HELP CELEBRATE
I&EC's 100th YEAR!
We were the first Division organized in the ACS, back in 1908, and our
100th birthday is coming up. We are planning special events at the 2008
meetings in both New Orleans and Philadelphia. I&EC needs your help in our
centennial celebration projects.
Here's the
situation:
A small group of us has laid out some ambitious plans for the centennial.
These plans include receptions for both the New Orleans meeting and the
Philadelphia meeting, relevant symposia at both meetings, and a promotional
campaign to educate people about, and call attention to, this significant
milestone in both our history and the Society's history. ACS headquarters and
the Chemical Heritage Foundation, among others, are now aware of the I&EC
Centennial and are beginning to help us along. We expect to get major support
also from the industries that I&EC has served so ably in the past 100
years.
The
centennial is a great chance for you to get involved in ACS service and
leadership. Our FIRST need is for volunteers to serve on a centennial
organizing committee. There are opportunities to help organize
symposia, develop promotional materials, speak to companies, and in general
interact with divisional leadership and ACS Headquarters!
Another big
idea is to develop an “I&EC Centennial Book“ with chapters examining the
major developments of the past century in industrial and engineering chemistry,
and the future trends on the horizon in these areas.
The SECOND need is for a variety of help with this book! Can you: identify potential authors for
the book, review a book chapter, organize or contribute to a symposium on
sessions covering related groups of topics under the general title of
"I&EC Centennial: Gateway to the Future,"or help work on publicizing
all these events? If you can help with any of these activities, then I&EC Needs You!
To help you decide, here is a list of technical topics in which I&EC
Members have played a pivotal role over the years. Perhaps this list, and the
company names, will stimulate your thinking:
Air
separation – Air Products? Praxair?
Ammonia
synthesis
Ammoxidation
– BP?
Cracking
Catalysts – Davison?
Diffusion
separations – ORNL?
Epoxidation
– Dow (UCC)?
Fluid
Catalytic Cracking process – ExxonMobil?
Fuel Cells
Green Chemistry
and Engineering
Hydroformylation
(OXO) – Dow (UCC)?
Metallocene
Polymerization – Exxon?
Molecular
Sieves – UOP?, ExxonMobil?
Nafion
membranes (chlor-alkali, fuel cells) – DuPont?
Oral
Contraceptives
Polyamides
– DuPont?
Polyesters
– DuPont?
Polyethylene
– Dow?, ConocoPhillips?
Reforming –
UOP?
Silicones –
GE?
Sorbex-type
separations – UOP?
Superconductivity
– IBM?, DuPont?, ORNL?
Teflon –
DuPont?
Thermosets
(Bakelite) – Dow (UCC)?
Wacker
Process & homogeneous catalysis – Monsanto?
Ziegler-Natta
Polymerization
We can't do something this big without a lot of help, so please join us and work with us. Anything you can do
or anybody you can suggest will make a difference.
To
volunteer, contact Bill Flank or one of the other I&EC past, present, or future
chairs:
Rick
Sachleben, Chair (Solvias. Sachleben.Richard@solvias.com)
Denny
Hjeresen, past-Chair (Los Alamos National Laboratory. dlh@lanl.gov)
Mike
Matthews, Chair-elect (University of South Carolina. matthews@engr.sc.edu)
All interested parties are invited to attend an open
meeting to discuss plans for our Centennial Celebration in 2008. Please join us at the Divisional Business
Meeting session scheduled for Sunday, September 10 from 1:00 to 2:00 pm
in
Submitted
by
Dr. William H. Flank, Professor, Chemistry & Environmental Science, Pace
University, Pleasantville, NY 10570, wflank@pace.edu.
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Candidates I&EC for Election, Fall
2006
I&EC Chair Elect
Candidate Statements—Postcards for voting to be mailed soon
Brian Blakey
It is a sincere honor to be asked to run for Chair
Elect for the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division of ACS. The
Division provides many important services to its membership, and, arguably, the
two most important services are the organization of high caliber technical
symposia and the support of outreach programs for students. As Chair I will
focus the Division's resources squarely on these endeavors.
