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Nimir Elbashir

Dr. Elbashir holds a joint appointment as a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Program and the Petroleum Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He is the Director of Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station Gas and Fuels Research Center; a major research center that involves 30 professors from both Texas A&M University main campus in College Station and Qatar campus (http://gfrc.tamu.edu/). Dr. Elbashir is also the Chair of the ORYX GTL Gas-to-Liquid Technology Excellence Program. He has extensive research and teaching...Read more

Andrej Lenert

Andrej Lenert is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. His interests lie at the intersection of heat and mass transfer, optics, and nanomaterials. He completed his PhD at MIT in 2014, under the supervision of Evelyn Wang. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan, working with the Nanoscale Transport Lab and the Center for Photonic and Multiscale Nanomaterials. In 2016, he was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in Science for his contributions to the field of thermophotovoltaics (TPVs). This work on TPVs was...Read more

Process Development Symposium - 2020 - DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

Fani Boukouvala

Research Interests:

  • Algorithmic developments in data-driven modeling and optimization
  • Big-Data approaches for optimization of energy efficiency
  • Simulation-based optimization under uncertainty for CO2 sequestration
  • Process modeling and optimization for drug design & manufacturing

The role of computer simulations and data is continuously growing, since scientific discovery heavily relies on computer simulations, while at the same time advanced instrumentation is enabling the collection of large amounts of data. Dr. Boukouvala’s...Read more

2020 CAST Directors’ Student Presentation Award

February 28, 2020
The CAST Division calls for student presentation award nominations. Eight students will be selected as finalists to present a research paper during the AIChE Annual meeting. Nomination package is due 15 April 2020. Note that the student's AIChE membership number must be a part of the nomination...Read more

2019 Annual Meeting Photos

A subset of photos taken during the CAST Banquet during the 2019 Annual Meeting in Orlando

2019 CAST Election Results

February 28, 2020
Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2019 elections of the CAST division. I am pleased to announce the results: 2nd Vice Chair (2020): Martha Grover Treasurer/Secretary (2020-21): John Siirola Directors (2020-2022): Thomas Adams and Rahul Bindlish Programming coordinators (2022) 10A:...Read more

Christian Wölbeling

Christian Woelbeling is Senior Director Global Accounts at Werum IT Solutions based in Lueneburg, Germany, part of the Körber Pharma. Werum IT Solutions is the world’s leading supplier of manufacturing execution systems (MES) and manufacturing IT solutions for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Its PAS-X software product is run by the majority of the world’s top 30 pharmaceutical and biotech companies and also by many mid-sized manufacturers including leading global chinese pharmaceutical organizations. He helds a Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Since more than...Read more

Jayant Khambekar

Dr. Jayant Khambekar is a Senior Consultant at Jenike & Johanson’s Houston office.   Jayant is heavily involved in consulting on various powder and bulk solids handling issues.  He has worked on more than 200 projects spanning various applications such as polymers and catalysts handling, degassing, biomass handling, coal handling, mining, etc., and working on addressing various flow problems such as arching, ratholing, segregation, and flow rate limitations.  Jayant has published several papers and also lectures on the storage and flow of bulk solids.  Jayant...Read more

Valerie Jones Taylor

Dr. Valerie Jones Taylor is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies at Lehigh University. She earned a doctorate in social psychology at Stanford University and a B.A. in psychology and ethnic studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Before joining Lehigh’s faculty, Taylor served as an assistant professor at Spelman College and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University. Her research areas include intergroup relations, social identity threat, stereotyping and discrimination, and cultural psychology. Specifically, she investigates how stereotyping and prejudice...Read more

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