AIChE’s 2010 Annual Meeting Kicks Off in Salt Lake City [On Location]

The most important ChemE event of the year is taking place this year in Salt Lake City from today through Friday, November 12, 2010. AIChE's Annual Meeting, or simply "Annual" as it is often called, draws more than 5,000 attendees comprised of students, academic professionals, and Industry professionals from across the spectrum of the chemical engineering profession.

Meeting by the Great Salt Lake

The Annual Meeting has returned to Salt Lake City, Utah after its successful event there in 2007. Plenary lectures, 12 topical conferences, more than 700 technical sessions, and multiple special events and keynote speeches will take place at the Salt Palace Convention Center and nearby Marriott and Hilton hotels.

Stay Connected to Annual with ChEnected

ChEnected will be covering many of the events at Annual with a few dedicated bloggers and the help of multiple volunteers at the meeting. If you're one of them, Thank You!

Regardless of whether you're at this year's meeting or not, you can follow it right here on ChEnected or via our Facebook Page or Twitter Stream. Check out the meeting highlights below and as the meeting progresses, we'll link to the events we're covering.

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http://chenected.aiche.org/2010Annual/

Meeting Highlights Include:

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Sunday, November 7:

• 12^th National College Chem-E-Car Competition
• 2010 AIChE Industrial and Academic Award Ceremony

Monday, November 8:

• Danckwerts Lecture, Chemical Engineering Outside the Pipe: Industrial Ecology and Sustainability
• Annual Meeting Plenary: Energy and Water Sustainability for a Smart Planet

Tuesday, November 9:

• Bionanotechnology Plenary Session on applications for cancer therapy, HIV, and MRSA
• Professional Progress Award Lecture, Biology in Four Dimensions: Dynamic Hydrogel Niches for Tissue Regeneration.
• Sustainable Energy: Generation and Storage
• James E. Bailey Award Lecture: Evolving Biological Engineering [Sponsored by SBE]

Wednesday, November 10

• Advances in Metabolic Engineering and Bioinformatics I--Biofuels
• 62^nd AIChE Institute Lecture: Chemical Engineering in a Complex World: Grand Challenges, Vast Opportunities
• Climate Change Legislation and Regulation

Thursday, November 11

• Genentech: A Rich History of Chemical Engineering Innovation--3^rd Corporate Innovation Award & Lecture
• Chemical Engineering Advances in Processing Radioactive Wastes and Nuclear Materials

Friday, November 12

• Contaminant Transport and Site Remediation

Thanks for checking in on ChEnected during this important week for chemical engineering. It's ChEnected's first attempt at blogging at the meeting so forgive us for any typos/errors we may make as we scurry to bring a taste of Annual to your computer screen. But feel free to point out any typo or error in the comments section of any blog.