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Message from the Chair

So, what? With chemistry playing a more active and more important role in our lives and world than ever before, people in general, and even chemists tend to forget how important their activities really are. Our Division has three active subdivisions in areas of high profile concern to our world today. We are more active than ever in expanding both the knowledge and application of chemistry to practical problems. But in the midst of all of the activity, a majority of our members seem to be unaffected by the changes swirling around them.

So, what? The opportunities for chemists to work, explore, invent, and contribute have never been better. But at the same time, our name and activities are getting lost in the plethora of applications and sub-specialties that seem to lose the word "chemist". Your Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division is at the front of the wave publicizing the chemist's contribution to modern life, particularly in developing solutions to technical problems such as chemical processing and environmental concerns. Our unique Division best combines the interests and activities of government, industrial, and academic chemists and engineers into a synergistic effort.

So, what? Where are you, our members? Not everyone can attend National Meetings, although a growing number are participating in the subdivisions and symposia. But the Division offers more than formal meetings, and can offer more to assist you in your career and chemical interests. But, we need to hear from you. What are your interests? How can the Division bring value to your career through our Web presence, publications, Regional meetings, Newsletter, and National voice? You can help the Division to grow into the 21st century and retain the recognition of chemistry in the sea of applications by your participation. Visit the Web page, e-mail an officer or councilor, attend a meeting, and don't let the bonanza of chemical interest today turn into a "So, what?" in your career.

Steven Cooke, Chair

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Call for Papers
San Diego ACS National Meeting
April 1-5, 2001

Asphalt Science and Engineering. R. Kordal, Indiana University's Adv Res & Tech Inst (ARTI) Office of Technology Transfer, 1100 Waterway Boulevard, Suite 100, Indianapolis, IN 46202(317) 274-5906; FAX: (317) 274-5902, email: rkordal@indiana.edu; A.M. Usmani, UDC, 7318 Normandy Way, Indianapolis, IN 46278-1560, phone and FAX: (317) 879-8547, email: AMUsmani@aol.com

Biotechnology Information: Bioinformatics, Receptors, and Combinatorial Chemistry. Rhett Affleck, IRORI, 11149 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, (619) 546-1300; FAX: (619) 546-3083; email: Raffleck@irori.com; Aubrey Mendonca, ChemRx, 11149 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, (619) 546-1300, FAX: (619) 546-3083

Responsible Care. Nancy Jackson, Sandia National Laboratories, PO Box 5800, MS 1349, Albuquerque, NM 87185, (505) 272-7619, fax (505) 272-7336, e-mail: nbjacks@sandia.gov

General Poster Session. Andrew Bond, Argonne National Laboratory, Chemistry, Argonne, IL 60439, (630) 252-0957, fax (630) 252-7501, e-mail: ahbond@anl.gov

Nanotechnology in Catalysis, with Catalysis Secretariat. Bing Zhou, Hydrocarbon Technologies, Inc, 1501 New York Avenue, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, email: zhou@htinj.com, (609)394-3102 ext. 211, Fax: (609) 394-9602

I&EC Subdivision of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
For information regarding Nanotechnology symposia, contact Robert Haddon, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, 859 257-8844, haddon@pop.uky.edu

Functional Nanostructures. Lawrence R. Sita, University of Maryland, Chemistry and Biochemistry, College Park, MD 20742, (301) 405-5753, fax (301) 314-9121, e-mail: ls214@umail.umd.edu

Active Organic Materials. Howard E. Katz, Lucent Technologies

DoD Activities in Nanotechnology. Andrzej Miziolek, Army Research Laboratory

Organometallic Fullerenes. Chris A. Reed, University of California, Riverside

I&EC Subdivision Green Chemistry
Joe Breen Award Symposium. John Warner, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Dpeartment of Chemistry, Boston, MA 02125,(617) 287-6165, john.warner@umb.edu, Mary Kirchoff, AAAS Fellow, US EPA, 401 M Street, SW, Washington, DC 20460, (202) 260-3690, kirchoff.mary@epamail.epa.gov

Process Analytical Chemistry in Support of Green Chemistry, co-sponsored with the Environmental Division, for information contact Martin Abraham, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Toledo, (419) 530-8092.