I will canvas the membership to determine which
subjects interest most, and will take the measures necessary to ensure that
theses subjects are reflected in the very best invited speaker and open speaker
symposia. Successful programs aimed at students, which encourage the best and
brightest to become leaders in our field, will continue to be fully supported,
such as special poster sessions, meet-and-greets and student awards. I also
pledge to create stronger ties with our natural friends at AIChE by increasing
the number of jointly held ACS-AIChE symposia, and will continue to push for
cross-ACS-AIChE membership, so that membership in one allows ready access to
the technical offerings of the other. Finally, like you, I recognize that
industrial and engineering endeavors are an increasingly global affair. Thus I
will propose that the Division forge stronger ties with our counterparts in
different countries by using our invited speaker symposia, and advocate for
cross-boarder membership recognition with ACS-like groups in key countries.
Furthermore, I will propose new positions on the Division's executive
committee: international I&EC members-at-large, who's role will be to
promote membership in the Division in strategic regions of the globe.
I hope you will find my background qualifies me to
represent your interests. I am Past Chair, Green Chemistry and Engineering
Subdivision of I&EC. Last year as Chair I organized the joint “AIChE-ACS
Symposium on Sustainability” – a Presidential Event at the ACS meeting in
My technical background encompasses chemical and
particle process design and operations. I have 11 peer-reviewed publications,
two pending patents and two issued patents relating to process design, process
chemistry, rheology, heat transfer and process control. I have a Ph.D. in
Chemical Engineering from the
Gregg J. Lumetta
Greetings fellow members of theI&EC Division:
I thank the Division for the opportunity to run for
Chair. I have been a member of the ACS for 24 years and a member of the
I&EC Division for 12 years. Since becoming a member of the I&EC
Division, I have been involved in the Division governance through various roles
in the Separation Science and Technology Subdivision. These have included
serving as membership chair, treasure, and chair of the SS&T Subdivision. I
believe that the I&EC Division is unique within the ACS is that it offers a
forum for dialog, sharing of information, and collaboration between researchers
working in academia, government laboratories, and industry. The disciplines
represented by the Division membership is also diverse including inorganic,
organic, analytical, environmental, and nuclear and radiochemists. The Division
serves both chemists and engineers, again a unique home for such collaboration
within the ACS.
Technical programming is one of the key benefits that
the Division offers its members. The programming sponsored by the Division in
recent years has reflected the breadth of the interests of the Divisions
membership, and we should strive to continue this trend. However, industrial participation
in our programming has been less than optimal. This is presumably due to tight
travel budgets imposed upon industrial researchers. Unfortunately, budget
constraints are beginning to effect researchers from other organizations as
well. To fully serve as much of the Division membership as possible, I believe
we must become more innovative and explore alternative modes of providing
technical programming. The Division should seriously consider taking advantage
of modern information technology to enable broader participation in our
programming. For example, it should be possible to produce “virtual symposia”
or forums using web technology. This would allow researchers to participate
without having to incur the expense of traveling to the national ACS meetings.
There are surely other innovative approaches that could be explored, and I
would certainly be interested to here ideas from the membership with respect to
this subject.
Education: BS in Chemistry, University of
Candidate for Secretary
Bill Crooks, current I&EC Secretary
Candidate for Councilor
Martin Abraham, current I&EC Councilor
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From the Councilor—Spiro D. Alexandratos, Councilor
2005- 2007
The IEC Division is the division which brings together
those of us interested in applied chemistry and chemical engineering. Our subdivisions make these broad categories more
manageable and allow for closer personal contacts among members. The subdivisions are a great success in this
regard and in setting the tone for the great programming presented by the
Division. Programming of timely symposia
is one way that we have to display the outstanding work being done by the
membership (and others who could be members since, of course, membership in any
division is not a prerequisite for participating in its symposia). Beginning in 2007, we will have a second
mechanism for recognizing the outstanding work of our members: The IEC
Executive Committee approved at the Atlanta ACS meeting an annual "IEC
Division Fellow" award to a chemist and chemical engineer. The awardees will be honored at the Spring
national meeting by the Division and symposia in their honor will be organized. Each member of the Division was notified of
this by e-mail in mid-June and you are encouraged to get involved in the
nominating process. (If you are a member
and were not notified, then there is something wrong with our contact information
for you - please contact our Division secretary so this can be straightened
out.) With so much important work being
done by Division members, there should be no shortage of nominees and the
nominating process is straightforward. I
have reproduced the criteria below - please nominate your colleagues.
(1) A chemist and an engineer will be named annually
as IEC Division Fellows based on innovative contributions to the areas in which
they have published
(2) The areas are ones to which both chemists and
engineers contribute.
