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This session will consist of 2016 MAC Eminent Engineers Award recipients (Guillermo A. Ameer and Lance R. Collins) and the Minority Affairs Committee's William W. Grimes Award for Excellence in Chemical Engineering (Gilda A. Barabino). The objective of the session will be to present to chemical engineering students and young professionals, strategies for achieving at the highest levels of engineering by the 2016 MAC eminent chemical engineers who are achievers in their profession.
Session Chairs:
- Emmanuel Dada, ChemProcess Technologies (CPT), LLC
- Thomas Mensah, UAV Systems and Nanotechnology Division, Georgia Aerospace Systems Manufacturing Inc.
- Cato Laurencin, University of Connecticut
Schedule:
TIME | PRESENTATION |
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM |
Welcoming Remarks |
12:40 PM - 1:10 PM |
Future Directions for Chemical Engineering: Shaping the Profession Gilda A. Barabino, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University |
1:10 PM - 1:40 PM |
Regenerative Engineering: A Convergence of Enabling Technologies Cato Laurencin, University of Connecticut |
1:40 PM - 2:10 PM |
Citrate-Based Macromolecules: A Versatile Biomaterial Platform for Regenerative Engineering Guillermo A. Ameer, Northwestern University |
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM |
Design for Manufacturing – a New Approach to Engineering Design Education Lance R. Collins, Cornell University |
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM |
Presentation of Awards, Greg Stephanopoulos |