2023 AIChE Annual Meeting

Management Division sessions and activities at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting (local times listed).

Saturday, November 4, 2023

11:45 to 12:30 – Annual Student Conference: Management careers and the chemical engineer (Regency Ballroom P, Convention Level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

Monday, November 6, 2023

12:30 to 15:00  – Leading and managing industry-academia collaborations and partnerships (Bayhill 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• Remarks of Dr. Pisupati on industry-university collaborations (Sarma Pisupati, Penn State University)
• Remarks of Glen Cormack on industry-university collaborations (Glen Cormack, The Lubrizol Corporation)
• DEI programs at Tickle College of Engineering (Jeremy Kirk, University of Tennessee)
• Partnerships drive UCOR workplace recruitment and retention (Tommy Morgan, UCOR)
• Siemens' training initiative in developing modelling skills for chemical engineering graduates (Udit Gupta, Siemens)
• Bridge to bio: Workforce development in biopharmaceutical manufacturing (George Prpich, University of Virginia)

15:30 to 18:00  – Leadership and management of sustainable solutions in industry (Bayhill 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• Reducing methane emissions and creating value from stranded associated gas (Paul Yelvington, M2X Energy Inc.)
• Sustainability in capital investments (James Fisher, Amgen)
• Transforming catalysts: Chemicals, e-fuels, and the second ammonia revolution (Aruna Ramkhrishnan, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering)
• 3M sustainability - Applying science and technology to improve lives (Derek Dehm, 3M)
• Applying science and technology to improve lives and reach climate objectives (Jason McMullan, ExxonMobil)

18:00 to 21:00 – Dinner (ticketed): Management (MGMT), Environmental (ENV), and Chemical Engineering & the Law (ChE&L), Cuba Libre, Santa Isabel Room (9101 International Drive, Orlando, Florida 32819; +1.407.226.1600)

Tuesday, November 7, 2023

8:00 to 10:30 – Non-traditional career opportunities in chemical engineering for MBA's, legal practitioners, and PhD's (Bayhill 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• From chemical engineering to intellectual property law (Paul Townsend, Finnegan, Henderson, Faragow, Garrett & Dunner, LL)
• From a PhD in ChemE to science policy and a government career (Ashley Pennington, Stakeholder Engagement, Cybersecutity and Infrastructure Security Agency)
• The lifeline of chemical researcher in a business environment (Emilio Nehme, Universidad Catolica San Antonio de Murcia)
• A career in management for a PhD chemical engineering generalist (Joseph Cramer, AIChE)
• General Q&A for all speakers

11:00 to 12:00 – Management Division (MGMT) Board meeting (Location to be announced). Open meeting to all volunteers.

12:30 to 15:00 – Management Award: Leading and persevering through failure (Bayhill 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• Presentation of 2023 Management Award to Shawn Feist of Dow Chemical (Mark Swientoniewski, Strata-G, LLC)
• Beyond the technology: All the stuff I wish I would have known sooner (Shawn D. Feist, The Dow Chemical Company)
• Failure: A catalyst for success (Daniel Hickman, Dow)
• Letting go of your dreams: Managing your emotions and the realities of pivoting or shutting down your startup (Nemoy Rau, DentComp Inc.)
• Don't you dare settle for fine: Cracking the code of how dual-career couples thrive in work and life (Rebekah K. Feist, Dow)
• Q&A for all presenters  

15:30 to 17:30 – Young Leader Award: Connecting innovation and sustainability for positive impacts and value creation (Bayhill 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• Presentation of 2023 Young Leader Award to Dr. Ran Xu of DuPont (Mark Swientoniewski, Strata-G, LLC)
• Putting inclusive culture and core values at the heart of innovation, sustainability and digital (Ran Xu, DuPont)
• Leading sustainability in dynamic times to have a positive impact, create value and engage customers, stakeholders and employees (Scott Collick, DuPont)
• Challenges in scaling biomass-based chemical processes (Keith Hutchenson, Covation Biomaterials)
• Q&A involving all speakers and audience

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

12:30 to 15:00 – Entrepreneurial mindset and chemical engineering (Bayhill 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• Introduction: What are the 3 C's?
• Entrepreneurially-minded learning, making, and value creation in chemical engineering (Margot Vigeant, Bucknell University)
• Using an entrepreneurial mindset to construct a winning Chem-E-Car (Kevin Fruth, Cenovus Energy)
• Entrepreneurally minded learning in the chemical engineering unit operations laboratory (Erick S. Vasquez, University of Dayton)
• Steal this activity! Finding ways to incorporate entrepreneurial mindset in the classroom using Keen Cards (Kristine Horvat, University of New Haven)
• Students creating engineering problems merging real-world contexts and online videos (Matthew Liberatore, University of Toledo)
• Embracing the entrepreneurial mindset: Transforming academic research into tech start-ups (Chelsea Monty-Bromer, MIC Monitor, LLC)
• Supporting entrepreneurial mindset (EM) faculty development: Building faculty EM inside and outside in the classroom (Cheryl A. Bodnar, Rowan University)
• Panel discussion

15:30 to 18:00 – Innovation and entreprenuership in chemical engineering (Bayhil 17, Lobby level, Hyatt Regency Orlando)

• Fueling the energy transition - Lessons learned from a renewable energy startup (Derek Vardon, Alder Fuels)
• Scale-up of Purecycle purification process (Michael Weber, PureCycle Technologies)
• Trials and tribulations in entrepreneurship for a chemical engineer (Andrew Jones, Carba)
• Gambling on innovation with learning (Darrell Velegol, Penn State University)
• Our journey in commercialising scalable, economical and sustainable porous-silicon for Li-ion battery anodes (Siddharth Patwardhan, Sheffield University)