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Candidates for AIChE Fellow are nominated by their peers and must have significant chemical engineering experience (generally 25 years). In addition, they must have demonstrated significant service to the profession as well as have been a member of AIChE for at least 10 years.
Please see below to learn more about some of AIChE’s recently elected Fellows. More Fellows will be introduced in future issues of CEP.
André Bernard
André Bernard is a senior process engineer in the Central Engineering Dept. at NOVA Chemicals (Saint Clair, Ontario, Canada). An expert in ethylene technology, process simulation, and distillation, he has more than 30 years of experience in petrochemical plant operations and process design, and he has developed methodologies for evaluating the capacity and performance of distillation equipment. He has chaired numerous ethylene-related sessions at recent AIChE Spring Meetings. He is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of Ontario and Québec in Canada, and he is a chemical engineering alumnus of l’École Polytechnique de Montréal.
Ravi Kane
Ravi Kane is the Garry Betty/V Foundation Chair and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and Professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Bio-molecular Engineering. His research lies at the interface of biotechnology and nanotechnology, and ranges from the design of polyvalent inhibitors of bacterial toxins to the design of broadly protective vaccines. He previously served as Head of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is also Associate Editor of the Annual Review of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, and he co-organized the inaugural AIChE/SBE conference on Bioengineering and Translational Medicine.
Mark J. McCready
Mark J. McCready is Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Senior Associate Dean of Engineering for Research and Faculty Affairs at the Univ. of Notre Dame, where he has taught more than 2,000 students and directed 21 PhD theses over the course of 40 years. His research focuses on multiphase fluid mechanics and transport processes with applications to chemical process technologies and physiology. He has chaired numerous sessions on these topics at AIChE Annual Meetings. He also served as Program Chair of the 2000 AIChE Annual Meeting and chaired AIChE’s Executive Program Committee.
John C. Mihm
John C. Mihm worked for Phillips Petroleum Co. (now ConocoPhillips) for 38 years in a variety of management positions, retiring as Senior Vice President of Technology and Product Development in 2003. He played a key role in the completion and start-up of the Ekofisk Production Platform in the North Sea, and he directed the R&D of many refining and petrochemical processes. His career also includes extensive experience in China, working in offshore development and onshore coal bed methane exploration. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas and Oklahoma, and a chemical engineering alumnus of Texas Tech Univ.
Xuejun Pan
Xuejun Pan is the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Douglas D. Sorenson Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). His research focuses on innovative technologies for converting lignocellulosic biomass into liquid fuels, platform chemicals, and functionalized materials. He earned his BS, MS, and PhD in chemical engineering (specializing in pulp and paper science and engineering) at Tianjin Univ. of Science and Technology (China), and a PhD in applied bioscience at Hokkaido Univ. (Japan). He was a postdoctoral researcher at Georgia Tech, the Univ. of Minnesota, and the Univ. of British Columbia before joining the UW faculty.
Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos
Carlos M. Rinaldi-Ramos is the Dean’s Leadership Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering at the Univ. of Florida, where he is also a professor of biomedical engineering and an affiliate faculty member in the Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering. His research interests include the ferrohydrodynamics and biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles. His AIChE service includes chairing the Minority Affairs Community, co-organizing the Chemical Engineering Future Faculty Seminar Series and the Allies and Advocates Training Session at the 2021 Annual Meeting, and participating as a panelist in the IDEAL discussion at the 2023 Annual Meeting.