Melissa Collins is a seasoned instructional designer with TDS who has more than 15 years of instructional design and managerial experience. During her career Melissa has had opportunity to hone her skills and broaden her knowledge in a variety of settings including health care, education (primary, secondary, and community college), aerospace, waste management, and process industry.
Her areas of expertise include instructional systems design, needs assessments and gap analysis, project management, job task analysis, classroom training and facilitation, textbook authoring, and...Read more
Greg Shaffer is a performance advisor for TDS who has over 30 years of experience in the petrochemical industry in various roles including operator, front line shift supervisor, operations assistant, trainer, facilitator, and plant training coordinator for a facility of over 600 employees. As a facilitative trainer, Greg has focused his efforts on organizational development and training improvement by offering his expertise in operations fundamentals, operations troubleshooting, team building, leadership and supervisory skills, communications, conflict resolution, trainer training, and...Read more
The Award will be presented at the Sustainable Engineering Forum during the AIChE Annual National Meeting. The Forum may offer to present the award at a SEF plenary session.
Nomination Instructions
The applicant’s achievements will be based on publications (articles, patents, and internal reports) and reputation substantiated by at least three (3) written recommendations. The selection of the Awardee for a given year will be based on their continued contributions to the development, implementation and dissemination of sustainable engineering practice in the chemical process industry and related fields. Contributions may include paradigms for sustainable development and/or general application of new practices. The Awardee need not necessarily be a chemical engineer. The applicant or at least one member of the team must be a member of AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum at the time of application.
Nomination documents should be submitted to: Dr. Ignasi Palou-Rivera as a single PDF file by email
SEF Awards Committee Chair: Dr. Ignasi Palou-Rivera
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