Nation's Premier Chemical Engineering Conference Will Be Held in San Francisco, Highlighting Energy, Emerging Technologies
Posted on: Monday, 6 November 2006, 09:00 CST
NEW YORK, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The nation's top chemical engineering conference, presented by the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), will be held from Nov. 12-17 at the San Francisco Hilton.
The focus of the conference will be on energy and the globalization and diversity of industries served by chemical engineers.
Summary of Events:
Chem-E-Car Competition: One of the most popular student events in which 31 university teams race shoebox-size cars powered by alternative fuels the teams must create.
Roundtable on the Future of Chemical Engineering: Featuring thought leaders including His Excellency Professor George Maxwell Richards, the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as Thamir Abbas Ghadhban, Advisor on Oil & Energy to the prime minister of Iraq, to highlight how the industry is sustaining and continuing to build.
U.S.-Japan Joint Topical Conference on Medical Engineering: Featuring four plenary lectures by the leading chemical/biomedical engineers in their field: Dr. A. Hoffman, K. Ishihara, Dr. E. Leonard and K. Tojo.
The Danckwerts Lecture: This year's recipient is Professor Doros N. Theodorou from the School of Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
The James E. Bailey Award Ceremony: Honoring Robert Langer, Edwin Lightfoot and Nicholas Peppas for their work in the field of transdermal drug delivery, biological mass-transfer and separations processes biomedical engineering.
The Institute Lecture: Carol K. Hall, Alcoa Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at North Carolina State University is a leading researcher in applied thermodynamics and molecular simulation. She will discuss Alzheimer's and other diseases.
Lecture on Changes in the Earth's Ecosystem: Navy Vice Admiral (ret.) Conrad C. Lautenbacher of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will talk about initiatives relating to monitoring and reporting on changes in the earth's ecosystem.
For more information on activities surrounding the AIChE Annual Meeting, please visit http://www.aiche.org/annual. Interviews with speakers or details on Chem-E-Car are available by calling Jeanette Krebs.
AIChE, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2008, is a professional society of more than 40,000 chemical engineers in 92 countries. Its members work in corporations, universities and government using their knowledge of chemical processes to develop safe and useful products for the benefit of society. More information about AIChE is available at http://www.aiche.org/.
Contact: Jeanette Krebs Phone: (717) 418-6106 Email: krebs@thebravogroup.com
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
CONTACT: Jeanette Krebs, +1-717-418-6106, or krebs@thebravogroup.com,for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Web Site: http://www.aiche.org/http://www.aiche.org/annual
Source: PRNewswire
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