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T. David Griffith

Dr. Griffith received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, then ranked number one in Chemical Engineering. After working in research on enhanced oil recovery (EOR), he and two friends started a small chemical company in Wisconsin specializing in furniture restoration products. Later, his career took a major shift when he developed a record setting electronic data interchange (EDI) software package for his wife’s computer software...Read more

Alan Gabelman

Alan Gabelman's long, successful career in flavors, fermentation and specialty chemicals has included assignments in process engineering, manufacturing, research and development, and scale-up. He has worked for industry leaders such as Firmenich, Givaudan, Hercules and Stauffer Chemical Company, where he held positions ranging from Production Engineer to Process Science Director.Read more

CMTC 2015 Interviews

Charles McConnell, Executive Director of the Energy and Environment Initiative at Rice University On the present importance of CCUS Janet Gellici, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the National Coal Council On policy parity for CCUS Julio Friedmann, Principal Deputy Assistant...

Graduate Student Research Spotlight

Are you a graduate student who recently published research? Are you interested in sharing that research with over 10,000 readers in the chemical engineering community? If so, ChEnected , AIChE's blog, wants to feature you and your research through a new online series, the Spotlight on Graduate Research. Each month a new graduate student and their research will be featured on the blog and shared on AIChE's social media platforms that reach over 10,000 chemical engineers worldwide. Similarly, AIChE will be hosting quarterly webinars featuring recently published research. Two to four graduate...

Poh Chueh Loo

Dr. Chueh Loo Poh is an Assistant Professor with the Division of Bioengineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore since 2007. He obtained his PhD in Bioengineering from Imperial College London and B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from NTU Singapore. After completing his B.Eng., he joined Accenture Pte Ltd and specialized in Information Technology Consulting. He was awarded NTU overseas PhD scholarship in 2003 to pursue a PhD at Imperial College London. He was awarded NTU Excellence in Teaching award in 2010 and he has been a member of IEEE since 2007....Read more

Garry Merry

Garry Merry’s career in the life sciences started as a Medical Laboratory Technician at the local hospital in Ayrshire, Scotland. Following undergraduate studies at Glasgow College of Technology and a graduate degree in Protein Biochemistry from St. Andrews University, he joined Waters Associates as a Project Manager responsible for the sales and marketing of HPLC to the Life Science Market in the UK. After four years at Waters, Mr. Merry joined Beckman Instruments International based in Geneva, Switzerland in the role of European Sales & Marketing Manager for HPLC.

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Holiday Social Event

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Holiday Social Event

Sunday, December 20, 2015, 6:00pm CST
The Chicago Local AIChE Section would like to invite you to a social event (drinks after work) to celebrate the holidays. If you are interested in attending please email Nicolas Guzman nguzman@BakerRisk.com so that we know how many tables to reserve by Friday, December 18th . There will be some...Read more

Basics of the Chemical Industry

eLearning (online) Course
The chemical industry value chain is complex. In this online course, you’ll gain a high-level review of the manufacture and markets for roughly 70...

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