Examination of the education of ChE PhD students, including sources of students, sources of research support, research priorities, graduate education curricula, PhD graduate placement (employment), expectations of industrial employers, prospects for innovation and job creation, and suggestions for improvement of the education of PhD chemical engineers.
This session is co-sponsored by the Council of AIChE Fellows, Council for Chemical Research (CCR), and AIChE.
Panelists include:
- Phil Westmoreland, Professor, North Carolina State University
- Pramod Khargonekar, Assistant Director, Directorate for Engineering, National Science Foundation
- Joe Helble, Dean, College of Engineering, Dartmouth
- Gayle Gibson, Director, Engineering, DuPont
Chairs:
- Jim Hill, Iowa State University
- Jennifer Sinclair-Curtis, University of Florida