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Spring 2013 AIChE Events! DateEventCompany Today!Gen. Meeting 1Dow Sept 13.Lunch and LearnProvenance Sept 14.Tailgate: UT v Ole MissProvenance Sept. 20Gen. Meeting 2ConocoPhillips Sept 21Tailgate: UT vs K StateDepartment/BASF Oct 7.Lunch and LearnDuPont Oct 18.Gen. Meeting 3Bechtel Nov 1.Gen. Meeting 4ExxonMobil Nov 16.Tailgate: UT v OK StateBechtel Nov 22.Gen. Meeting 5BHP Billiton

Date: Friday, September 13 th Time: 11:00 AM Location: CPE Isn’t there an OXE Meeting that day? Yes. Isn’t that Friday the 13 th ? Yes. AIChE will save you

Date: Sat., September 14 th Time: 2:00 PM Location: Lot 104

 Get a flu shot!  Watch out for tablers  Lighten your load  Watch out for lost students  Take your Vitamins!!

Important!! How to get FOOD! 1) Come to the AIChE meeting! 2) (At least pretend to) Read the Venturi! 3) Detach your meal ticket! 4) Fill or don’t fill out the survey! 5) Turn it in and STUFF YOUR FACE!!!!!! WE MUST STOP THIS ^^

 What committees are there?  PR, Media, Outreach, Historian  (details on following slides)  Why should you do it??  How do you apply???  Pick up a Form  Thoughtfully fill it out  Turn it in to the AIChE office by Monday, September 9 th

 Create the fliers you see around the CPE advertising AIChE and it’s company partners!  Be a key component in getting people to the meetings and Lunch’n’Learns!  Organize philanthropy and volunteer events for AIChE

 Photograph the AIChE events and create an album at the end of the year.  Decorate the AIChE cases in the CPE and ETC  (Must provide digital camera)  Assist the Publicist in writing articles for and distributing The Venturi newspaper!  Freedom to write what you wish!

 Olefins plant – ethylene/propylene  Production engineering – optimization and unit troubleshooting

 Furnace optimization and troubleshooting  ChE principles used:  Heat transfer  Fluid mechanics  Reaction engineering  Problem-solving

WHEN Tuesday, September 17 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Wednesday, September 18 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM WHERE Frank Erwin Center (Shuttle Buses provided) WHY Internships, Jobs, Engineering Paper

Design a small car powered by chemical reactions Compete at the AIChE Regional Conference! How to join: Fill out the application at the AIChE office by next Friday 9/13 by 5pm

Basic still: 3500 BC Contemporary distillation column

Penicillin

Can you find them? Absorbers Reactors Separators Mixers Compressors

Particle tracing for quartzProtein modeling

Cells as reactors: e.g. vitamins, antibiotics, small-molecule drugs, industrial polymers, dyes, fuels, specialty chemicals

Signal Transduction

 Design proteins by modifying DNA  New twist on chemical engineering

Forefront of Technology: Programming Genomes With Light

Light-Controlled Regulation Optigenetics Photoreceptors Customize sequence & expression specificity Konermann, S. et al. Nature 500, 472–476 (2013).

Google “UT AIChE”  Click here Click here Let’s tour around the website a bit… New features coming up: ChE Wiki Student internship Q&A

 Nov 1-4  San Francisco  Open to Freshmen and Sophomores:  Only 2-4 spots  Interest in becoming involved with AIChE  Cost -Registration fee ($85) -Part of travel (TBD)  Sign up sheet after meeting to receive application  Panel discussion with industry executives  Recruiting & Networking Sessions. Mini-Expo  Keynote speaker  Leadership training for AIChE and organizations in general

Men’s Flag Football Sundays at 7pm Starts Sept. 22 Coed Flag Football Sundays at 8pm Starts Sept. 22

7 vs. 7 Soccer Sundays at 9pm Starts Sept. 22 Dodgeball Tournament Friday, October 18 at 5 pm After AIChE meeting! Fun Fact: Brian OConnor was All- State dodge in high school. See below: OConnor