Going Behind the Acronym: What is AICHE?

AICHE Brownbag

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Today’s Brownbag

• What is AICHE?• What are the advantages of being an AICHE

member?• What does the Lafayette student chapter do?• Slides will be available on Lafayette chapter

AICHE sites (sites.lafayette.edu/aiche)

Professional Organizations

• All engineering disciplines have their own professional organization.– Each has a student chapter on

Lafayette’s campus

• Regardless of discipline, great resource for engineers of all types and of all ages.

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

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/student-membership

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

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)– Student and Young Professional Development– Chemical Engineering Practice– Sustainability & Environment

• As students, you get unlimited access to virtually all of them. (Professors do not.)

Sample Webinar Titles

• Biofuels: Metrics and Challenges• The Secret Science of Movie Stunts and

Special Effects

• History of NOx 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

The Marquis Knows Chemical Engineering?: AIChE at Lafayette

AIChE Executive Board

• Presidents: Allyson Hill ‘15 and Bonnie Malhota ‘15

• Vice-Presidents: Hayden Jarboe ’16, Michael Meshberg ’16 and Danielle Ricciardi ‘17

• Faculty: Professors James Ferri (Head) and Michael Senra (Advisor)

What AICHE Does

AIChE atLafayetteIntegrating

Underclassmen

Professional Development Outreach

Social

The Lafayette chapter of AIChE was the recipient of the 2014 Hoff Award for Academic Group of the Year.

Integrating Underclassmen

• ES 101 Brownbags– Meet the faculty (Last week)– This one.– What a Professor Does?– Course selection brownbag

(Fall/spring)

• Mentoring Program– Seniors and juniors in ChE mentor

freshmen and sophomores– Some spots may be open (if

interested e-mail hilla@lafayette.edu)

What AICHE Does

AIChE atLafayetteIntegrating

Underclassmen

Professional Development Outreach

Social

Professional development focuses on (1) making students aware of what it means to be a chemical engineer and (2) providing opportunities for students to become more attractive candidates for grad school and/or the job force.

New for 2014: ChBE Seminar Series

• Lectures required for senior design course, but accessible to all years

• Led by Professors Lindsay Soh and Alex Woltornist (Merck)

• Topics– Toyota Production System Overview– Sustainability– Intro to Life Cycle Analysis– Industrial Ecology

AIChE Brownbag Series

• Include topics such as:– Information about grad school–Managing the Career Fair– Getting involved in research at

Lafayette–What industries ChE’s can enter– Topics provided from industrial

speakers

ChBE Symposium

• Scheduled for last Friday in March

• On the agenda– 2 keynote speakers (well-

established in industry)– Panel speakers (more recent

alumni)– Opportunities to interact with

guests– Presentation of student work

Other Activities

• Plant tours (Air Products, maybe others)

• Conferences (AIChE officers and researchers)– Regional (Next spring,

Manhattan College)– National (This year, Atlanta)

What AICHE Does

AIChE atLafayetteIntegrating

Underclassmen

Professional Development Outreach

Social

AIChE also focuses on (1) being an active member inside and outside of the Lafayette community and (2) developing a camaraderie between students of all years and the faculty.

Outreach Events

• Within Lafayette– Engineering Open House– National Engineers’ Week

• Community–Work with Landis–March Elementary School

Science Fair– Easton High School

Social Events• ChBE Cookoff– Scheduled for Friday, October 24th

• Events within the mentoring program.

• Midnight Breakfast– During finals week

• Student Faculty Interaction Night– Open to all years

Getting Involved• Participate by attending!– Meet your current classmates,

upperclassmen in ChBE and ChBE faculty

• Events in particular (all had freshmen involved last year)– Landis outreach– ChBE cookoff– Symposium– Plant tours