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The New York City-based American Institute of Chemical Engineers has established a new satellite office in Houston, TX. The Houston location will provide employees and members of AIChE and its subsidiary groups — including the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) — with a setting for...

Company executives and engineers working in the oil, gas, and chemical industries of Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific island nations, recently gathered with researchers and representatives from governmental agencies to explore ways to improve safe practices in that region’s industrial...

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is witnessing the emergence of a more multifaceted and inclusive engineering community, thanks in part to the work of its Minority Affairs Committee. In 2015, the AIChE Minority Affairs Committee is celebrating its accomplishments and the strides...

AIChE (the American Institute of Chemical Engineers) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) have released a new white paper, “Recommendations for Establishing Process Safety Investigation Boards.” According to Scott Berger, CCPS’s executive director, “the continued growth of...

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) honored Patricia A. Woertz, Chairman and CEO of Archer Daniels Midland; Ryan M. Lance, Chairman and CEO of ConocoPhillips; and Raj L. Gupta, Executive Chairman of Avantor Performance Materials and retired Chairman and CEO of Rohm and Haas Company,...

Evonik Corporation, a provider of specialty chemicals for a spectrum of industries, has announced it will support AIChE's Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering.The award, presented annually by AIChE’s Board of Directors, celebrates the accomplishment of...

AIChE has announced that Kristine Chin has been named director, conferences, a newly created position combining the development of meeting content with meeting operations. Chin will join AIChE’s senior executive team.In making the announcement, June Wispelwey, AIChE’s executive director, said...

Dr. Georges Belfort, Institute Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, has been selected to chair the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), a technological community within AIChE (the American Institute of Chemical...

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) are honoring two of the bioengineering field’s leading researchers.Dr. Douglas S. Clark, dean of the College of Chemistry and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University...

NEW YORK – A celebration of a diverse and culturally integrated chemical engineering profession will bring together leaders of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and companies in the chemical process and related industries for AIChE’s 2014 Gala, to be held Friday, Dec. 5, at...

Cybersecurity, as defined by author Gregory J. Touhill, the current Deputy Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity Operations and Programs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “is the deliberate synergy of technologies, processes, and practices to protect information — and the networks,...

Hal Alper, an assistant professor of chemical engineering and Fellow of the Paul D. and Betty Robertson Meek Centennial Professorship at The University of Texas at Austin (UT), has been selected by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES) to receive its Jay Bailey Young Investigator...

Lynn Preston, Deputy Director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers of the Directorate for Engineering at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), is the recipient of the 2014 D. I. C. Wang Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering. The honor, which is co-sponsored by the...

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is reaffirming its support of an engineering licensing policy known as the industrial exemption, while continuing to strongly encourage individual engineers to pursue licensure. The industrial exemption policy excludes industrial employers from...

NEW ORLEANS – The significant economic opportunities — and the engineering challenges — presented by the extraction and handling of shale reserves, will by explored in depth at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) 2014 Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety...

NEW ORLEANS – William F. Banholzer, retired chief technology officer at the Dow Chemical Company and a faculty member in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Wisconsin Energy Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will be the keynote speaker at the American...

To help mark the tenth anniversary of the Global Congress on Process Safety, a series of Process Safety Spotlight sessions will be held on Wednesday, April 2, featuring “best papers” from past congresses.

The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) are partnering to host the 4th International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering, which will be held from March 16 to 19, 2014 at the Coronado...

Contact:  Danielle GrossPhone:    (717) 214-2200Email:  krebs@thebravogroup.comNEW YORK, November 25, 2013 – The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) honored David M. Cote, chairman and CEO of Honeywell; David T. Seaton, chairman and CEO of Fluor; and...

In a ceremony during its Annual Meeting here yesterday, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) presented awards to 12 leaders and innovators in chemical engineering.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), the leading professional organization for chemical engineers, is beginning its Annual Meeting today at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square.

Shoebox-sized Cars Combining Simple (And Sometimes Weird) Materials with Complex Engineering Carry Loads in Hope of Victory at 15th Annual Collegiate Competition.

The Society for Biological Engineering is happy to announce Dr. Kristi S. Anseth as the winner of the 2013 James E. Bailey Award for her outstanding contributions in the development of novel photo-crosslinkable biomaterials for regenerative medicine, tissue engineering applications and for...

As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act, a new salary survey from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has found that apparent gender disparities are accounted for by time taken off for family reasons.