This series introduces the recipients of AIChE’s 2024 Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards, AIChE’s highest honors. Recipients are nominated by the chemical engineering community and voted upon by the members of AIChE’s volunteer-led Awards Committee. The Board of Directors’ Award honorees are nominated by the community and selected by AIChE’s Executive Committee.
Gintaras Reklaitis of Purdue Named AIChE’s 2024 Founders Award Recipient
Dr. Gintaras “Rex” Reklaitis has amassed an expansive legacy through his research, writing, professional affiliations, and as a teacher and mentor.
Ying Diao, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Named AIChE’s Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient
Diao is being recognized for work that fuses molecular assembly with surface science, as well as for innovations in scalable printing methods for nanomaterials.
Ali Khademhosseini Is AIChE’s 2024 Acrivos Professional Progress Award Recipient
Ali is being recognized for his work with micro- and nano-engineered biomaterials in regenerative medicine, medical devices, and organs-on-a-chip systems.
Venkat Venkatasubramanian of Columbia Will Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature
Venkat is being honored for pioneering contributions in AI for process fault diagnosis, supervisory control, process safety, and the inverse design of materials.
Princeton’s Panagiotopoulos Is AIChE’s 2024 Alpha Chi Sigma Award Recipient
The award recognizes his novel approaches and transformative insights into the thermodynamics, structure, and dynamics in complex mixtures, especially electrolyte solutions, colloidal crystals, and intrinsically disordered proteins.
Aqil Jamal of Saudi Aramco Named AIChE’s Energy and Sustainability Award Recipient
Dr. Jamal is being recognized for his contributions to industrial-academia partnership and technical research in the field of carbon capture and conversion to sustainable fuels and chemicals.
Eli Lilly’s Christopher Burcham Selected as AIChE’s Industrial R&D Award Recipient
Burcham is being recognized for his contributions to the fields of crystallization, particle engineering, and process control strategies; and for bringing new therapies to market.
Georgia Tech’s Krista Walton Is AIChE’s Industrial Gases Award Recipient
Walton is being honored for groundbreaking research on the understanding and control of hydrolytic and chemical stability of metal-organic frameworks, and for its transformative impact on industrial gas.
UC Santa Barbara’s James Rawlings Will Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education
Dr. Rawlings is being honored for groundbreaking research in the theory and application of model predictive control, and for leadership in education.
De-Wei Yin of Dow Chemical Will Receive AIChE’s Award for Service to Society
Yin is being recognized for his service to society exhibited through leadership, championing AIChE diversity groups, and leading student STEM outreach in his local community.
Megan Donaldson of Dow Is AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient
Megan is being recognized for her work in advanced separation technology for sustainable chemical processing, as well as for driving culture change in the profession.
Umit Ozkan of The Ohio State University Is AIChE’s Margaret H. Rousseau Pioneer Award Recipient
Ozkan is being recognized for her work bridging heterogeneous catalysis and electrocatalysis, in addition to her outstanding work as teacher and mentor.
Fabio Ribeiro of Purdue Is AIChE’s R. H. Wilhelm Award Recipient
Fabio is being recognized for his pioneering work with catalysts for energy conversion and pollution abatement.
S. Shariq Yosufzai Receives 2024 Van Antwerpen Award for Service to AIChE
ChEnected is introducing readers to the recipients of AIChE’s 2024 Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards.