Symposia
Symposia are being planned to bring together industry experts and provide participants with a forum for the technical exchange of their research and vision of the future as well as an opportunity to network and renew acquaintances with colleagues and peers from around the world. Conferences in development are :
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Title |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Clean Coal Technology | Prof. R. Gupta (Canada) Prof. Miura (Japan) Dr. J. van Dyk (South Africa) |
| Energy Saving Distillation Technologies | Dr. K. Kataoka (Japan) Prof. Z. Olujic (Netherlands) |
| Hydrogen Generation | Dr. B. Evans (USA) Dr. M. Gorensek (USA) |
| Fuel Cells | Prof. B. Peppley (Canada) |
| Technology for Sustainable Oil Sands Development | Prof. Z. Xu (Canada) Prof. I. Gates (Canada) Dr. J. Czarnecki (Canada) |
| Oil Shales | Dr. A. Burnham (USA) Prof. L. Shuyuan (China) |
| BioEnergy | Dr. A. Bassi (Canada) Prof. A. Dalai (Canada) |
| Solar Energy | Prof. O. Savadogo (Canada) |
| Nuclear Energy | Dr. A. Miller (Canada) |
| Upgrading of Heavy Oil by New Technologies | Dr. Kazuhiro Inamura (Japan) Dr. Yoshikazu Sugimoto (Japan) Dr. Ryuzo Tanaka (Japan) Ron Pugmire (USA) Craig Fairbridge (Canada) Murray Gray (Canada) |
| Other Topics | Prof. M. Gray (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) Prof. P. Tanguy (Canada) |
Title |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Life Cycle Management of Products and Services | Prof. R. Samson (Canada) |
| Gasification, Syngas and CO2 Sequestration | Dr. K. Liu (USA) Prof. Dr. G. Xu (China) Dr. A. Avagliano (USA) |
| Sustainability in Chemical Engineering | Dr. G. Statyukha (Ukraine) |
| Water Production and Wastewater Treatment – Technologies, Advances, and Issues | Prof. R. Sheikholeslami (United Kingdom) Prof. C. Fall (Mexico) Dr. Mark Wilf (USA) |
| Environment - Air Pollution | Mrs. E. Lord (Canada) |
| Biorefinery/Biomass Transformation | Dr. T. Browne (Canada) Dr. F. Berruti (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) |
| Other Topics | Prof. E. Chornet (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) Prof. P. Tanguy (Canada) |
Title |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Green Polymers | Prof. M-C. Heuzey (Canada) Prof. J. R. Dorgan (USA) Prof. L. Avérous (France) |
| Polymer Engineering | Prof. D. Estenoz (Argentina) Prof. Dr. J.R. Leiza (Spain) Dr. J. Sosa (USA) |
| Nanotechnology | Prof. N. Abbott (USA) Prof. M. Tam (Canada) |
| Emulsion and Emulsification | Prof. L. Choplin (France) Prof. J-L. Salager (Venezuela) Dr. M-E. Saint-Victor (USA) |
| Micro Process Technology | Dr. C. deBellefon (France) Dr. V. Hessel (Germany) Dr. J. Lerou (USA) |
| Particle Technology and its Applications | Prof. J. Zhu (Canada) Prof. A. Kvade (Germany) Dr. Jian-Xin Li (USA) |
| Food Processing and Emerging Trends | Prof. G. Ascanio (Mexico) Dr. E. Brito (Germany) Dr. K. Marcotte (Canada) Dr. Marzouk Benali |
| Scale-Up : the key to process development | Dr. J. Worstell (USA) Dr. J. Powell (USA) |
| Electrochemical Processes | Prof. O. Savadogo (Canada) |
| Advanced Polymer Hybrids, Composites and Alloys | Prof. S. Zhu (Canada) Prof. T. McKenna (Canada) |
| Plasma Processing | Prof. S. Coulombe (Canada) |
| Other Topics | Dr. G. Liebermann (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) Prof. P. Tanguy (Canada) |
Title |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Biomaterials, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine | Prof. M. Bushmann (Canada) Prof. Shoichet (Canada) Prof. M.S. Kallos (Canada) |
| Biochemical Engineering | Prof. Zandstra (Canada) Prof. Behie (Canada) |
| Biosensors and Diagnostics | Prof. M. Toner (USA) |
| Biothermodynamics | Prof. U. V. Stockar (Switzerland) |
| Metabolic Engineering | Prof. W-S. Hu (USA) Ziomara Gerdtzen (Chile) Sarika Mehra (India) Manolis Tzanakakis (USA) |
| Systems Biology | Prof. M. Jolicoeur (Canada) |
| Bioinformatics | Prof. S. Bicciato (Italy) |
| Bioproducts, Bioreactors and Bioprocesses | Dr. A. Margaritis (Canada) |
| Other Topics | Prof. A. Hrymak (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) Prof. P. Tanguy (Canada) |
Other Contemporary Topics in Chemical Engineering
Title |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Separation Science and Technology | Prof. Arlt (Germany) Prof. K. Yoo (Korea) |
| Rheology in Chemical Processing & Chemical Product Design | Prof. C. Gallegos (Spain) Dr. A. Ajji (Canada) |
| Process Design | Dr. Mostoufi (Iran) Dr. Sotudeh (Iran) Prof. Loney (USA) |
| Mixing in Industrial Processes | Prof. S. Kresta (Canada) Prof. J. Dersken (Canada) Dr. S. Jaffer (USA) |
| Surface Forces, Interfacial Phenomena and Colloids | Dr. S. Giasson (Canada) Prof. M. Gee (Australia) Mr. S. Fraser (Canada) |
| Polymer Microstructural Characterization and Fractionation | Prof. J. Soares (Canada) Prof. H. Pasch (USA) Dr. Brad Stiles (USA) |
| Non-Intrusive Methods and Modeling in Particle Technology | J. Doucet (Canada) Prof. F. Bertrand (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) |
| Chemical Engineering in Aeronautics | Prof. J. Bertrand (France) Dr. G. Isaac (Canada) |
| Multi Scale Structures | Prof. J. Li (China) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) Prof.Y. Huang (USA) |
| Computer Fluid Dynamics | Prof. K. Krishnaswamy (USA) Proj. J. Chaouki (Canada) |
| Knowledge Management in Process Engineering | Prof. Kraslawski (Finland) |
| Other Topics | Prof. R. Munz (Canada) Prof. J. Chaouki (Canada) Prof. P. Tanguy (Canada) |
Chemical Engineering & Society
Title |
Responsible |
|---|---|
| Teaching green engineering | Gregory Yablonsky (USA) |
| Teaching chemical engineering design including the capstone design project | Paul Stuart (Canada) |
| University-Industry interaction: technology and knowledge transfer | Jose Saniger (Mexico) |
| New frontiers in chemical engineering | Tim Anderson (USA) |
| Active learning techniques | Timothy Raymond (USA) |
| Solving Problems through Innovation | Esteban Chornet (Canada) |
| Chemical Engineering in Nanotechnology Education | Dr. Marios Ioannidis (Canada) |





