Gordon Ellis
Gordon Ellis has been on staff at AIChE for more than two decades, with many years’ experience working with volunteer groups, member activities and student programs. He now concentrates on writing and editing for Chemical Engineering Progress magazine.
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Meet Some of AIChE’s Recently Elected Fellows
Meet these recently elected AIChE Fellows and read about their impressive careers and accomplishments.
Ioannis Kevrekidis of Johns Hopkins Will Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature
Kevrekidis is being recognized for transformative contributions to chemical engineering modeling, integrating physical insight with data-driven/machine learning approaches, and modern scientific computation for complex, multiscale systems.
Westmoreland Receives Van Antwerpen Award for Service to AIChE
Westmoreland is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering profession through service to AIChE, in both the professional and technical areas of Institute activities.
Sujit Datta Is AIChE’s 2023 Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient
Datta is being honored for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering through publications on the physicochemical dynamics of flow instabilities, swellable and shrinkable gels, and living systems in complex porous environments.
Berkeley’s Jeffrey Reimer Will Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education
Dr. Reimer is being recognized for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education as well as excellence in research.
Maria Wang of PPG Is AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient
Wang is being recognized for her significant contributions to the coatings industry.
DuPont’s Prime RO Team Is the 2023 Energy and Sustainability Award Recipient
The Prime RO Team is being recognized for developing five families of the world’s most energy-efficient reverse osmosis membranes and elements that will reduce global CO2 equivalent emissions by 85,000 tons per year.
Representation and Inspiration: The LatinX in ChE Community
Gabriel Rodriguez, chair of the LatinX in ChE Community and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Colorado, talks about the group's aims and how it has already begun to make a difference.
Jack Dever Named AIChE’s 2023 Evans Chemical Engineering Practice Award Recipient
Dever is being recognized for scale-ups and commercialization of ethylene oxide and acrylic acid process technologies, as well as for doubling the growth of the Mid-Atlantic Technology and Innovation Center.
Georgia Tech’s Christopher Jones Is AIChE’s Industrial Gases Award Recipient
Jones is being honored for the design of adsorptive materials and processes for the capture and purification of gases, including diverse industrial gases and ground-breaking contributions to carbon dioxide capture from air.
Hal Alper of UT Austin Is AIChE’s 2023 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient
Alper is being recognized for pioneering contributions in the fields of synthetic biology and metabolic engineering, and for profoundly impacting the field of industrial biotechnology.
A Familia Affair: LatinX in ChE Becomes a Community
LatinX in Chemical Engineering is finalizing programming for the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting and warmly welcomes its varied members to join in and meet the rest of the family in Orlando this fall.
Pfizer’s Ranga Godavarti Is AIChE’s 2023 Industrial R&D Award Recipient
Ranga Godavarti is being recognized for for outstanding leadership of pharmaceutical development, including development of the COVID vaccine.
Data Analytics Internships Benefit New ChE Professionals and Hiring Companies
In addition to the chemical engineering internships in data analytics, current courses cover Python, data visualization, data extraction using SQL, fundamentals of process control, statistical programming, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and more.
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis Is AIChE’s 2023 Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award Recipient
Curtis is being honored for pioneering work in particle technology as well as for international leadership in education, diversity, and inclusivity in the engineering profession.