Celebrating the Life and Achievements of H. Scott Fogler

This session honors the life and contributions of Dr. H. Scott Fogler, the Vennema Professor of Chemical Engineering and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan, who died on August 21, 2021, at age 81. A Fellow of AIChE, Fogler served as the Institute’s president in 2009.

This session will be chaired by June Wispelwey, Executive Director and CEO, AIChE, and Sharon C. Glotzer, Anthony C. Lembke Department Chair of Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan.

Among his many important scientifc contributions over the course of his career, Fogler’s contributions to AIChE spanned more than fifty years — with many of his contributions emphasizing the education of current and next-generation engineers. As a chair of the Education programming group, he established an AIChE Symposium Series on chemical engineering education. He also served on AIChE’s ABET Accreditation Committee, the Publications Committee, and the Chemical Engineering Technology Operating Council (CTOC). 

As AIChE’s president-elect in 2008, Fogler launched the ChemE on Demand learning program, and set the groundwork of the AIChE Academy. As president in 2009, he founded AIChE’s International Sister Student Chapters Program — which stimulated the creation of more than 100 new AIChE student chapters outside North America.

While serving on the AIChE Board of Directors in the 1990s, Fogler proposed the idea for an undergraduate student chapter competition that would demonstrate chemical engineering principles to the general public. That idea evolved into the AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition®. The competition has become a centerpiece of AIChE’s student conferences, including competitions held internationally. To honor Fogler, the AIChE Foundation endowed First Prize in the Annual Student Conference’s Chem-E-Car Competition in his name.