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Senyo Opong selected for 2021 Management Award

[June 13, 2021] Senyo Opong was selected as the recipient of this year’s Management Award. The award will be presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting to be held in November 2021 in Boston, Massachusetts. Senyo Opong is the Engineering Technology Leader for DuPont where he has worked for more than 30 years. He is responsible for strategic leadership and stewardship of DuPont’s critical engineering competencies, the corporate Field Engineering and Supply Chain Development Program, and the corporate Capital Center of Excellence. Prior to his current role, Dr. Opong served as the Global Engineering...

Cramer selected for 2021 Management Division Service Award

Joe Cramer has served the Management Division in various capacities for many years, which resulted in being recognized with the division service award in 2021. In addition to serving as division Chair in 2019, which means he was Vice Chair the previous year and Past Chair in 2020, he also served as Programming Chair since 2014. In recent years he was able to delegate some of the programming tasks to new volunteers, many of which he recruited himself. Joe’s contributions to the Management Division have been very significant and he always volunteers for any new task that is initiated. He has...

Dr. Moiz Diwan selected to receive 2021 Young Leader Award

[February 11, 2021] The Management Division Young Leader Award recognizes an outstanding leader age 40 or younger who has made a significant contribution to the success of their organization by advancing a scope, project, unit, plant, division, technology, strategy, or company that made an impact to the practice or field of chemical engineering. Dr. Moiz Diwan was selected to receive this award in 2021, the second year this award is presented. The presentation will take place during the 2021 AIChE Spring Meeting held virtually at a session on April 20, 2021 at 11:00 am CST. Moiz Diwan is a...

Scott Klara selected for 2020 Management Award

[June 16, 2020] Scott Klara was named as recipient of this year’s Management Award. The award will be presented at the AIChE Annual Meeting to be held in November 2020 in San Francisco, California. Scott Klara is currently Associate Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC). He assists in building and growing dynamic relationships with industry, government, and research entities globally in support of the EERC’s mission to provide practical, pioneering solutions to the world’s energy and environmental...

Frank van Lier selected to receive 2020 Management Division Service Award

[March 8, 2020] The Management Division created a Service Award in 2017 to recognize outstanding service to the division. The 2020 recipient of this award is Frank van Lier, who has been contributing to the division for at least the last 20 years. Frank has contributed in many ways to the division. In addition to serving as Vice Chair, Chair, and Past Chair in the early 2000s, he provided leadership in coordinating and presenting a session on Management Careers at the Annual Student Conference on behalf of the division. He did this for about 13 consecutive years. He served as Director from...

Dr. Rui Cruz is first recipient of Young Leader Award

[February 22, 2020] The Management Division created the Young Leader Award to recognize an outstanding leader age 40 or younger who has made a significant contribution to the success of their organization by advancing a scope, project, unit, plant, division, technology, strategy or company that made an impact to the practice or field of chemical engineering. Dr. Rui Cruz will be the first recipient of this award, which will be presented on Monday, March 30, at the 2020 AIChE Spring Meeting in Houston, Texas, USA. Dr Cruz is the Global R&D Director of Industrial Solutions for Dow, Inc.,...

Past Announcements

Past announcements are archived in this section. Dr. Dhaval Bhandari selected to receive 2025 Young Leader Award New in 2025: Impactful Patent Recognition Program Mark Swientoniewski is recognized with 2024 Management Division Service Award Dr. Polina Ware selected to receive 2024 Young Leader Award Shawn Feist selected for the 2023 Management Award Dr. Ran Xu selected for the 2023 Young Leader Award Harold T. Conner, Jr. selected for the 2022 Management Award Aguirre selected for the 2022 Management Division Service Award Dr. Rashi Tiwari recognized with 2022 Young Leader Award Senyo Opong...

Thomas receives 2019 Management Award

[November 2019] The Management Division presented the 2019 Management Award to Dr. Cristina Thomas, Manager of Corporate R&D Services Center at 3M, on November 12, 2019 at a special session during the AIChE Annual Meeting. We are grateful to Strata-G, LLC for sponsoring the award. From left to right: Dan Hurst (President & CEO, Strata-G, LLC), Cristina Thomas (3M), Joe Cramer (2019 Chair, Management Division)

AIChE/ACS Chicago Joint January 2025 Meeting

January 3, 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025,
5:45pm to 9:00pm
CST
The Chicago Section of the AIChE and ACS are delighted to announce that they will be hosting an in-person meeting on January 16, 2025. The event will feature Dr. Omar K. Farha , who is a Professor in Chemistry at Northwestern University, Executive editor for ACS Applied Materials Interfaces and...Read more

Why Should You Attend?

Why Should You Attend? This workshop provides a platform to deepen understanding, exchange knowledge, and enhance practical skills in the evolving field of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage. Here are just some of the reasons to attend: Confidential Knowledge Exchange for Real-World...

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