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Center for Chemical Process Safety Marks 30 Years of Contributions to Industrial Safety

In April 2015, safety personnel from a variety of industries, including chemical, energy and pharmaceutical facilities, will gather in Austin, Texas, for the 11th Global Congress on Process Safety. The Global Congress, held in connection with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE)...

More than 600 will Attend the First-ever CCPS Conference in the Middle East

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS), will be hosting the largest process safety conference in the Middle East.  The Middle East Process Safety Conference (MEPSC) will be held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from May 19 to...

Engineering Diversity Workshop will Lay Groundwork for Outreach to Underrepresented Groups

Attendees at the 2015 AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in Austin, TX (April 25–29), can help shape the Institute’s inclusiveness efforts aimed at underrepresented members of the chemical engineering workforce during a special Engineering Diversity Initiatives Planning...

AIChE Opens Houston Office

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...

L. S. Fan is Named AIChE's 67th Institute Lecturer

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) has announced its Institute Lecturer for 2015. ...

AIChE-CCPS Conference Promotes Chemical Process Safety in the Asia-Pacific Region

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...

Schlanger Receives AIChE's Government and Industry Leaders Award

Marvin O. Schlanger, Chairman and former Chief Executive Officer of CEVA Group PLC and former Chairman of the Supervisory Board at LyondellBasell Industries, N.V., will receive the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Government and Industry Leaders (AGILE) Award — an award given by...

Minority Affairs Committee Marks a Quarter Century of Progress

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...

Institute for Sustainability Announces New Leader

The Institute for Sustainability (IfS), a technological community within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), has named David T. Allen, Gertz Regents Professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Resources in the Cockrell School of...

Chemical Engineers Offer Recommendations for Establishing Process Safety Investigation Boards

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...

Process Safety Community Convenes at Global Summit in Mumbai

More than 170 executives and engineers from more than 50 companies gathered in Mumbai, India, from December 15–16 for the 2014 Global Summit on Process Safety, with a goal of reducing the number and potential impact of industrial incidents. ...

AIChE Salutes Corporate Leaders for Promoting Diversity in Engineering

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,...

AIChE Names New Officers, Announces Election Results

At its Business Meeting on November 17, held during the AIChE Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, AIChE announced the results of its 2014 election, and introduced its new Board of Directors for 2015.  Cheryl Teich, Reaction Engineering Expertise Area Leader at The Dow Chemical Company, will...

Evonik Supports AIChE’s Founders Award

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...

Air Products Sponsors AIChE’s Energy and Sustainability Award

Air Products, the Allentown, PA-based provider of industrial gases, has announced that it will sponsor AIChE's Energy and Sustainability Award — one of several Institute honors that recognize outstanding contributions to industrial practice.The 2014 Energy and Sustainability Award recipient is Dr....

AIChE Names New Conference Director

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...

Virtual Career Fair will Connect Chemical Engineers and Employers

Job seekers in the chemical engineering arena, along with representatives from many of the companies and industries that employ them, will discuss job opportunities and make employment connections when The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) presents the latest installment in its...

Georges Belfort is Selected Chair of the Society for Biological Engineering

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...

Center for Chemical Process Safety Names New Executive Director

The Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of AIChE (the American Institute of Chemical Engineers) announced that Shakeel Kadri, currently director, global process safety and risk management, for Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., will become CCPS executive director in 2015. Kadri will replace...

Douglas Clark, Ravi Kane Receive Awards from AIChE’s Society for Biological Engineering

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...

Center for Chemical Process Safety Joins Effort to Improve Safety in West Virginia

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and its Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) teamed with the West Virginia Manufacturers Association, the American Chemistry Council, and the National Association of Chemical Distributors on September 8, 2014, for a day-long meeting designed...

AIChE Gala to Showcase a Diverse Chemical Engineering Profession

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...

AIChE Focuses on Women Engineers' Retention and Re-Entry in the Workforce

To ensure that every chemical engineer achieves his or her career potential, the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is addressing the issues of women’s career navigation, work/life integration, and professional development with a new initiative, Women’s Workplace Retention and...

