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Updated July 20, 2010
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Latest News Read the June Newsletter Please make a note of our new postal address: P.O. Box 7448 Kingsport, TN 37664 Click here for a
few job openings we heard about. Congrats to our Newest Fellow: Mark E. Harrison
Mark
E. Harrison was elected to the AIChE Membership Grade of Fellow in June 2010
after receiving recommendations for this honor from Neil Yeoman, Henry
Kister, Fred Olsson, Pete Lodal, and Jerry Bewley. Mark earned his B.S. in Chemical
Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1981 and his M.S. in
Chemical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University in 1982. He then joined Eastman Chemical Company as
a Process Engineer until 1990 when he moved to manufacturing as a Technical
Staff Engineer (1990-1993), Technical Staff Leader (1993-1995), Area Manager
(1995-1998), and Superintendent (1998-2009) before settling into his current
position as Director of DMT/Glycol Department. He earned his Professional Engineer License
from the State of Tennessee in 1986 and published several articles in Chemical Engineering Progress and Chemical Engineering magazines in 1989
and 1990, showcasing his expertise in distillation columns. He has served as the East TN Local Section
Newsletter Editor (1985), Vice-Chair (1994), Chair (1995), and Director
(2000-2002), and has instructed the PE exam review course in Heat and
Material Balances since 1988. Our
local section owes a great deal of gratitude to Mr. Harrison for his contributions
to our local section and the broader chemical engineering community. Fall 2009 Programs
Kenneth Massey’s presentation on the Massey sports computer
ratings is available here. Process Analytics:
Improving Measurement Capability in your Plant Steve Wright, Process and Environmental Analytics, Eastman Chemical
Company November 17, 2009 See his
presentation here. “Ethics and Excellence in Engineering” Alan Rossiter of Rossiter and Associates Tuesday, December 8th,
2009 Eastman Research
Multimedia Room, B-150C, 201C, Kingsport Pizza Lunch at 11:30
a.m., Program at Noon Alan Rossiter is President of Rossiter
& Associates (4421 Darsey Street Bellaire, TX 77401, USA, Tel:
713-660-9503; Fax: 713-669-1987; E-mail: alan@rossiters.org),
an industrial process improvement consulting company working primarily in the
field of energy efficiency. In addition to consulting projects for
companies such as ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and Sasol, he provides training
courses in pinch analysis and energy management. He also runs courses in
communication skills, engineering ethics and professional excellence. Dr.
Rossiter was born and raised in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and received his
B.A., M.Eng. and Ph.D., all in chemical engineering, from the University of
Cambridge, England. He has more than 25 years of process engineering and
management experience, and more than 50 publications. These include the
McGraw-Hill book Waste Minimization through Process Design, and the
2008 publication Professional
Excellence: Beyond Technical Competence (AIChE-Wiley). He is a chartered
engineer, a registered professional engineer (Texas), and a member of the
American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the Institution of Chemical
Engineers (UK). Ethics
and Excellence in Engineering What, apart from your technical competence, is important in your
career? This is the key question
addressed in Alan Rossiter’s thought-provoking presentation. Our training as engineers is heavily biased towards scientific
and technical matters. However, our
professional and personal lives also depend on many other disciplines, and
many of us fail to appreciate this – or appreciate it only late in our
careers. The talk highlights these
needs and provides practical guidance in acquiring the necessary skills. Its goal is to encourage
professional people (and especially those just entering their profession) to
think through issues that affect their professional and personal future. October 7, 2009 AIChE Young Professionals Advisory Board (YPAB) David Wishnick, Chair of National YPAB When: October 7, 2009. Pizza lunch at 11:30 a.m., presentation at
noon. Where: Eastman Research Auditorium, B-150, Kingsport, Tennesssee Program
overview David’s
experiences as Chicago Young Professional (YP) Chair and National Young
Proffesional Advisory Board (YPAB) Chair along with several other roles
allowed me to gain insight into how AIChE can be more relevant to Young
Professionals. He will use these experiences and apply his
understanding of marketing and business to articulate how YPAB groups can
sustain success on both the local and national levels. David will offer
a YP perceptive on how AIChE and YPAB interact as well as what strategies can
help promote growth to the YP segment and enhance the programming AIChE
offers. He will also elaborate on what has worked and why YPAB is
critical to AIChE for sustained relevance to the greater membership base. Bio David
Wishnick graduated from University of Wisconsin with a B.S in Chemical
Engineering in 2002 and worked in the Chicagoland area in pharmaceutical
validation until 2005. During that time he served as both AIChE Chicago
House Chair and Chicago Young Professional Chair. He moved to Seattle
in 2005 where and began a part time MBA program at Seattle University while
working in Business Development and Technical Sales and Marketing until
2009. Currently he is a student finishing his MBA program. In Seattle
he served as the Puget Sound Minority Scholarship Chair and Treasurer.
