Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering

A plaque and $4,000, plus a $500 travel allowance.

The award recognizes outstanding progress in the field of chemical engineering. The awardee will have made a significant contribution to the science of chemical engineering through one of the following means:

• A theoretical discovery or development of a new principle in the chemical engineering field.
• Development of a new process or product in the chemical engineering field.
• An invention or development of new equipment in the chemical engineering field.
• Distinguished service rendered to the field or profession of chemical engineering.
• The award candidate must have earned his or her highest academic degree within 22 calendar years of the year in which the award is presented. (For the 2024 award cycle, the candidate must have earned his or her highest academic degree between 2002 and the present.)
• The recipient does not have to be a member of AIChE.

The recipient is invited to deliver an address either at the time of the award presentation or later.

Nominations: General award provisions, a description of the nomination packet, and a link to the nomination platform can be found at https://www.aiche.org/community/awards/awards-provisions-eligibility.

Note from the Foundation:

Please join AIChE’s effort to endow this award in Andreas Acrvios’ honor. To underwrite this award, we are asking Andy’s colleagues, former students, and friends to consider a gift in his honor that will allow AIChE to present this award annually, in perpetuity. All donors to the award will be recognized nationally each year. To make a gift to be used exclusively in support of the Andreas Acrivos Award for Professional Progress in Chemical Engineering.

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