October 2, 2008
Chemical engineering honorees to present open forum
Three distinguished alumni from the School of Chemical Engineering will receive the Outstanding Chemical Engineer Award today (Oct. 2).
Activities will be held throughout the day and an open forum is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in G140, Forney Hall.
Each award honoree will offer his or her perspective on the role of chemical engineering education in their career preparation.
The award honorees are Roberta Gleiter (BSChE ’60), an engineering consultant at the Aerospace Corporation and CEO of the Global Institute for Technology & Engineering; Antonios Mikos (PhD’88), the J.W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering, professor of chemical engineering, director of the J.W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering, and the director of the Center for Excellence in Tissue Engineering at Rice University; and Gary Poehlein (BSChE ’58, MSChE ’63, PhD ’66), who after 22 years retired from Georgia Tech in 2000 and served the last four years of his tenure on assignment as director of the Chemical and Transport Systems Division at the National Science Foundation.
The School of Chemical Engineering invites and welcomes anyone who wishes to attend the open forum.