(3) Chemists / engineers can be from academic,
industrial, or government laboratories.
(4) Patents are to be given equal weight to papers in
the open literature.
(5) The nominator is to submit to the IEC Awards Comm
a nominating letter detailing how the work of the nominee complements the work
of chemists (if the nominee is an engineer) or complements the work of
engineers (if the nominee is a chemist).
If the work fits into one of the subdivisions of the Division, the
nominator should illustrate this. Also
to be submitted is a CV and up to five relevant publications / patents.
The award is to consist of a plaque naming the awardee
a Fellow of the IEC Division, registration to the Spring meeting at which the
award will be presented, complimentary one-year membership in the Division, and
a $750 travel award to be used by the awardee; if all of the funds are not
expended by the nominee, he or she may use to help defray the cost of
attendance of a colleague to the national meeting.
A half-day symposium is to be organized for each
awardee by someone chosen by the awardee.
Nominations may be made by all members of the Division
for submission to the Awards Committee (Spiro Alexandratos, Martin Abraham,
Michael Gonzalez, and Denny Hjeresen).
The deadline is 15 August 2006. Please send nominations to Spiro
Alexandratos (alexsd@hunter.cuny.edu) and he will forward them to the other
members of the committee. The awardees
will be announced in the Fall newsletter, and the award presentation made at
the Spring meeting. (Note added in proof: since the Newsletter is issuing
August 25, if you still wish to nominate someone, please let me know by the
morning of the 28th since the Awards Committee plans to reach a decision by the
end of August.)
There is more great news from our having been awarded
a grant from the ACS Innovative Projects Fund for Divisional Enhancement. A full report to you will follow in the next
newsletter. The point of all this is to
recognize the work being done by members of this outstanding division. This is your Division. Your ideas on how we can all be involved in
the life of the Division are welcomed.
Please contact me or any of your councilors to get the ball rolling. Have a great summer - and don't forget to
take some days to enjoy the beach, the mountains, the national parks, or
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Novel
Chemistry with Industrial Applications (NCIA) Subdivision
Joseph R. Zoeller
At the Spring 2006 Meeting in
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Ionic
Liquids: Not Just solvents Anymore
(cosponsored with SS&T and Green Chemistry Sub-divisions)
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Diagnostics
in Detection of Biological and Chemical Warfare Agents and Food Safety
(Co-sponsor: Analytical Chemistry)
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Assuring
Water Purity (Held in Analytical Division. Co-sponsored by Novel Chemistry with
Industrial Applications)
We appreciate the effort put forth by the
organizers of these symposia. As for the Fall 2006 meeting in
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Process
Intensification
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Industrial Applications of In-line Spectroscopic
Monitoring and Control
·
Computational
Material Design in the Chemical Industry
Further, we expect to be putting on a
symposium, Chemistry in the Electronics Industry in the Spring of 2007.
As can be seen from
the diversity of topics, the Novel Chemistry with Industrial Applications
subdivision strives to provide a forum for the wide variety of chemical
technologies actually practiced in industrial and government environments. This
is consistent with our mission to:
“Provide a forum for the
dissemination of novel and interdisciplinary chemistry directed toward
industrial applications in traditional and non-traditional chemistry related
industries.”
While the
subdivision shares the traditional role of the I&EC to publicize chemistry
and engineering leading to cheaper, cleaner, and less energy intensive
production methods, the sub-division is unique in that it also seeks to promote
the discussion of:
a)
Chemistry
in industries not traditionally considered a purely chemical enterprise, such
as electronics, transportation, security, communications, defense, nutrition,
and diagnostics.
b)
Chemistry
imbedded in multidisciplinary research efforts and industries, such as
biotechnology, nanotechnology, electronics, and diagnostic devices.
Chemistry in these arenas is rapidly evolving, but since they cross
traditional disciplines and are often in non-traditional chemical industries,
they often lack a good home elsewhere in ACS.
