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June 2012

Sheldon Isakoff, AIChE Past President and Director of DuPont R&D

June 6, 2012
Sheldon E. Isakoff, a former director of Engineering Research and Development at DuPont and a past president of AIChE, died on Jan. 29, 2012.

Karl Johnson

Karl Johnson is a Fellow of AIChE and William Kepler Whiteford Professor in the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, where he also serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Research Computing. He joined the department in 1995, before which he was a National Research Council Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC.

He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 1992 from Cornell University and MS and BS degrees, also in Chemical Engineering, from Brigham Young University. His area of research involves...Read more

Stephen Zitney

Dr. Zitney serves as Director for the AVESTAR™ Center and also directs Process & Dynamic Systems Research under NETL's Regional University Alliance (NETL-RUA). He has over 20 years experience in process systems engineering R&D, with a strong emphasis in the areas of steady-state and dynamic process simulation and optimization; real-time operator training systems (OTS) and 3D virtual immersive training systems (ITS); process/equipment co-simulation and computational fluid dynamics (CFD); and advanced numerical methods and high-performance computing.

Before joining NETL in...Read more

CEI Leadership

See full list of leaders in CEI's Executive Committee and Advisory Board.

64th Institute Lecture

This year's Institute Lecture is "Multiblock Polymers: Panacea or Pandora’s Box?" by Frank Bates of the University of Minnesota.

Professional Progress Award Lecture

Christopher Bowman of the University of Colorado speaks on fundamentals, applications and photopolymerizations.

Frank Bates

Frank Bates is a Regents Professor and Department Head at the University of Minnesota. He is also Principal Investigator for the Bates Research Group whose research involves thermodynamics and dynamics of polymers and polymer mixtures.Read more

Christopher N. Bowman

Christopher N. Bowman is a Patten Professor and Department Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Colorado. He is also a Clinical Professor of Restorative Dentistry and Co-Director of the NSF I/UCRC for Fundamentals and Applications and Photopolymerizations.Read more

Answers to Career FAQs by Chemical Engineers

Are you interested in a career in chemical engineering? Deciding which college courses to take? Wondering about life after graduation? We interviewed three AIChE members, representing different career paths in chemical engineering. They answer students' most frequently asked questions about...

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