Green (or Greener) Industrial Applications of Neoteric Solvents: Ionic and Supercritical Fluids. R.D. Rogers, POBox 870336, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487; (205) 348-4323, FAX: (205) 348-9104; email: RDRogers@bama.ua.edu; K.R. Seddon, School of Chemistry, Queens University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland

I&EC Subdivision of Separations Science and Technology
Fundamentals and Applications of Anion Separations. Bruce Moyer, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P. O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831; Ph. 423-574-6718; Fax 23-574-4939; email moyerba@ornl.gov; Raj P. Singh, Osram Sylvania, Chemical and Metallurgical Products Division, Hawes St., Towanda, PA 18848; Ph. 570-268-5441; Fax 570-268-5350; email raj.singh@sylvania.com

Separations in Environmental Analysis. Dale D. Ensor, Department of Chemistry, Box 5055, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505; email densor@tntech.edu; Martha Wells, Tennessee Technological University Water Resource Center, Box 5033, Cookeville, TN 38505; email mjmwells@tntech.edu

17th North American Catalysis Society Meeting will be held in Toronto, Canada from June 3-8, 2001. Information may be found on the meeting website at www.NRCan.gc.ca/~NACS2001/. Abstracts may be submitted to Prof. Kevin J. Smith, Department of Chemical and Bioresource Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2216 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada, E-mail: NACS2001@nrcangc.ca. Deadline for submitting abstracts is October 1, 2000.

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    Warm greetings from the I&EC Division Executive Committee to those 243 members and 29 affiliates who joined our Division in 1999. We sincerely hope that you enjoy your tenure in the Division and that your stay with us is a long one. You probably know that the I&EC Division was one of the first divisions ever chartered in the ACS. We have a long and impressive history. Incidently, we are always searching for Division members interested in participating in Division governance; if you are one of those people, please contact Steve Cooke, Division Chair.

    If you have other questions about your Division Membership or Affiliation, please contact either Wally Schulz (505-856-7928, wwschulz@aol.com) or Dave Pruett (801-531-4101, davepruett@aol.com). Finally, if you have not already paid your Year 2000 Division dues, please do so just as soon as you can. We don't want to lose you!

    Again, a very warm welcome indeed to the I&EC Division.

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I am presently a professor in the Environmental Engineering and Science Department at Clemson University. I have had more than 30 years of experience in environmental management, separations science & technology and radiochemistry, acquired primarily at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Rocky Flats Plant and through my assignments with the International Atomic Energy Agency, DOEÕs Energy Technology Engineering Center, the Idaho National Engineering & Environmental Laboratory and Waste Management, Inc. I taught chemical engineering and extractive metallurgy subjects at the University of New South Wales, Australia, for three years, and am also an Affiliate Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Idaho. Please see http://www.ces.clemson.edu/ees/navratil for more details.

I have been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1970, and have been extremely active in the past with the Division of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry: Member, National Meetings Program Committee, 1979-84; Chairman, Separations Science and Technology Committee, 1981-83, and Founding Chairman, Subdivision of Separations Science and Technology, 1983-84: Alternate Councilor, 1983-85; nominated for Chairman, 1985. I was instrumental in founding the ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology, and helped organize many symposia as well as the First International Conference on Separations Science and Technology in 1986.

If elected, I would strive to strengthen the Division's programming activities and our cooperation with other ACS Divisions and international societies. I would also like to enrich the diversity of the Division and see us more active in educational programs with US colleges and universities. Finally we need to find some solutions to the growing poor attendance of our members at national meetings, and to better enlist our service to the Division.

James D. Navratil, Ph.D.
Professor, Environmental Engineering and Science
Clemson University
342 Computer Court
Anderson SC 29625-6510
Telephone: 864-656-1004
Facsimile: 864-656-0672
Email: nav@clemson.edu
Web: http://www.ces.clemson.edu/ees/navratil

Biographical Information
Ms. Manheim is a program manager in the Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) at the U.S. Department of Energy where she currently manages about $6 million of program funds for almost 20 projects of interest to the Chemical, Petroleum, and Agriculture Industries. She received a BA in Chemistry from Northwestern University in 1969 and an MBA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1987. Ms. Manheim's scientific work includes almost 20 years of research in areas of medicinal, analytical, and synthetic organic chemistry. Her publications include original research on a new route for the synthesis of trifluoromethanesulfonamide based anticonvulsant drugs in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 39,1509-1513, "The Need for a Strategic Marketing Plan for U.S. Technology," in the GAO Journal, almost 30 reports and testimony on technology based programs and policy for the US General Accounting Office, and presentations at national meetings for the ACS, The Association of Federal Technology Transfer Executives, and the Technology Transfer Society. She is Vice President of the Washington, DC Chapter of the Technology Transfer Society, on the board of directors of the Green Chemistry Institute, and a member of the American Chemical Society, the Federal Research Assessment Network, and Beta Gamma Sigma Business Administration Honor Society.