To date, the
Novel Chemistry with Industrial Applications subdivision has been successful at
generating an interesting slate of programs for the division. Your input
regarding suggested topics and possibly organizers is not only welcome, but
critical, to further diversifying the program and getting topics of interest to
you on the program. If you have suggestions, simply contact the sub-division chair, Joe Zoeller, by email
at jzoeller@eastman.com, or if you
prefer, by phone at 1-423-229-5684
Invitation to Join the Novel Chemistry with
Industrial Applications Sub-Division:
If you feel the Novel chemistry with Industrial
Applications subdivision is a worthy endeavor on the part of the Industrial and
Engineering Chemistry Division, we would like to hear form you and have you
join the subdivision. There is no
additional cost. Simply contact the sub-division chair, Joe Zoeller, by email
at jzoeller@eastman.com, or if you prefer, by mail at Eastman
Chemical Co., P.O. Box 1972, Kingsport, TN 37662-5150 or phone at
1-423-229-5684 to join the sub-division or to get additional information.
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Calls for Papers
Future symposia of interest to
SS&T members
Spring
2007,
Calixarenes: State of the Art and
Perspectives. Lætitia H. Delmau, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory Phone: 865-576-2093, delmaulh@ornl.gov. Dean R. Peterman,
ACS-AIChE Symposium on Applied
Chemistry and Engineering. Spiro Alexandratos,
Department of Chemistry, Hunter
College City University of NY, alexsd@hunter.cuny.edu. And Bill Koros.
Free
Beer for SS&T Members!
SS&T Subdivision Social – The SS&T Subdivision is hosting a social
event at the
SS&T Chair’s Statement
by Ben
Hay
I would like to thank the SS&T
Subdivision Programming Committee for putting together an impressive group of
technical sessions for the upcoming meetings.
At the fall 2006 ACS meeting in
Creating quality programming at the national
ACS meetings is the primary focus for the Subdivision officers. We are always seeking ideas for technical
session topics and potential symposium organizers. If you are interested,
please contact any member of the Executive Committee. Remember, it is through the voluntary efforts
of its members that the SS&T subdivision continues to provide excellent
programming at the spring and fall National Meetings of the ACS. We value your input and encourage you to
become involved with the process.
To help stimulate this involvement, we have
organized an SS&T Subdivision Social to take place at the
Being an officer in the SS&T Subdivision
over the past three years has been an interesting and rewarding
experience. It has been my pleasure to
work with all the current and past officers and members of the Executive
Committee. I would like to thank all of
them for the enthusiasm and concern that they express for the Subdivision. Special thanks goes to my immediate
predecessor Gregg Lumetta for his advice and guidance, our hardworking
treasurer Laetitia Delmau for keeping us within budget and on schedule, and our
new secretary Tatiana Levitskaia for compiling and mailing this year’s
newsletters.
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Presidential Event: Equipping the 2015 Chemical Technology Workforce
What is the easiest way to save $16,000 per employee in hiring costs? Hire qualified employees. Companies have reported saving as much as $16,000 per employee by hiring graduates of programs specifically designed for an industrial career. These savings came from reduced on-the-job training costs, improved safety records, and increased employee retention..[1]
There are over 440,000 technicians employed in the
With these savings in mind, I&EC members are encouraged
to join the Division of Chemical Technician (TECH) at the ACS Fall 2006
National Meeting in
Equipping the 2015 Chemical
Technology Workforce is a collaborative ACS initiative. It will kick off with a
day-long Presidential Event on
Participants and ACS members are encouraged to develop local programs based on information from the symposium and local resources. If desired, a mentor from TECH or the Committee on Technician Affairs (CTA) can be designated for consultation in developing programs.
I&EC members are encouraged to participate in any of the following ways:
· Attending the symposium and engaging in the discussions
· Supporting technicians who wish to attend
· Encouraging people who do not frequent technician-associated programming to attend the symposium
· Supporting the creation of local programs based on the symposium
· Interacting with ACS local sections and local chemical technology programs to support technician development.
To get more information, suggest a discussion point, or
request a mentor, contact Lisa Dillard (TECH program chair, 423-229-5430,
ldillard@eastman.com) or
Funding and
Sponsorship
The event is largely funded by a grant from the Committee on Corporation Associates (CA), with support from its member companies. A complete list of member companies can be found at www.chemistry.org/industry/ca. Additional funding is provided by the Office of the ACS President, TECH, CTA, CEN-ChemJobs, and ChemTechLinks.
The Equipping the 2015 Chemical Technology Workforce symposium is sponsored by TECH and co-sponsored by CTA, CA, the Office of the ACS President, the Division of Chemical Education, Division of Business Development and Management, the Division of Professional Relations, the Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry, the Society Committee on Education, the Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs, and the Committee on Science.
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