Cybersecurity is Not Just an Information Technology Issue

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,...

AIChE Expands International Conferences

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is growing its roster of international conferences. In Summer 2014, AIChE will sponsor or co-sponsor conferences in six countries, devoted to topics such as industrial safety, advances in and biological and metabolic engineering, and alternative...

Alper Receives Jay Bailey Young Investigator Award in Metabolic Engineering

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...

Hatzimanikatis Receives 2014 International Metabolic Engineering Award

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, an associate professor of chemical engineering and bioengineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL; Lausanne, Switzerland), has been named the recipient of the 2014 International Metabolic Engineering Award. The award, presented every two years by the...

Preston Wins 2014 D. I. C. Wang Award for Excellence in Biochemical Engineering

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...

Full Statement: AIChE and the Industrial Exemption‚ April 2014

To help provide a competent and ethical chemical engineering workforce, and to make them more employable, AIChE strongly encourages its members to become professionally licensed.  AIChE supports the industrial exemption for companies that are properly insured and have in place the necessary...

AIChE Affirms Strong Support for Both Licensure and the Industrial Exemption

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...

AIChE WISE Intern is Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Andrew Crothers, a recent chemical engineering graduate at North Carolina State Univ. and an AIChE-sponsored participant in the Washington Internships for Science and Engineering (WISE) program, has been named a recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program...

Shale Gas and Shale Oil, In Depth

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...

"Are There Gorillas in Your Plant"

NEW ORLEANS – Safe practices in chemical and related industries, along with methods to identify and eliminate potential hazards, will be in the spotlight at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) 2014 Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety at the Hilton New...

Banholzer Receives AIChE's Government and Industry Leaders (AGILE) Award

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...

Experts will Discuss Shale Technology at AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS – The technologies and design challenges involved in extracting and handling shale gas and tight oil (also known as shale oil or light tight oil) will be a highlight of American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE’s) 2014 Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety....

"Best Papers" Highlight Process Safety Accomplishments

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.

Chemical Engineers Meet in New Orleans; Highlights Include Process Safety, Shale Gas Programs

NEW ORLEANS – The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will hold its 2014 Spring Meeting and 10th Global Congress on Process Safety (GCPS) at the Hilton New Orleans – Riverside from March 30 to April 3. The meeting, consisting of 150 sessions across eight topical conferences and...

Society for Biological Engineering Set to Host 4th International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering

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...

CCPS Executive Director Scott Berger Announces Retirement

Scott Berger has announced plans to retire as executive director of the Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), effective December 31, 2014. AIChE’s leadership has begun a search for Berger’s successor, in order to assure a smooth and...

AIChE Honors Industry Leaders for Excellence in Ethics

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...

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Names New Officers, Board for 2014

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) announced that Otis Shelton, director of Praxair’s Corporate Safety and Environmental Services Assessment Program for Praxair facilities worldwide, will become president of the organization in 2014.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers Honors Outstanding Individual Achievements With 2013 Awards

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.

Alternative fuels Power Team to Victory at CHEM-E-CAR Competition

Contact:  Danielle Gross ...

Chemical Engineers from Around the World Meet in San Francisco

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.

AIChE and IChemE Partner to Address Interconnected Global Challenge

American Institute of Chemical Engineers and Institution of Chemical Engineers partner to address interconnected global challenges related to water, energy, and food supplies. ...

Chem-E-Car Competition Drives Innovation, Alternative Fuels

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

Chemical Engineering Conference in San Francisco Highlights Sustainability, Waste Management, Water Use, and Bioengineering

See highlights of what to expect for the 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

Dr. Kristi Anseth Wins 2013 James E. Bailey Award Winner

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...

Keasling Receives George Washington Carver Award

Jay Keasling, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), will receive the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s 2013 George Washington Carver Award.

American Institute of Chemical Engineers' Salary Survey finds Improved Equality Between Genders

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.

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