Past Events
Wednesday, May 13, 2009: AIChE Local Meeting Food Safety by Alfredo C. Rodriguez, Director of engineering at the National Center for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) in Summit-Argo, IL. The meeting will be held at Cantigny Park, Le Jardin Room, 1S151 Winfield Road, Wheaton, IL 60189. Elections will be held at this meeting. For the proposed slate and how to submit an absentee ballot, see the May 2009 sewsletter. Register Now
Nominate your company for the AIChE National Corporate Innovation Award.
This award recognizes a corporation employing a significant number of chemical engineers for innovation in: Research and development; Development of new technologies; and Technology transfer or bringing new products to the marketplace. The deadline to submit a nomination has been extended to June 1.The Detroit section of AIChE invites you to attend 2009 Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics Conference May 19-20 2009 at Wayne State University. Invited talks are "Minimizing Environmental Impacts of Coal-based Energy Generation" by Dr. Jennifer Wilcox, Energy Resources Engineering, Stanford University and "Nanostructure Inorganic-Organic Hybrids; A New Class of Porous Materials" by Krista S. Walton, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University.
EPA is announcing the release of the final report, Assessment of the Impacts of Global Change on Regional U.S. Air Quality: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Ground-Level Ozone (An Interim Report of the U.S. EPA Global Change Research Program), prepared by the Global Change Research Program Staff in the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) of the Office of Research and Development (ORD) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Wednesday April 15, 2009: AIChE Local Meeting and Poster Competition: Structural Health Monitoring Doctor's Orders by Jan D. Achenbach, Center for Quality Engineering and Failure Prevention, Northwestern University. The meeting will be held at Pancoe–Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Life Sciences Pavilion - 212, 2200 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus 60208.
Call for papers and posters for the tcbiomass 2009, the International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science, September 16 - 18, 2009 presented by GTI.
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Download posterWednesday, March 18, 2009: [AIChE Local Meeting] U.S. EPA Climate Change Initiatives Including the Combined Heat and Power Partnership at Room 331, Metcalfe Federal Building, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Il 60604. Registration 6:15 p.m. Program begins 6:45 p.m, followed by networking and pizza.
Download presentationCongratulations to Ralph A. Leonard of Argonne National Laboratory for winning the 2008 Robert E. Wilson award, presented by the AIChE Nuclear Engineering Division. Read more at the AIChE NED division.
The Detroit section of AIChE invites you to attend WSU Student Engineering Societies Annual “Green Technology Symposium” on Friday, April 3, 2009 at Wayne State University. The topic is The World’s Energy and Environmental Challenges and will be presented by John Chen; Past President, AIChE; Professor and Dean Emeritus, Lehigh University.
Nominations for the Thiele Award are due March 30, 2009. Click here to learn more or here to view past recipients.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009: AIChE Local Meeting at COSTAS, 1 S 130 Summit Ave, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181, from 5:00 to 9 pm. Paul DiLallo, Rob Derus, Isidro de la Fuente and Michael E. Shepherd will speak at the pre-dinner and general meeting on GE's advanced nuclear reactor overview and GE water treating for power and refinery boiler applications.
Thursday, January 22, 2009: AIChE and ACS Chicago Joint Meeting at European Crystal Banquet & Conference Center, 519 W Algonquin Rd, Arlington Heights, IL 60005, from 5:30-9 pm. William Roe, President and CEO of Coskata, Inc., will speak on Technology of Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Fuel (Ethanol).
Wednesday, December 17, 2008: AIChE Holiday Wine Tasting sponsored by the Young Professionals Advisory Board at In Fine Spirits, 5418 N. Clark, Chicago, from 7-10 pm.
Price is $25/person accepted at the event. RSVP by December 14 to Jessica Swary at jessicaswary@msn.com. Download DetailsWednesday, November 19, 2008: Local Section Meeting at Reza’s Restaurant, 432 W. Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60654, from 5:30-9 pm. John Greczek, PhD, OSHA Region 5 Process Safety Manager (PSM) Coordinator, will speak on The New OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM) "National Emphasis Program" (NEP).
