Awards

Check out photos and a comprehensive summary of AIChE’s 2024 Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards, the Institute’s most prestigious honors.

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.

Dr. Rawlings is being honored for groundbreaking research in the theory and application of model predictive control, and for leadership in education.

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.

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.

Alper's lecture will discuss how advances in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology are improving the valorization and remediation of waste.

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.

The new awards recognize exceptional contributions to safety practices in the hydrogen industry.

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Diao is being recognized for work that fuses molecular assembly with surface science, as well as for innovations in scalable printing methods for nanomaterials.

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The award is open to AIChE members, including professionals from academia, industry, and students.

Under the theme of “Inspiring the Power of Good,” the 2024 AIChE Gala will honor exemplary industry leaders at the New York City Pierre Hotel in December.

Grossmann will discuss his application of models and algorithms in the optimal synthesis and planning of sustainable chemical process and energy systems.

Meet these newly elected members of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and learn about their distinguished careers and achievements.

In its relaunch for 2024, the AIChE Chemical Engineering for Good Challenge (ACE4G) will again award cash prizes for winning submissions from chemical engineering students.

Meet these recently elected AIChE Fellows and learn about their impressive careers and accomplishments.

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If you know a student planning to attend an HBCU next year, this STEM scholarship could change their life.

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This year in Orlando, undergraduate chemical engineering students received scholarships and other awards recognizing their achievements. See photos and read more about award winners.

On November 5th around 100 attendees, including K–12 students, their parents, and educators gathered at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting to participate in the K–12 STEM Showcase.

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Westmoreland is being recognized for his outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering profession through service to AIChE, in both the professional and technical areas of Institute activities.

Learn more about this year’s winners who represent a broad range of specialty areas and work in both academia and industry.

Datta is being honored for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering through publications on the physicochemical dynamics of flow instabilities, swellable and shrinkable gels, and living systems in complex porous environments.

Dr. Reimer is being recognized for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education as well as excellence in research.

Wang is being recognized for her significant contributions to the coatings industry.

The Prime RO Team is being recognized for developing five families of the world’s most energy-efficient reverse osmosis membranes and elements that will reduce global CO2 equivalent emissions by 85,000 tons per year.  

Dever is being recognized for scale-ups and commercialization of ethylene oxide and acrylic acid process technologies, as well as for doubling the growth of the Mid-Atlantic Technology and Innovation Center.

Jones is being honored for the design of adsorptive materials and processes for the capture and purification of gases, including diverse industrial gases and ground-breaking contributions to carbon dioxide capture from air.

Ranga Godavarti is being recognized for for outstanding leadership of pharmaceutical development, including development of the COVID vaccine.

Curtis is being honored for pioneering work in particle technology as well as for international leadership in education, diversity, and inclusivity in the engineering profession.

Wang is being recognized for theoretical contributions toward the understanding of transport, thermodynamics, and phase transitions in soft matter.

Dr. Seider is being recognized for his pioneering contributions in chemical engineering research and education spanning six decades.

Learn more about these new Fellows’ impressive careers and accomplishments in industry and academia.

Dr. Liao will receive the award at the Metabolic Engineering Conference taking place in Singapore organized by the International Metabolic Engineering Society (IMES).

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Learn more about these recently named AIChE Fellows and their backgrounds and impressive professional accomplishments.

Do you know a chemical engineering standout who's 35 or younger? Send us your nominations to recognize the best and brightest in chemical engineering's next generation.

Meet these newly elected members of the Nation Academy of Engineering.

Be sure to sign up for this week's webinar if you're interested in joining this year's ChemE Cube Competition in Orlando this fall.

WISE internships give chemical engineering students the opportunity to research public policy topics for nine weeks in Washington and understand how chemical engineering and public policy can productively interact.

Learn how these chemical engineering students in Brazil created a solution to help small communities improve water management for better quality of life.

AIChE celebrated the contributions of Christophe Beck (Ecolab) and Michael K. Wirth (Chevron), and honored Paula T. Hammond (MIT) with the Doing a World of Good Medal.

Meet Andrew Berley of North Carolina State University and learn about his chemical engineering interests, activities, and academic achievements that led to receiving the John J. McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship.

The top trophy went to the University of Toledo team, with a winning distance of 30.4 cm. See all winners in the 2022 AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition.

The Van Antwerpen Award recognizes Seymour for her volunteer leadership contributions to AIChE over more than 25 years.

Savage is being recognized for innovation and leadership in advancing the fields of hydrothermal kinetics, catalysis, and reaction engineering for renewable energy and green chemistry applications.