Welcome to our local section home page, where you'll find our program listing,  section news, job openings and helpful links. The Cleveland Section has been in existence for more than 50 years. It is here to provide local focus, content, and direction to AIChE's activities. The objectives of the AIChE Cleveland Section are to advance and to reinforce the engineering arts and sciences related to the theory and practice of Chemical Engineering as it meets the needs of society.

2008-2009 AIChE Cleveland Section Program

The new program will be available soon - be sure to mark your calendar for interesting speakers and new menu choice meals. Check this web page frequently for updates on the year's programs.

• Sep. 2008 Oil and Gas Drilling Location TBA

• Tue. Oct. 7, 2008 Joseph Hensel CEO of Polyflow Corp. Hoggy's (Valley View)

Data Acquisition/LabVIEW short course - at Case Western Reserve University

Click here for details on this two day class on August 14-15 for academic and business communities.

Past Meeting: Centennial Celebration

The Cleveland Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) hosted a Cleveland Centennial Celebration on Thursday, March 27, 2008.  This event included local companies in the Greater Cleveland Area that employ chemical engineers, with representatives hosting booths with information about their companies and what chemical engineers do at their companies.  Booths were hosted by 

• Ben Venue Laboratories

• Go Jo 

• Lubrizol 

• Middough 

• Nalco 

• OSI Soft

• The Cleveland State University 

• URS 

 We had about 60 guests and 20 people staffing booths.  The presentation titled "Building an Advanced Energy Industry in Cleveland” provided by Richard Stuebi of the Cleveland Foundation added interest for the the students and their families. 

   

 

Other Professional Information:

• 100 Centennial for Professional Engineers: Article from NSPE

• GreenCityBlueLake is the interactive online home for all the discussions and activities that are moving Northeast Ohio toward greater sustainability. It's a community workspace, networking tool, knowledge bank, and facilitator of strategic planning. And you can participate!

• The Clinic goes green: The region's largest employer, the Cleveland Clinic, is moving rapidly to green its buildings and operations—and to think more deeply about what it means to be a green hospital system that promotes wellness of people and planet. Go here for a conversation with the new director of the Clinic's Office for a Healthy Environment.

• We're hiring to protect the climate!
  Northeast Ohio needs help planning its transition to a carbon-neutral future, so the Center for Regional Sustainability at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History is hiring a climate action plan coordinator. See the job description here.