Weekly meetings
This week's meeting
There is no meeting this week! Everyone go eat some turkey! (In other words: Happy Thanksgiving from Webmaster Nick & IIT AIChE)
IIT AIChE meets every Thursday, from 12:50 to 1:40, in Perlstein 108.
Upcoming speakers include:
- Dec. 4 - Andrea Bozzano from Renewables Development at UOP - "What UOP is doing in the area of renewables"
- More to be added soon!
Past Speakers
Fall 2007:
- August 30th - Prof. Don Chmielewski - IIT Study Abroad Program
- Sept 6th - IMI Cornelius Inc.
- Sept 13th - Richard Snow - "Chemical Engineering - From Lab Bench to Founding a Company"
- Sept 20th - Bob Anderson "Charting Your Carer Path"
- Sept 27th - Dr. George McConaghy - "Careers in Chemical Engineering"
- Oct. 4th - Ben Williams, Ajay Jayaprakash - Sargent & Lundy "I graduated, now what?
- Oct 11th - Shannon Ciston - Graduate Research at Northwestern "Biofilm Attachment Studies on Reactive Ceramic Ultrafiltration Membranes"
- Oct. 25th - Brian Kunzer - Cardinal Intellectual Property "The US Patent System: Importance, General Practice, and Current State Thereof"
- Nov. 8th - Jon Wietelmann - Cascade Controls
- Nov. 15th - Bipin Vora - Vora International Process Corp. "Energy Challenges of the 21st Century"
- Nov. 29th - Youngyou Hu - "Fuel Cell Tutorial"
Spring 2008:
- Feb 6th - Genevieve Damico - EPA - "Chemical Engineering at the EPA
- Feb 14th - Professors Cinar, Wasan, Zdunek, Schieber, and Ramani - Undergraduate Research Opportunities
- February 21st - Michael Mackaplow - Abbot
- February 28 - Emily Breckenridge - IIT Career Management Center; "Developing a Resume for Chemical Engineering"
- March 6 - Gavin Towler - UOP/AIChE Ambassador; "AIChE Ambassador Program 2008/Fuels and Petrochemicals Challenge"
- March 13 - Emily Breckenridge - IIT Career Management Center; Interview Skills
- March 27 - Perry Romanowski - Alberto Culver; "Being a Scientist in the Cosmetic and Personal Care Industry"
- April 3 - Tammy Lai - Nalco
- April 10 - David Pistrui - Directer of Entrepreneurship
- April 17 - Erin Sawardecker - Northwestern University (grad student): "RNA Folding and Conformational Networks."
- May 1 Prof. Alan Zdunek, IIT: "Chemical Engineering in the Semiconductor Industry"
Fall 2008 past speakers include:
- Sept. 4: Charles Guilfoyle (Jenn's Dad) from Sargent & Lundy - "What is a PE and how do I get one?"
- Sept. 11: Bob Anderson - "Chemical Engineering Students: What have you gotten yourself into?"
- Sept. 18 - Stafford Cuffe from American Science and Technology - "Overview of Alternative Energy Technologies and its Impact on the Demand for Engineers"
- Sept. 25 - Christopher Johnson from Argonne National Laboratory - "Invention and Development of Argonne Composite Oxide Cathodes for Lithium-Ion Batteries"
- Oct. 2 - Ray Cocco from Particulate Solid Research, Inc. - "Application and Design of Fluidized Bed Operations"
- Oct. 9 - Youngsun Kong, PhD candidate from IIT - "Emulsion Texture and Stability: Role of Surfactant Micellar Interactions in the Presence of Proteins"
- Oct. 23 - Ralph Sapko from Ambitech - "Career Tips Along the Road to Chemical Engineering"
- October 30 - Professor Chmielewski from IIT - Control Systems
- November 6 - Brian Gahan from Laser Rock Technologies LLC - "Drilling Rock with Lasers"
- November 13 - Daniel Meyer from MSED - Math and Science Education
- November 20 - IIT AICHE members who went to the 2008 National Conference - "What happened at the 2008 National Conference"
We are the Illinois Institute of Technology student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. We strive to promote Chemical Engineering and to provide opportunities to Chemical Engineering students.
To this end, we hold weekly meetings every Thursday in Perlstein Hall room 108 from 12:50 until 1:40. Our meetings consist of FREE PIZZA and a weekly speaker during our Spring and Fall Speaker Series, who comes in to talk to us about subjects of interest to Chemical Engineering students.