1. Going Behind the Acronym: What is AICHE? AICHE Brownbag Tuesday, September 2, 2014

2. AICHE American Institute of Chemical Engineers Approximately 40,000 members in 90 countries. Members from academia and industry. Resources available for all chemical engineers. http://www.aiche.org

3. Membership in AICHE Being in ChE in Lafayette makes you an automatic member in the student chapter. From industrial donations, membership in the national chapter is free for all ChE undergrads. Apply at (form is one page): http://www.aiche.org/community/students/stud ent-membership http://www.aiche.org/community/students/stud ent-membership

4. What Does Membership Get You? Scholarship opportunities Additional outlets for your future – Internships (CareerEngineer) – Information about graduate school – Job postings (Note: Aimed at all chemical engineers) – Online mentorship program – Online career fair: http://www.aiche.org/resources/careers/career-fairs http://www.aiche.org/resources/careers/career-fairs

5. Intellectual Development: Webinars Over the past few years, AICHE has begun to develop a library of webinars for a wide range of topics. (http://www.aiche.org/resources/chemeondemand)http://www.aiche.org/resources/chemeondemand – Student and Young Professional Development – Chemical Engineering Practice – Sustainability & Environment As students, you get unlimited access to basically all of them.

6. Sample Webinar Titles Biofuels: Metrics and Challenges The Secret Science of Movie Stunts and Special Effects History of NO x in the Ethylene Industry Fatal Exposure: Tragedy at DuPont Tapping into the Chemistry of Beer and Brewing How to Get a Job in a Small Company

7. A Few Other Opportunities ChEnected (AICHE meets social media) http://chenected.aiche.org/ http://chenected.aiche.org/ eLibrary (technical handbooks and databases) http://www.aiche.org/resources/el ibrary http://www.aiche.org/resources/el ibrary Certificate of Safety Achievement (can be done via online courses)

8. Conferences Professional organization hold national professional meetings – Presentation of new ideas – Networking Of interest to you – National Student Conference (Nov 14-17) in Atlanta, GA – Regional Student Conference (TBD late March/April) at Manhattan College

9. Today’s Brownbag Introduction to the ChBE professors What does the Lafayette student chapter do? Slides will be available on Lafayette chapter AICHE sites (sites.lafayette.edu/aiche)

10. James K. Ferri James T. Marcus ‘50 Professor and Head ferrij@lafayette.edu AEC 217B B.S. Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University PhD., Chemical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Research: Stability in disperse systems, manufacturing and materials processing in microgravity, nanocompositesand bioactive thin film mechanics Max Planck Institute of Colloids & Interfaces, Germany

11. Lauren S. Anderson Assistant Professor andersol@lafayette.edu AEC 262 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Lafayette College Ph.D. University of Virginia Research: Cell-material interactions for tissue engineering; drug delivery; polymer fabrication Chris Anderson Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Virginia Research: protein diagnostics, molecular imaging

12. Polly R. Piergiovanni Professor piergiop@lafayette.edu AEC 264 B.S. Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, University of Houston Courses Taught: ES 101 Introduction to Engineering VaST 145 Indigo CHE 211 Material & Energy Balances CHE 321 Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer CHE 324 Process Control Research: Biochemical engineering, Bio-based fuels, Dyeing kinetics, Engineering pedagogy

13. Javad Tavakoli Professor tavakoli@lafayette.edu AEC 229 Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology P.E., Pennsylvania Research: Renewable energy sources Catalysis Industrial wastewater treatment Hazardous waste treatment James P. Schaffer Professor schaffej@lafayette.edu AEC 217A Ph.D., Duke University B.S. Duke University Author: Texts in Materials Engineering and Fluid Mechanics Research Interests: Materials science

14. Michael Senra Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Michagan Research: tribology, energy processing Lindsay Soh Assistant Professor Ph.D., Yale University Research: sustainable energy, green technologies

15. Michael Clark Visiting Assistant Professor Ashley Cramer Visiting Instructor

16. AIChE: The Lafayette Perspective Co-Presidents: Ally Hill and Bonnie Malhotra Advisor: Michael Senra

17. Academic Guidance Course selection brownbag Study abroad brownbag Professor research talks – Excel research – What it is like to be a professor

18. ChE Lecture Series Include topics such as: – Information about Grad School – What industries ChE’s can enter – Internships – Resume workshop – Networking – And more!

19. Community Outreach Landis Center: Literacy Day

20. Other Events Liquid Nitrogen Demo Midnight Breakfast Student Faculty Interaction Night ChemE Cookoff

21. Other Events Air Products Plant Tour

22. Mentoring Program THIS Friday Matched with upperclassman 4:10-5:45 Gilbert’s (back room)