Currently he is also the National YPAB Chair. October 22, 2009 Kenneth Massey program at Eastman Lodge On
October 22nd, local section members and guests had the chance to
ask questions from someone who has a direct influence on deciding the college
football teams that play for the national championship. Kenneth Massey was the featured speaker at
the October meeting of the East Tennessee Local Section of AIChE. Dr. Massey, currently
an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Carson-Newman College, developed a
computer algorithm for rating college football teams. The Massey Ratings are one component of the
BCS formula. Dr. Massey’s talk covered
the following topics: 1) Rating theory with an emphasis on the role of strength
of schedule, and censoring margin of victory, illustrated with examples from
previous and current college football seasons. 2) History of computer ratings, their role in the BCS, and
my personal involvement. 3) Nature of competition fostered by the BCS vs. potential
playoff proposals. His presentation slides are here. September -- Tour of Domtar When: Thursday,
September 10, 2009 5:30 PM-7:30 PM Eastern Time Where: Downtown
Kingsport We
had 40 members attend the comprehensive presentations and tour of the Domtar
paper mill in downtown Kingsport. Many
thanks and appreciation to local section member and Domtar employee Rhonda
Smith for her help. More pictures and
information about the mill can be found here.
Congratulations to our new Fellow in 2009! Read recent newsletters from the East Tennessee Section
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Treasurer's
Reports
Web News Archive
“R.L. Hasche—East Tennessee Section’s
First Chair (1945),” December 1, 2009. “Process Analytics”, November 17, 2009. “Kenneth
Massey’s BCS Computer Systems and Sports Ratings,” October 22,
2009. “Plant
tour of the Domtar Kingsport paper mill,” September 10, 2009. “TVA
Nuclear Generation Development and Construction,” Daniel Pratt,
March 10, 2009. (.ppt 5.1MB) “The Kingsport Center for Higher Education”,
Gloria Gammel, February 18, 2009.
(.ppt, 3.7 MB) “Corrosion Engineering”,
Robert Sinko, Eastman Chemical Company, January 21, 2009. (.ppt, 5.5MB) “Chemical Plant Security”, Bill
Hendon, Eastman Chemical Company, December 8, 2008. (.ppt) “Nuclear Fuel Services—Business and History”,
Tracy Coates, Engineering Section Manager, “Sustainability Benchmarks and
Roadmaps”, Darlene Schuster, AIChE Institute for Sustainability, Oct. 22,
2008. (5 MB .ppt) Nu-Energie Biodiesel Plant Tour,
September 18, 2008. “AIChE 100th Anniversary,” Tim Nolen,
April 15, 2008. Parker Smith, “Project Reinvest”,
December 10, 2008. Jonathan Overly, “Alternative Fuels in East
Tennessee,” (3.4MB ppt). Also see ETCleanFuels.org Dr. Michael Karmis, “Deployment of Carbon
Capture and Storage (CCS) Technologies: An Update on Carbon Sequestration and
Enhanced Coalbed Methane”, October 16, 2007. (7.5MB, pdf) Gray
Fossil Site and Museum Tour, September 13, 2007. Sustainability,
Dr. J. Siirola, April 17, 2007. ASME Egg Drop,
February 24, 2007. AIChE Young
Professional Social, January 19, 2007. Plant
Tour – Edwards and Associates – Piney Flats, November 10, 2006. Overview of Recent
AIChE programs – October 2006. Fall Young
Professionals Social – October 28, 2006. Tri-Cities
Beverage plant tour, May 2006. Separation
Technology in Dialysis, Allan P. Turner, M.D., February 2006 meeting
presentation, PowerPoint (5 MB) Reception Held for new
AIChE Fellows, Pete Lodal and Lee Partin, April 2005. East Tennessee
Section Donates Chemical Engineer’s Handbooks, May 2005. Cyber-Security
for the Home, Tom Deaderick, President of Intellithought, April 2005,
PowerPoint (0.5 MB) Large-Scale Controller
Performance, Assessment, Diagnosis, and Improvement – Mike Paulonis, February
2005, Powerpoint (1.75MB) Risk
Assessment of Pump Failure – Wayne Chastain, December 2004, Powerpoint Results of the 2004 Member Survey (East Tennessee Section) – Excel Spreadsheet Recap of the March 2004 Plant Tour: Bush Hog, LLC in Telford, TN “Essential AIChE” presentation on the changes and difficulties in the national organization as presented at the 2003 Fall national meeting (353KB ppt). David Denton, Coal Gasification – Today’s Technology
of Choice and Tomorrow’s Bright Promise (3.8 MB pdf) – Oct. 2003 John Sanders, East Tenn. Fellow – Obituary – July
2003 East Tennessee Membership Facts – June 2003 Eastman and the Manhattan Project –
Howard Young – Sept. 2002 2010 Local
Section Officers
(Click here for historical list of 63 years of local
section officers.)
Webmaster – Tim
Nolen, Eastman Chemical Company Professional
Development
– Joe Parker, Eastman Chemical
Company Newsletter
Editors
– Mark Kettner, Eastman Chemical
Company -- Ashfaq Shaik, Eastman Chemical
Company ETEAC
Representative
– Joey Watson, Eastman Chemical
Company Short Course
Coordinator
– Mark Shelton, Eastman Chemical
Company Postal
Mail Address
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Institute of Chemical Engineers East Tennessee Section Post Office Box
7448 Kingsport,
TN 37664-7448 65 Years of
Local Section History
The East Tennessee Section of AIChE has a long and interesting history. Many influential chemical engineers have shaped and nurtured our professional organization. Click here to read more and become a wizened veteran yourself! You might be interested in the story of our first Chairman, Dr. R. Leonard Hasche. Also, ruminate on all the great engineering names in the list of Past Officers from 1945 to present and also our list of Fellows. Our local section bylaws are documented here. Please send any suggestions or comments to the Webmaster |
