Meet 35 early-career AIChE members recognized for their contributions to chemical engineering, their organizations, and the AIChE community.

Discover sessions and events focused on inclusive leadership, career development, mentorship, accessibility, and community at the 2026 AIChE Annual Meeting.

Dr. Ruilan Guo is being recognized for discovering and advancing gas separation membranes that surpass permeability-selectivity tradeoffs, resist plasticization and aging, and enable high-temperature industrial gas separations.

Dr. Dionisios Vlachos is being recognized for pioneering advances in multiscale modeling, reaction mechanisms, new catalysts, and novel electrified processes for a circular economy and sustainable manufacturing.

Dr. M. Scott Shell is being recognized for groundbreaking research in molecular simulation and for his outstanding textbook integrating thermodynamics with statistical mechanics.

Recognized for her contributions to materials innovation, Dr. Theresa Whiting has helped develop products that improve sustainability, safety, and performance across multiple industries.

AI is changing chemical engineering, but technical knowledge and human judgment remain essential. Yuhe Tian shares five ways students can prepare for an AI-enabled workplace.

Advance your professional development by mentoring capstone design projects, avoiding common engineering math pitfalls, and mastering one of the core thermodynamic concepts: fugacity.

ExxonMobil’s Ben Marshall discusses the design choices and trade-offs shaping efforts to make direct air capture more energy efficient.

Dr. Kevin Seibert is being honored for leading the engineering team responsible for developing, optimizing and commercializing Mounjaro/Zepbound, Eli Lilly’s GLP-1 drug.

Pluspetrol shares how leadership, everyday decisions, and human judgment shape its approach to process safety in the run-up to LACPS 2026.

Hydrogen Safety Panel member Tom Witte shares why clear project scopes, thorough commissioning, and early training are essential to safer hydrogen systems.

The new Quantum ChemE topical at the Annual Meeting will introduce chemical engineers to the growing applications of quantum technologies through accessible sessions, industry examples, and live demonstrations.

Meet Shannon Servoss, a Material Science Engineer at Roche whose AIChE involvement has helped her build skills, expand her network, and foster a more inclusive community.

Meet some of the newest AIChE Fellows recognized for their distinguished careers and service to the chemical engineering profession.

Graduate students have three minutes to share the value of their research with the AIChE community. Submit your 3MT® entry by September 27, and please join us to watch the finalists compete live in the Annual Meeting exhibit hall.

CIB 2026 leaders share where scale-up succeeds, where it falls short, and what the industry is learning along the way.

Gene editing and RNA technologies are advancing rapidly, but turning breakthroughs into medicines is another challenge. Experts explore what it takes to overcome delivery, manufacturing, and other barriers on the path to patients.