Past Events: 2009-2010
December 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about recent and upcoming events.
View Presentation from the November 2010 AIChE Chicago Local Meeting
November 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about recent and upcoming events.
AIChE Local Meeting: November 9 at Costa's in Oakbrook Terrace, IL. Mark Leroux will present The Business Side of Advanced Process Control. This meeting is joint with ISA.
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Register hereOctober 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about recent and upcoming events.
AIChE Local Meeting: October 13 at Flatlander's Resturant and Brewery in Lincolnshire, IL. Urmila Diwekar will present A Systems Analysis Perspective of Green Design, Green Energy, and Sustainability.
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September 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about recent and upcoming events.
View Presentation from the September 2010 AIChE Chicago Local Meeting
AIChE Local Meeting: September 15 at Emmett's Brewing Company in Downers Grove, IL. Mark W. Lockhart, P.E. will present BACT to the Future... BACT for GHG's - Coming to a Refinery Near You Next January.
Special thanks to URS Corporation for supporting the students of AIChE Chicago! URS has pledged up to $500 to offset student attendance costs to the chapter. This support allows AIChE to continue low-cost admission to students, and to strengthen our support of student activities during the year.
August 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about recent and upcoming events.
View Presentation from the May 2010 AIChE Chicago Local Meeting
May 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about recent and upcoming events.* April 2010 Newsletter is posted: Download now to learn more about the April 14th meeting, the Chair's corner, upcoming events including those at local universities, etc.
AIChE Local Meeting: April 14th at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The meeting will include the annual student poster competition and a talk from Dr. Peter J. Clark on "Career Development in Industry: Some Lessons from a Food Engineer." Judges are needed for the student poster competition. Please contact Ellen.Kloppenborg@UOP.com if you are willing to assist.
Read more and/or register nowAIChE Chicago's own current co-secetary, Peter Herena, will be giving a talk on April 6 with ISA about the The Buncefield Incident, a December 5, 2005, fuel depot explosion. Download presentation
AIChE Local Meeting: March 10, 2010, at Plymouth Bar, Chicago Loop. The talk was preceded with a tour of the EPA lab; see pictures. The tour was followed by the talk "Update on Proposed and Approved ASTM Methods for Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry of Interest to US EPA." Download presentation
AIChE Local Meeting: February 9, 2010, at Costa's Restaurant - Oak Brook Terrace. Dr. Joseph Hupp will discuss "Nanostructured Materials for Molecular Hydrogen Storage."
AIChE Local Meeting in conjunction with ACS: January 21, 2010, at European Crystal Banquet Center, Arlington Heights See details on the ACS website
AIChE Local Meeting: November 10 at Hackney's Restaurant in Wheeling, IL 60090. Richard Parkinson will present Where Does it All Go? Plot Arrangement for a Modern Process Plant.
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Download presentationEPA roundtable in Chicago: Emerging Drivers for Cleantech is an EPA-University and Entrepreneur Roundtable to be held October 26, 2009, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Chicago. 77 West Jackson Boulevard, 12th floor, Lake Michigan Room, or via webinar. Register at http://www.clu-in.org/studio/cleantech2
AIChE Local Meeting: October 5 at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This meeting is in conjunction with the Chicago Midwest Regional AIChE Conference, and requires a separate registration, so individuals may choose to attend only the conference, only the Monday evening meeting, or both. Marcus Tennant of Yokogawa Corporation will present "Automation of Batch and Procedural Control Processes through Standards Based Design".
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2009 Chicago Midwest Regional AIChE Conference October 5th and 6th, 2009, at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL. The theme for this year's symposium is “Energy & Sustainability”.
Registertcbiomass 2009, the International Conference on Thermochemical Conversion Science, September 16 - 18, 2009 presented by GTI.
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Download posterAIChE Local Meeting: September 15 at Goose Island Brewpub in Chicago. There is a limited availability for a brewery tour at 5:00 pm and one at 6:00 pm. Technical talk at 8 pm on "Biorenewables Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals" by Jack Lewnard, the CTO of GTI (Gas technology Institute).
Download presenationArgonne National Laboratory Open House 2009, Argonne, IL, Saturday, August 29 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Nearly 100 engaging exhibits, demonstrations, tours and presentations are being planned for a day of fun and education for the entire family. Read more
Congratulations to Northwestern University Professor Chad Mirkin on winning the Lemelson-MIT award. Read more
Fermi National Accelerator Tour, Batavia, IL, Saturday, June 27 9:30a.m. to 12p.m. Engineers, non-engineers, adults and children (10+) are welcome to discover FermiLab in AIChE’s own private tour. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Limited space is available. Please RSVP to Jessica Swary at jessicaswary@msn.com by June 12.
YPAB Happy Hour, Thursday, May 28, 6-8 p.m. at the Molly Malones Irish Pub & Grill, 7652 Madison St., Forest Park, IL. Come for the company, stay for the drink specials and free Irish band session at 8 p.m.! Free private parking lot right next door. Also accessible from Metra or Blue Line. For more info, visit the website at: http://www.themollymalones.com/ Drinks and food will individually billed. RSVP to Jessica Swary at jessicaswary@msn.com by Wed. May 27.
Congratulations to Gavin Towler of UOP for winning the 2009 AIChE National “Practice Award.” Read more
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.
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Congratulations 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).