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Delene Kock

Delene is Aurecon’s Process Safety and Technical Risk Principal, leading a community of practice of safety, process and reliability specialists. Her grounding is chemical engineering and she has worked as a process safety engineer for MHF industries as well as boutique and large consultancies. She has provided assurance through the development of Safety Management Systems, Dangerous Goods Audits, Quantitative Risk Assessments, Hazardous Area Compliance, and leadership of risk reviews. Delene is Vice President of the Australasian Institute...Read more

Racing Boats with Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral: The Science of Surfactants

October 12, 2021
September 28, 2021

Learn about the ESPOL Student Chapter and their experiences with outreach during COVID, and hear their advice to other chemical engineering students.

AIChE Annual Meeting - 2021 - Dow

Michael A. Schmidt

Dr. Michael A. Schmidt is the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientific Officer of Sovaris Aerospace, a company focused on assessment and solutions (countermeasures) applied to humans in space and extreme environments on Earth. Dr. Schmidt is also co-chair of the Advanced Pattern Analysis & Countermeasures Group. His clinical and research work is focused on a systems engineering approach to complex problems of human performance in extreme conditions. He applies the same complexity models derived from space flight countermeasure development to biomarker discovery, predictive analytics,...Read more

Stafford Sheehan

Dr. Stafford (Staff) Sheehan oversees production of Air Company’s products as Chief Technology Officer and developed the technology that converts carbon dioxide into alcohols. Staff is a scientist and entrepreneur who has developed several commercial technologies based on his applied research in the fields of chemistry, physics, and computer science, and has built collaborations with several world-renowned universities and institutes through his research. He completed his PhD at Yale University in 2015 as an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and was awarded Yale’s Wolfgang Prize for the top...Read more

Susan Doll

Michael Ewert

Ewert is the Deputy Project Manager for NASA’s Exploration Life Support Project, which is developing new technologies needed to sustain human life on long-duration space exploration missions.Read more

Michele Faragalli

Dr. Faragalli has conducted research and led multiple projects in the field of planetary rover mobility since 2006. His work has included implementing terramechanics models for JAXA rovers, developing intelligent algorithms and advanced state estimation techniques for a legged robot for DRDC, proposing a novel optimization framework for the design of compliant wheels for a lunar rover and numerous design contributions to CSA rover prototypes. Dr. Faragalli has been invited to lecture on the challenges of planetary mobility and delivers a popular workshop on planetary mobility and analog...Read more

Robert Zubrin

Robert Zubrin is President of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace R&D company located in Lakewood, Colorado. He is also the founder and President of the Mars Society, an international organization dedicated to furthering the exploration and settlement of Mars by both public and private means. Formerly a Staff Engineer at Lockheed Martin Astronautics in Denver, he holds a Masters degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington. 

Zubrin is the inventor of several unique concepts for space propulsion and exploration,...Read more

Terry Rector

Experienced Senior Project Engineer with a demonstrated history of successes in the Defense & Space industry. Skilled in Program Manager, Systems Engineering, Resource Management, Integration, Testing and Verification, Engineering Management, and U.S. Department of Defense. Space operations professional completing a Ph.D. in Aerospace Sciences from the University of North Dakota.Read more

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