AIChE Establishes L.-S. Fan Award for Advancing Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering
▲ Liang-Shih Fan
AIChE’s Board of Directors has approved a new Institute Award that recognizes significant and new contributions to fundamental practice in chemical engineering. The L.-S. Fan Award for Advancing Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering is named for particle technology pioneer Liang-Shih Fan, Professor at The Ohio State Univ., and is supported by an endowment with fundraising led by Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park (Univ. of California, Los Angeles) and Bing Du (ExxonMobil), in collaboration with the AIChE Foundation. The award includes an invited lecture by the recipient, with the first award slated for the 2026 AIChE Annual Meeting.
Alissa Park lauds Fan as “a seminal figure in the field of particulates and multiphase reaction engineering — a discipline whose economic and environmental impact resonates profoundly through the U.S. and world economies.” Reflecting on Fan’s leadership in sustainable energy research and his mentorship of future chemical engineers, Park adds, “I am honored to be a part of his legacy, and excited to present this new AIChE award recognizing the importance of the fundamentals of chemical engineering.”
Liang-Shih Fan is Distinguished University Professor, Easton Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio State. He has invented processes that control sulfur, nitrogen oxide, and carbon dioxide emissions, and that convert carbonaceous fuels, plastic wastes, and biomass to hydrogen, chemicals, and liquid fuels. These energy...
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