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Fall 2013 AIChE Officers

President: Alex Kolb As President, Alex overlooks everything. He is responsible for arranging luncheons with corporate contacts.

External VP: Steve Cotton Steve is our contact with all organizations outside of AIChE. He also helps Alex perform the daily tasks for AIChE.

Internal VP: Lindsey Weisler Lindsey purchases the food and supplies for the luncheons. She is responsible for relations within the department and college.

Treasurer: Henry Chen Henry controls the AIChE accounts and handles all funding and reimbursements.

Secretary: Emily Gibara Emily keeps track of attendance and sends out emails regarding AIChE events and meeting times. She also attends UMEC meetings.

Mentorship Co-Chairs: Keith Minbiole and Justin Carr Keith and Justin create and promote mentorship events to inform students of opportunities in industry, academia, etc.

Social and Service Chair: Delfina Sitar Delfina organizes all the social and service events for the semester.

Newsletter: Scott Thierbacker Scott writes a weekly newsletter for every AIChE luncheon and the bi-annual Semester in Review.

Historian: Matt Farhadi Matt is responsible for documenting all AIChE events.

Webmaster: Eric Giuffrida Eric maintains the AIChE website, facebook page, and LinkedIn page.

ChemE Car Liaison: Noah Rice Noah keeps AIChE updated on competitions and events involving ChemE Car.

Head Sophomore Representative: Olivia Kuenzi Olivia helps get the sophomore class involved in AIChE events and manages the other sophomore representatives.

AIChE Faculty Advisor: Professor Scott Fogler

Companies

We had a great showing this semester of speakers from a variety of organizations and companies! September 5th, 2013 – Unilever September 12th, 2013 – Dow Corning September 19th, 2013 – Dow Chemical September 26th, 2013 – BASF October 3rd, 2013 – General Mills October 10th, 2013 – Shell October 17th, 2013 – Toastmasters October 24th, 2013 – ExxonMobil October 31st, 2013 – DTE Energy November 7th, 2013 – Assured Flow Solutions November 14th, 2013 – Professor Savage on Grad School November 21st, 2013 – Faculty Social December 5th, 2013 – AIChE Elections

University of Michigan AIChE Semester in Review – Fall 2013


WelcomeBBQ I’m sure I speak for all of the AIChE student chapter

when I say that after a relaxing summer break, we

couldn’t wait for classes to start again! To celebrate

the start of a new semester, AIChE Mentorship set up

a barbeque cookout Friday, September 6th from

11:30 – 1:00. Students got the chance to enjoy free

food, socialize, and meet new classmates. In those

two and a half hours, over 125 students attended,

making it one of our most successful events of the

semester!

Intramural Soccer AIChE KICKed off the Fall semester right, creating

AIChE’s most dominant IM team to date…at least for

one game. Not only did we win the first game by 6

points, but Delfina – our social chair – leveled a guy

on the other team, asserting our reputation as the

ruthless team-to-beat. However, despite having

more than 20 students on the team, we were

crippled by the lack of females in attendance and the

rest of the games did not go as well.

BASF Tailgate For the Michigan vs. Akron football game on

September 14th, AIChE hosted a tailgate with BASF on

Elbel field catered by Panera and Marco’s Pizza.

AIChE members had a fantastic time talking to

recruiters, learning about careers at BASF, and eating

free food. Approximately 50 members attened,

which was so impressive that BP (who had a tailgate

set up right next to ours) inquired how they could

have their tailgate be sponsored by AIChE as well.

BASF even had a raffle where a few lucky chemical

engineers got to sit next to the recruiters at the

game!

ChEs mingle with BASF recruiters before the U of M vs. Akron game


Night with Industry On Friday, September 20th, AIChE hosted the annual

Night with Industry. Sophomore ChEs got the

opportunity to learn more about the companies

visiting the career fair, receive resume critiques, and

network with the recruiters. The company

representatives sat down and talked with the

mentees about the role of a chemical engineer in

their industry, how to begin conversations with a

recruiter at Career Fair, and everything in between.

We had a good turnout with approximately 45

students attending.

Rocktober 4th At 8:00pm on (you guessed it) October 4th, AIChE

members gathered at the Rock to show all of U of M

why we aren’t art students. Fueled by cider and

donuts, ChEs decorated the Rock with their favorite

thermo derivations, McCabe-Thiele columns, and all

the equations we’ve come to know and love.

Hopefully this becomes a tradition to remind Ann

Arbor that ‘ChemE Nation’ is still around!

Dexter Cider Mill Trip After the success of Rocktober 4th, ChEs could not

wait to get in the spirit of fall. So a few weeks later,

on October 20th, AIChE organized a trip to the Dexter

Cider Mill. Not only did the students get a taste of

some fresh cider and donuts, but they were also

given a tour of the facility and get an insider’s peek

at how the cider is produced.

ChemE’s from all years came to paint the Rock and each other

Taking a much needed break from studying to visit the Dexter Cider Mill


AIChE National Conference From November 1st through 3rd, half of the officers

flew out to San Francisco, California to attend the

AIChE National Conference. Once there, the officers

attended a variety of seminars by professors,

professional engineers, and chemical engineering

organizations. Officers Alex Kolb and Scott

Thierbacker gave a presentation on maintaining a

healthy relationship with a sister chapter.

The AIChE chapter at U of M also received the

Outstanding Student Chapter Award (for being in the

top 10% of AIChE student chapters) for the fifth year

in a row! In addition, Michael Meldrum and Martha

Neubauer received the Outstanding Freshman and

Outstanding Sophomore award respectively.

ChemE Car This year, the ChemE Car Team qualified for nationals

by finishing within the top 5 in the regional

competition! Several representatives from ChemE

Car joined the officers on the trip to San Francisco to

participate in the competition. Despite having the

back axel bent in shipping, and with the support of

Professor Fogler and the AIChE officers, they placed

23rd out of 32 teams competing. The car would have

finished in the top 10, but the stopping reaction did

not work as planned in the second run. The team is

currently preparing for the North Central Regional

Competition in early April at Michigan State.

Alex and Scott both believe that proper hydration is the key to any good

presentation

Receiving the Outstanding Student Chapter Award for the fifth year in a row As it turns out, having the coolest logo does not win you

the competition

The group doing some sightseeing at Pier 39 before heading home


Marathon Plant Tour Collaborating with the Professor Tadd and the

Detroit Marathon Refinery, AIChE Mentorship

offered a day-long plant tour to ChEs on December

3rd. The students first learned about the refining

process over lunch and then explored the plant via a

guided driving tour.

Ice Skating At Yost As the semester winded to a close and ChEs began

retreating back into the most isolated spots in the

library, AIChE hosted one last study break on

December 7th: a trip to Yost for students to skate all

their stress away and drown their studying sorrows

with hot cocoa and cookies. Members were

encouraged to get festive by wearing ugly Christmas

sweaters.

Sophomore Gingerbread Competition The sophomores decided to get in the Christmas

spirit a little early and hosted a gingerbread house

building competition on December 7th. Being good

engineers (and staying within budget), they decided

to use graham crackers instead of actual

gingerbread. Working on a tight budget, some

students still created some pretty cool things!

The winners from the Sophomore Gingerbread

Competition

Fortunately, ChEs did not have to stare down the U of M hockey team


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