Statement
My work with I&EC began about 5 years ago when our Executive Committee voted to become the lead division in ACS for Technology Vision 2020 -- a strategy for keeping the U.S. chemical industry competitive in the 21st century and also asked me to serve as the coordinator for roadmapping efforts with other parts of ACS. In that role I have focused on raising awareness and acceptance for industry collaboration across ACS and in other organizations such as the Department of Commerce's Advanced Technology Program, The Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and the Green Chemistry Institute. I&EC has a rich and diverse history and many officers and counselors devoted to the Division. These resources give us a strong foundation on which to build new programming and continue our good work in membership development. At the same time we have a large number of members who are less engaged and who do not attend national meetings or participate in programming, as well as many potential members in industry and the federal laboratory community. My work with the ACS's Committee on Corporation Associates/Office of Industry Relations to develop the New Process Chemistry Roadmap has made me aware of a number of potential programming areas, other organizations who share an interest in public-private collaboration, and individual chemists and engineers who are willing to share certain aspects of their research successes.

If elected I would propose that I&EC sponsor a survey to identify what relevant programming topics might be of interest and do what I could to see that champions for these areas become active Division members over the long term.

We have recently updated our environmental efforts with the Green Chemistry and Engineering Subdivision and added a new Nanotechnology and Materials Subdivision. Areas like Chemistry for Renewable Materials, Biotechnology for the Materials and Process Industries, Alternative Process Design, Computational Chemistry and Fluid Dynamics might lead to some interesting alliances and new programming areas.

I&EC has the potential to become one of the strongest, most interesting Divisions in ACS. I hope you will give me the opportunity to contribute to our Division's bright future.

Biographical Information
John Massingill is Director of the Coatings Research Institute at Eastern Michigan University. He was employed for 25 years by the Dow Chemical Company R&D Department in Freeport, Texas, where he developed new products and processes. John is currently serving as Councilor for the ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry and Chair-Elect of the Division of Professional Relations. He was Chairman of I&EC Division in 1986. As councilor for I&EC, John has served on the Committee on Committees, 1997-to date; Committee on Economic & Professional Affairs, 1996; Committee on Nominations & Elections, 1990-95, secretary, 1991-92; Advisory Board, ACS Books, 1989-92; Committee on Public Relations, 1984-91, chair, 1988-90; Committee on Membership Affairs, 1989; Committee on Local Section Activities, 1981-84; Committee on Environmental Improvement, 1980. He is also a member of the Detroit Society for Coatings Technology, the American Oil Chemists Society, ASTM D01, and AAAS. He is on the Journal of Coatings Technology Editorial Review Board. Dr. Massingill is author of 28 publications, 10 U.S. patents, and one book chapter. John was a candidate for the ACS Board of Directors in 1998.

Statement
As a candidate for ACS Board of Directors in 1998, I listed the following planned activities - Support Student and Technician Affiliate programs as a continuation of my interest in the Younger Chemists Committee and in bringing the enthusiasm and new ideas of younger scientists into the organization. Work to bring new chemical scientists of all ages, genders, ethnicity's, and technical backgrounds into the infrastructure of ACS at national and divisional levels, such as a continuation of my efforts to bring members of the Chinese American Chemical Society into the ACS governance mainstream. Use every opportunity to demonstrate that ACS is an organization of, by, and for all of its members. Work to place a science fellow on the staff of every member of Congress with support from external funding. Promote a television series for the Discovery Channel or similar outlet. ACS can provide a leadership role in developing such a series and get support from other organizations. Work to re-establish the ACS radio network that for decades broadcast weekly programs like "Dimensions in Science" to millions of Americans over more than 800 stations. Promote adapting our ACS programs and products for access on the Internet. As your ACS councilor, I will continue to work toward these goals for our society.

ACS accomplishments are impressive, but we cannot be lulled into complacency by them. The problems we face as a society and division are real and they need actions. We must make sure that chemistry will continue to play a major role in industrial development in the future. The breadth of I&EC industrial and engineering programming is again expanding through our division and sub-division program committees. I am working with other councilor's to increase divisional representation in council and financial support for divisions based on membership and national meeting attendance.

