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28th Annual Meeting - Monday, April 16, 2007

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Creating Sustainable Feedstock Collaborations
Chair: K.T. Valsaraj (Louisiana State University)
Plenary speakers will provide perspective on collaborative research on biofeed-stocks, experience
with such efforts, and the engineering aspects of biofuel
production.

  • Innovation and Sustainability: Nance Dicciani (CEO, Honeywell Specialty Materials)
  • A Heartland View of Collaborative Research in Biorenewables: Brent Shanks (Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University)
  • Experentia Docet: Lessons Learned: Tyler Thompson (Research Partnership Leader, The Dow Chemical Company)
  • Catalytic Production of Liquid Fuels and Chemicals from Biomass-derived Oxygenated
  • Hydrocarbons: James Dumesic (Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Wisconsin)

Breakout Sessions

1. Assembling [Creating] Collaborations
Leader: Dady Dadyburjor (RC-AN)
This breakout session will discuss best practices for finding collaboration partners and negotiating the deal. Tapping into the experience base of all three CCR sectors, participants will share strategies and approaches that have worked for them. The goal is to enable participants to move rapidly and successfully from identifying the need to collaborate to establishing the collaboration.

2.a. Development of a Longitudinal Survey for Chemistry Graduate Education
Leaders: Rommie Amaro, Charles Manke, William Olbricht (GE-AN)

The goal of this breakout session is to identify a set of overarching topics and questions about chemistry graduate education that would be of interest to departments nationwide. The Graduate Education Action Network will develop and distribute a longitudinal survey based on the outcomes of the discussion.

2.b. CCR’s role in Graduate Education for Sustainability
Leaders: Tim Anderson, James Hill (GE-AN)
This breakout will share past lessons and current approaches, and identify needs for integrating the concepts of sustainability into graduate education. Anticipated outcomes include a summary of education innovations in the area and identification of future actions appropriate for CCR.

2.c. Promoting Graduate Internship
Leaders: Mark Pepple, Kelly Sullivan (GE-AN)
This breakout will focus on the use of graduate internships and their potential benefits to the participating individuals and sectors. Possible outcomes of the breakout session may include the development of a white paper on graduate internships in chemistry and chemical engineering.

Mississippi River Paddlewheel Steamboat Cruise
Take a short walk down the levee and board the Steamboat Natchez for a two-hour cruise on the Mississippi. Hors d’oeuvres will be served and a cash bar will provide refreshments.The cruise will return in time for you to cross the streetcar tracks and spend some time in the French Quarter for a fine meal or some musical entertainment.

 

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