan.  He has taught communications as part of a culminating process design course.  Pete has over 100 published papers and has spoken to technical and non-technical groups on a wide variety of subjects.  He has testified before Congress and been an expert witness....Read more

June Wispelwey, Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a chemical engineer and business leader with vast work experience in the chemical and bio-pharmaceutical fields. Prior to becoming AIChE executive director, June served as executive director of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), a technical community within AIChE, overseeing its successful launch and growth. Under her leadership, SBE developed a successful consortium to advance genomic research on the Chinese hamster ovary cell lines which are important to...Read more

Dr. Joseph J. Cramer is currently Director Emeritus, Program Development for AIChE where he was Director, Technical Programming from  1994 to early 2012.. In this capacity he worked with AIChE’s Program Committee to develop content for AIChE national meetings. Previously, he had more than 20 years experience with Stone and Webster Engineering as an environmental engineer, project manager and program manager. He also worked with Brown & Root and Bechtel as an air quality engineering department head. Dr. Cramer has extensive experience both as an expert witness and in managing...Read more