JACK A. GERSTER MEMORIAL LECTURES

2024


04/19/2024
Eleni Dokou
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Title: Transforming Molecules into Medicine

2022


09/09/2022
Prasanna Joshi
ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company
Title: Innovating Energy Solutions in a Net-Zero Future

2018


09/14/2018
Kara Odom Walker
Department of Health & Social Services, State of Delaware
Title: When an Engineer-Turned-Doctor Takes on Health Issues for the State: The View from Delaware’s Secretary of Health and Social Services

2017


04/19/2017
Udit Batra
MilliporeSigma
Title: Business of Life Science

2015


11/01/2015
Ann Lee
Genentech
Title: Innovations in Technical Development and Manufacturing of Targeted Oncology Drugs

2013


11/15/2013
Karen Fletcher
DuPont
Title: DuPont Engineering – Collaborating to Solve Global Challenges

2012

09/21/2012
William Koros
Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Membranes & Sorbents: Large Scale Separation Change Agents

03/23/2012
J. Erik Fyrwald
Ecolab Inc.
Title: Water – The Next Oil?

2010


03/23/2012
J. Erik Fyrwald
Ecolab Inc.
Title: Water – The Next Oil?

2009


10/23/2009
James Spearot
Retired from General Motors Development and Research Center
Title: Materials Challenges in Developing Fuel Cell/Hydrogen Propulsion Systems

03/13/2009
Thomas Degnan
Exxon Mobil Refining and Supply Company
Title: Catalytic Technologies to Meet the World’s Energy Needs

2008


11/14/2008
Alice Gast
President Lehigh University
Title: Why Complex Fluids are so Simple and Interesting

05/02/2008
Brian Baynes
Codon Devices
Title: Programming the Genome

2007


11/12/2007
Peter Flynn
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta
Title: Biomass Energy: Cost, Scale and Policy Issues

2004


09/24/2004
George Stephanopoulos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Invention and Innovation in a Product-Centered Chemical Industry

2004


09/24/2004
George Stephanopoulos
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Invention and Innovation in a Product-Centered Chemical Industry

2003


11/14/2003
Madeleine Jacobs
Editor-in-Chief, Chemical & Engineering News
Title: The Two Cultures, Zen, and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

2001


03/16/2001
Sangtae Kim
Eli Lilly
Title: The informatics revolution in pharmaceutical R&D

1999


James Meyer
DuPont
Title: Biotechnology — The New Chemistry for the 21st Century

1998


Joe Miller
DuPont Company
Title: The New Challenges of Biotechnology for Chemical Engineers

1996


Mary Good
NIST
Title: Technology: Fueling the 21st Century American Economy

1995


Thomas Gutshall
CV Therapeutics
Title: The Role of the Chemical Engineer in Resolving the Health Care Crisis

1994


Emest Henley
Houston
Title: Doing Business in America…Where are the Engineers?

1992


William 0. Dalton
HIMONT, North American Research & Development
Title: Second Generation Polymers

1991


David Buzzelli
Dow Chemical Company
Title: Environmentalism: The Greening of Corporations

1990


Barry Tarmy
Exxon Research & Engineering
Title: The Reach and Power of Reactor Modeling

1989


Neal R. Amundson
Houston
Title: Chemical Engineering Frontiers

1988


Louis Hegedus
W.R. Grace
Title: Research Opportunities for Chemical Engineers in the Specialty Chemicals Industry

1987


Keith McHenry
Amoco Oil Corporation
Title: Chemical Engineering Frontiers: Research in Energy Processing

1987


Keith McHenry
Amoco Oil Corporation
Title: Chemical Engineering Frontiers: Research in Energy Processing

1986


M. Tribus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: The Quality Imperative in the New Economic Era

1985


George Keller
Union Carbide Company
Title: Economic and Energy Considerations in Separation Process Selection

1984


Paul Weisz
Mobil Research & Development Corp.
Title: Molecules in lntracrystalline Space

1983


Morton Collins
DSV Partners Ill
Title: Technology, Small Business and the U.S. Economy 1965-1995

1982


Richard Emmert
Title: Strategic Planning-A Du Pont Perspective

1981


P. L. Thibaut Brian
Air Products and Chemicals
Title: Reliability of Overpressure Protection Systems: A Markov Analysis

1980


Thomas Pigford
University of California, Berkeley
Title: The Report of the Presidential Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island

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