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Download PosterA group of young engineers at UOP volunteered to represent our section at the Chicago ACS Chemistry Day at Loyola University on Saturday, October 25. Chemistry Day is an annual event hosted by the American Chemical Society for high school and middle school students to have fun with chemistry. Read more and see photos. Our next display booth will be set up for Engineers Week in February. Contact Alan Zagoria at alan.zagoria@uop.com to participate.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008: Local Section Meeting at the Greek Islands, 300 East 22nd Street, Lombard, IL, from 5:30-9 pm. Musharraf Ali of Abbott Laboratories will speak on Energy Management & CO2 footprint At Global Pharmaceutical Operation.
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Download PosterCongratulations to Dr. Robert W. Lyczkowski, the winner of the 2008 Thiele Award. The award will be presented at the September Local Section Meeting.
Monday, September 22, 2008: Local Section Meeting at the University of Illinios at Chicago (UIC) Student Center East, 5:30-9 pm. Prof. Al Sacco of Northestern University spoke on Performing Science in Low Earth Orbit: What is it like, what has been learned and what is the potential.
See abstracts and presentations from the 2008 Regional Meeting and symposium
Congratulations to Annette Johnston on being elected to the grade of Fellow by AIChE National. Her contributions to the local section are greatly appreciated.
See the latest issue of Food Technology to view an article from J. Peter Clark on "Variety, Novelty Characterize Processing and Nonthermal Papers". Peter is an active member of AIChE Chicago, including voluteering with the local symposiums.
View a presentation on Fuel Cell Systems by Donald Chmielewski, AIChE Chicago past chair and professor at IIT. This presentation is available at the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division of AIChE.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008: May Local Section Meeting: Local Section Meeting and Elections at the European Crystal Banquets in Arlington Heights, IL. Dr. Peter J. Schubert will speak on How Moon Rocks Might Save the Earth.
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Download PresentationMonday, April 28, 2008: April Local Section Meeting: Student poster competition at IIT, HUB Building. Student Poster Competition and Mini Job Fair 4-6 pm, Dinner and Presentation 6-9 pm. Speaker: Scott Fogler, University of Michigan, AIChE President Elect and authur of "Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering" (also known as the yellow book http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/).
Download Meeting DetailsNew Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008: Celebrate AIChE's 100th Anniversary. A dinner and presentation, "Understanding the Politics of Biofuels," will will be held at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk, 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL. Download Meeting Notice for Posting
Download Answers from the Meeting's Energy QuizNational Engineers Week: Five AIChE members represented our profession to hundreds of children at the National Engineers Week celebration at IIT Wheaton on February 23. Our volunteers, led by Steve Schade, included Shannon Brown, Nelida Flores, Tom King, and Jessica Swary. The presentation focused on chemistry in the kitchen. We showed how baking and cooking are examples of such principles as kinetics and heat transfer. More than 200 students stopped at our table to talk and get free plastic eggs with Silly Putty inside.
February 20, 2008: February Local Section Meeting: "Fluorescent Tagged Polymers Used in Industrial Water systems" by Walter Schaefer, Industry Technical Consultant, Nalco Company. The dinner and presentation will be held at the Holiday Inn Select, 1801 N Naper Blvd, Naperville, IL. Download flyer
Congratulations to Kevin Taylor on receiving a IEEE-USA Professional Achievement Award. Kevin is a member of Detroit Section AIChE and Energy Co-Chair for the 2007 Chicago AIChE Symposium.
The Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (F&PD) of AIChE is posting a series of refinery histories in honor of AIChE's centennial. Check them out at the F&PD website.
January 24, 2008: "Biofuels: Unlocking the Potential" by Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, Director of Renewable Energy and Chemicals Business at UOP. The dinner and presentation was held at the European Crystal Banquet Center, 519 W. Algonquin Road, Arlington Heights, IL. Download presentation
November 14, 2007: "Getting More with Less: Alon Big Spring Refinery ULSD Project" by Larry Kraus, Team Leader, Clean Fuels, Projects, & Strategic Accounts, Criterion Catalysts & Technologies, Houston, Texas. The dinner and presentation was held at Wellington of Arlington, 2121 S. Arlington Heights Road, Arlington Heights, IL 60005.
Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Perl on his recent election to the rank of AIChE Fellow. Read announcement
Read about the AIChE Outreach event at the ACS Chemistry Day on October 20
October 10, 2007: October Local Section Meeting: Tour of the CITGO Lemont Refinery followed by dinner and a technical presentation on Gasoline Blending Technology by Pat Rumchak and John Gobert. The dinner and presentation will be held at the Public Landing Restaurant, 200 W. 8th Street Lockport, IL 60441.