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Phillip R. Westmoreland, 2013 AIChE President

Phil Westmoreland is a professor at North Carolina State University in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is also Executive Director of the NCSU Institute for Computational Science and Engineering.  

His degrees are in chemical engineering from N.C. State (BS ’73), LSU (MS ’74), and MIT (PhD ’86). From 1986 until 2009, Phil was on the faculty of the Chemical Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and in 2006-2009, he served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation.  

Phil’s research focuses on reaction kinetics and reaction engineering. Results are obtained from experiments, computational chemistry; on reactive-flow modeling; and on molecular-beam mass-spectrometry.  The main technology driver is clean energy from fossil and biofuels, but he has also been involved with developing fire-safe polymers, hypergolic rocket fuels, and plasma processing of microelectronics. He is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications and five books.

In addition to serving as 2013 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, he is a current board member of the Combustion Institute and of the educational nonprofit CACHE Corporation. He is a past board member of AIChE and the Council for Chemical Research; past president of CACHE; and was the founding Chair of AIChE’s Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum. 

His teaching, research, and service have been recognized in recent years by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab's David Shirley Award, AIChE's Gary Leach Award and George Lappin Award, ASEE's William Corcoran Award, the National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Collaborative Integration, the UMass College of Engineering’s Outstanding Senior Faculty Award, and by being named a Fellow of AIChE.

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Phillip R. Westmoreland, 2013 AIChE President and Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University

We are in the early days of a new "Golden Age" of chemical engineering. I propose five reasons. First is new availability of energy supplies worldwide through hydrofracturing and renewable energy. Meanwhile, molecular biology has become a promising tool for production of chemicals and medicines. Computing advances aid our understanding and applications of molecular science, along with product design and process operation. Fourth, manufacturing is more process-oriented than ever, benefitting from chemical-engineering expertise. Finally, the breadth and problem-solving approaches of chemical engineering is well suited to addressing society’s needs and aspirations. These changes provide new opportunities and new challenges, as I will show by recent examples.