Gordon Ellis
Gordon Ellis has been on staff at AIChE for more than two decades, with many years’ experience working with volunteer groups, member activities and student programs. He now concentrates on writing and editing for Chemical Engineering Progress magazine.
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AIChE Spotlights MAC’s Pioneers of Diversity
Join us in celebrating Black History Month with a look at the history of AIChE’s Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) and interviews featuring its prominent leaders and advocates.
Nominations Open for AIChE’s Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards
Know an extraordinary chemical engineer in industry or academia? Nominate them for the 2024 Institute and Board of Directors' Awards.
AIChE’s Chem-E-Car Competition® at 25 Years: A Look Back, Part 1
Did you know Chem-E-Car was initially inspired by a plastics recycling competition in the early 1990s? Learn more about its origins and history in this two-part series.
AIChE’s Chem-E-Car Competition® at 25 Years: A Look Back, Part 2
Learn how Chem-E-Car suddenly went global and find out how its rules have changed over the years. Plus, see photos from past years.
Introducing Some of AIChE’s New Fellows
Meet these recently elected fellows from academia and industry, and learn about their impressive careers and accomplishments.
Meet Some of AIChE’s Recently Elected Fellows
Meet these recently elected AIChE Fellows and read about their impressive careers and accomplishments.
Ioannis Kevrekidis of Johns Hopkins Will Receive AIChE’s Walker Award for Chemical Engineering Literature
Kevrekidis is being recognized for transformative contributions to chemical engineering modeling, integrating physical insight with data-driven/machine learning approaches, and modern scientific computation for complex, multiscale systems.
Westmoreland Receives Van Antwerpen Award for Service to AIChE
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.
Sujit Datta Is AIChE’s 2023 Allan P. Colburn Award Recipient
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.
Berkeley’s Jeffrey Reimer Will Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education
Dr. Reimer is being recognized for outstanding contributions to chemical engineering education as well as excellence in research.
Maria Wang of PPG Is AIChE’s Industrial Progress Award Recipient
Wang is being recognized for her significant contributions to the coatings industry.
DuPont’s Prime RO Team Is the 2023 Energy and Sustainability Award Recipient
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.
Representation and Inspiration: The LatinX in ChE Community
Gabriel Rodriguez, chair of the LatinX in ChE Community and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Colorado, talks about the group's aims and how it has already begun to make a difference.
Jack Dever Named AIChE’s 2023 Evans Chemical Engineering Practice Award Recipient
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.
Georgia Tech’s Christopher Jones Is AIChE’s Industrial Gases Award Recipient
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.