The Featured YP for February is Meagan Lewis. Learn about her background, career challenges, and her advice to other young professionals.

February's issue of CEP magazine looks at heat exchanger baffling and environmental law for chemical engineers, plus offers tips for dealing with yield-stress slurries and much more.

Quick! Tell me how Stratco has improved its sulfuric acid alkylation process in the last twenty years. Or design and specify a heat exchanger so it can put out to vendors for bid. Wait, you mean you don't know how to do that? Fortunately AIChE has you covered. AIChE has partnered with not only Knovel but also McGraw-Hill to provide its members access to their very extensive online library of technical books. It's AIChE’s eLibrary.

If you are like many young chemical engineers, you know the importance of going to conferences to network and learn more about the industry’s latest developments, but lack the personal funds to finance attendance. Being new at a company, you may not have yet figured out the best way to go about requesting your company to send you.

The Career and Education Operating Council (CEOC) focuses on the educational, professional, and financial needs of AIChE members and stakeholders. Essentially it touches all AIChE members in some capacity.

An AIChE Conference would not be complete without multiple opportunities to network! The Young Professionals are always looking for opportunities to socialize, and the Houston 2012 Spring Meeting will be no exception.

Upcoming events for YP local sections!

Young Professionals have a lot to look forward to at the 2012 Spring Meeting in Houston. Whether you are interested in technical topics or professional development, there will be a variety of sessions available for you. In addition, there will also be a whole topical focused on Process Safety for Young Professionals.

YPAB would like to increase the Young Professional presence at each regional conference. We are calling on the Local YP Sections to help with the Student Regional Conferences.

With both the Spring Meeting and Student Regional Conferences quickly approaching, YPAB is focused on preparing for a wide variety of programs and events. YPAB is also beginning the early stages of planning for the Annual Conference in Pittsburgh.