I ask for your continued confidence in me as your councilor to work together with directors and councilors to improve the state of our division, members, and society. For 20 years, I have been involved as a councilor in addressing these problems at local, divisional, and national levels. I offer my experience and unbroken determination to solve our problems with actions, not with studies. Together, we can work to solve the major problems of I&EC, ACS and our profession. I will work to turn the tide and to restore chemistry to its previous standing. I want Chemistry to once again be viewed as the basis of better living for chemists and the nation.

Biographical Information Nancy Jackson is a Principle Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories. Her responsibilities include both program development and research in the area of catalysis. Her research includes many projects which require teaming with industry as well as academia. In I&EC, Nancy has been chair, newsletter editor, secretary, membership chair, and symposium organizer and has been active in the division for 15 years. Nancy is one of the I&EC representatives to the Catalysis Secretariat and is Secretary General of CATL for the year 2000. She is also a member of the Chemical and Engineering News Advisory Board and Chair of the ACS Committee on Minority Affairs. Past ACS appointments have included ACS Science Committee and the Younger Chemists Committee. Through the I&EC Division, Nancy has been active in the Vision 2020 process, which seeks to identify the path for maintaining a healthy U.S. chemical industry for the next 20 years. Nancy has a BS degree in chemistry and a PhD in chemical engineering.

Statement Much of my professional work and ACS activities have centered around the desire to see the three sectors which make up the scientific community, government, industry and academia, work together in the most productive ways possible. This has spurred my work in Vision 2020 and motivated me to team with partners in my own research at Sandia. It is also a factor in my activity in the I&EC Division which is a division which values members from all sectors of our scientific community. The better the three sectors can work together, each contributing what they do best, the better we will be at meeting the challenges of our highly technical world.

Besides my general interest in promoting interaction among government, industry and academia, I have two ACS-related goals which motivate me to run for I&EC Councilor. One is to increase the value of ACS to the industrial member. Second, is to raise the awareness of the significant role the divisions play at ACS. There are several directions that I would pursue in an effort to achieve these goals. For industrial members, this would include assisting the new office of technical programming at ACS to design and put on technical programs outside the national meeting format relevant to industrial members. We must make sure that these programs will meet the needs of industrial members and I&EC can assist the new office in this goal. Other activities include encouraging ACS continued involvement in Vision 2020, continuing interaction with the Chemical Manufacturer's Association and their Responsible Care Program, supporting industrial relations activities by ACS staff and actively supporting and encouraging technical programming that is excellent and useful to industrial members. This may require a willingness to examine new and innovative programming strategies. Technical programming is the heart of ACS. The divisions are responsible for almost all programming at national meetings twice per year. The technical editors of journals, technical reviewers of awards and the energy to establish and maintain many awards are done principally by divisions and their members. Divisions are the technical backbone of the society. I will work to insure that ACS recognizes and compensates the technical divisions in a manner that is on par with their contribution to the Society.

I have found my 15 years of active participation in I&EC to be very rewarding. I hope you will give me the opportunity to serve you in a new venue, and vote for me to represent you as a Councilor of the Industrial & Engineering Division.

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I&EC Officers

Past-chair
Robin Rogers
University of Alabama
Department of Chemistry
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487
rdrogers@bama.ua.edu

Chair-elect
Dale Ensor
Department of Chemistry
Campus Box 5055
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN 38505
densor@tntech.edu

Secretary
Luis Nuñez
Argonne National Laboratories
Chemical Technology Division
9700 South Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL  60439
nunez@cmt.anl.gov

Treasurer
Carol J. Mertz
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Ave
Argonne, IL  60439
mertz@cmt.anl.gov

Councilors
Melanie Lesko
Texas A&M University
PO Box 1675
Galveston, TX  77553
leskom@tamug2.tamu.edu

John L. Massingill
Coatings Research Institute
430 West Forest Ave.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
john.massingill@emich.edu

Kathleen M. Schulz
Sandia National Laboratories
PO Box 5800
Albuquerque, NM  87185
kmschul@sandia.gov

Robert A. Stowe
Retired, Dow Chemical
5680 Chippewa Drive
PO Box 173 Cross Village, MI  49723
rstow@NORTHLINK.NET

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