Thomas F. McGowan is president and founder of TMTS Associates, Inc., a firm that specializes in thermal systems and air pollution control. He was previously employed by RMT/Four Nines, American Combustion, the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Particulate Solid Research, Inc.

McGowan has 35 years of experience in combustion, air pollution control, solids handling and industrial ventilation. This work included large scale direct fired industrial wood energy systems, wood gasifiers, and wood fired equipment safety codes. He recently edited Biomass Energy Systems, published by John...Read more

Janet Britcher is president of Transformation Management. Her success derives from her expertise in: executive coaching, organizational development, and human resources, along with her own extensive management experience. This rich background provides reference points that assist clients in achieving change, and developing management and leadership skills, in the context of their own organizational culture and systems.Read more

Robert Hall is a Supervisory Investigator for the U.S. Chemical and Hazard Investigation Board.  He has more than 30 years experience in the design, inspection, and evaluation of hazardous systems, specializing in mechanical integrity and regulatory compliance programs.  He is also a member of the ASME B31.4/11 Committee for Hazardous Liquid and Slurry Transportation Pipelines. 

Robert has a Bachelors Degree in Nuclear Engineering for the Pennsylvania State University and a Masters Degree in Energy, Resources, and Environment from the George Washington University....Read more

Suzanne Kresta joined the University of Alberta in 1992, after completing a doctorate at McMaster University. She has been an active member of the North American Mixing Forum, most notably serving as co-editor of the Handbook of Industrial Mixing (Wiley, 2004), as well as chairing various conferences and serving on the executive council. She was the winner of the NAMF Award for Excellence and Sustained Contributions in 2004.

Dr. Kresta's research interests lie at the interface between the fluid mechanics in a stirred tank, and achieving desired mixing results. On the fluid mechanics...Read more

Kimberly Ogden, PhD, is the Department Chair of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and a professor at the Univ. of Arizona (Email: ogden@email.arizona.edu). She received her BS degree in chemical engineering from the Univ. of Pennsylvania and her PhD from the Univ. of Colorado. She is a Fellow of AIChE, as well as the 2019 President and a member of the Executive Committee of ABET. Ogden’s research focus includes bioreactor design for the production of alternative fuels and chemicals from algae and guayule, as well as energy/water nexus...Read more

Dr. Reed Welker earned his bachelors and masters degrees at the University of Idaho and his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma.  From 1961 to 1963 he was a group leader and section head at Oil Recovery Corp. in Norman, Oklahoma, where he worked on secondary and tertiary methods of oil recovery.  From 1965 to 1974 he was a research engineer and associate director of the Flame Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Oklahoma Research Institute.  His research included areas of fundamental fire behavior, ignition of materials, and heat transfer from fires.  From 1965...Read more

Francis J. Doyle III serves as Dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

Doyle, who is also the John A. and Elizabeth Armstrong Professor of Engineering & Applied Sciences, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his insights into natural biological control systems and innovative engineering of diabetes control devices. As co-principal investigator of the artificial pancreas project, Doyle leads a multidisciplinary team of engineers and scientists who are developing algorithms to automate an insulin delivery...Read more

Michael F. Doherty is Duncan & Suzanne Mellichamp Chair in Process Systems Engineering; Professor of Chemical Engineering, and former Department Chair at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.  He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Trinity College, University of Cambridge in 1977.  He taught at the Universities of Minnesota and Massachusetts before joining the faculty at UC Santa Barbara in 2000.  His research...Read more

Dr. Charlie Bamforth is Anheuser-Busch Endowed Professor of Malting & Brewing Sciences at UCD. He has been part of the brewing industry for over thirty two years. He is formerly Deputy Director-General of Brewing Research International and Research Manager and Quality Assurance Manager of Bass Brewers. He is a Special Professor in the School of Biosciences at the University of Nottingham, England and was previously Visiting Professor of Brewing at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland.

Charlie is a Fellow of the Institute of Brewing & Distilling, Fellow of the Society of...Read more

Dr. David Clough has taught applied statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels to chemical engineering students for the past 20 years.  At the graduate level, his students have included practicing professionals.

Dr. Clough recently retired after a 43-year career on the faculty of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado’s Boulder Campus.  He is still active in the Department in the Emeritus role, including the supervision of research in applied process control.  He teaches several AIChE Academy courses, both in-person and eLearning...Read more