I am a third year Graduate Student at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign working on the Low energy conversion of atmospheric carbon dioxide to fuels. I received my bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Delaware.Read more

I completed my B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Bombay in 1998, M.E. in Chemical Engineering in 1999 from City College of New York and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2003 from Purdue University. Since then I was a postdoctoral researcher for three years in the Bioengineering Department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Currently I am an Assistant Scientist at UCSD. My Ph.D. research was on fault diagnosis in complex chemical plants and postdoctoral research is focused on applications of process systems engineering for studying complex biochemical pathways. I have...Read more

I earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 2007 and am expecting to graduate with a Ph.D. from Cornell University in December of 2011. During this time, I have gathered a breadth of experience working in polymer and inorganic synthesis and characterization geared toward controlling nanostructures in a variety of geometries and morphologies, subsequently applying them to biomass, photovoltaic, and battery energy applications among others. My primary focus over the last few years has been generating a diverse method to bond metal and ceramic precursors to...Read more

I graduated from Brigham Young University in December 1979 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering. I started work for Conoco in its engineering center in Ponca City Oklahoma, and worked for the Chemicals Division. The facililities where I work have been sold 4 different times, and are now owned and operated by Sasol, a global Energy and Chemical company headquartered in South Africa. I am currently the engineering manager for Sasol North America Inc.Read more

I have over 10 years of experience in Operator Training Simulators, Dynamic Simulation and Manufacturing Execution Systems. I hold a doctorate in Chemical Engineering. I have been with ACE Group at KBR for 8 years. Assignments included dynamic simulation projects for Superflex, Ammonia, GTL and Hydrotreating plants.Read more

I started my life as chemical engineer in 1988 when I started my education at the Technical University of Delft in the Department of Chemical Engineering. I joined Technip in 1995 as an engineer of the ethylene group. I have been exposed to essentially all the aspects of the ethylene, from initial feasibility studies, through all sales and engineering phases into the actual start-up support. And it does not end there, since the ever growing demand for ethylene has also resulted in an increased demand for capacity expansion studies and projects. I am member of the EEPC workgroup 2 and the...Read more

Janine Keeley joined Emerson Process Management – Fisher Products in May of 2005 coming from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering. She is a sales engineer who started in the Pulp & Paper / Metals & Mining industry group and moved to the Chemical industry in May 2007. In that role, she was able to focus on the ethylene industry and market. She has since moved from that position to become the Industry Manager for Food & Beverage / Life Sciences.Read more

Jay Gorawara is the Leader for Adsorbent Applications in Refining and Petrochemicals at UOP LLC. Prior to this Jay was a specialist in R&D’s hydro-processing and reaction engineering groups. Upon graduation from Virginia Tech with a Master’s in Chemical Engineering, Jay started his career with UOP in Experimental Development, following which he served as a Technical Advisor for commercial start-ups of Refining and Petrochemical units world-wide. Jay has been with UOP for 30 years and holds 6 patentsRead more

Jeanenne LaMarsh works in a consultative capacity with organizations committed to effective organizational change. She is internationally recognized as an expert in helping companies to implement successful change. Jeanenne works with senior management, key change agents, and people who need to change; helping them to understand change and build effective change management strategies.

Jeanenne founded LaMarsh & Associates in 1979 as a firm that addresses the human factors that support successful change. While serving as both a consultant and teacher of the Managed Change™...Read more

Jeffrey Mudd ia a graduate of Auburn University, and the Capital Project Manager for Cabot Corporation at the Fumed Silica Plant in Tuscola, Illinois. He has been at this site for over 15 years and has been involved in a lot of process design work as well as project work. This plant has a small engineering design team, so they often find themselves reading through various codes and working with outside engineering firms for guidance in our many design quests. One of these quests, evaluating Safety Instrument Systems, brought him to this symposium. This is his first...Read more