A Message from the Chair

Hello Everyone,

I hope your fall semester is off to a great start!

It was such a pleasure to see many of you in Montreal—thank you for helping to make the conference a meaningful and successful gathering. Please join me in extending a heartfelt thank you to Chris Barr, who did double duty as both our Program Chair and Banquet Chair. His leadership and hard work were instrumental in making this year’s conference truly memorable.

I would also like to recognize our outgoing chair, Janie Brennan, for her thoughtful and dedicated leadership over the past year. Janie’s contributions have left a lasting impact on our division.

To all our authors, presenters, and session chairs—thank you. Your work continues to inspire our community and drive meaningful dialogue in chemical engineering education. Special thanks as well to our Awards Committee for organizing the judging process and to our Fundraising Committee, whose efforts helped make the monetary awards possible.

I encourage you to read about the award winners and the award-winning papers featured in our newsletter and to consider nominating a colleague for next year’s awards. Details are available on our division website.

Looking ahead, planning is already underway for the ASEE Annual Conference 2026 in Charlotte, NC! The Call for Papers has been released, and abstract submission opens this week—deadline: October 15. We hope you will consider contributing and sharing your work with our community.

We also invite you to join our ChED Outreach Discussion Series, held monthly via Zoom on the fourth Thursday from 2:00–3:00 PM (Eastern). Our first session will be on September 25, featuring Joanne Beckwith Maddock from Carnegie Mellon University, who will share insights from her longstanding work in rural communities. To receive the Zoom link, please contact me at tbayles@pitt.edu.

A big thank you to Lorena Grundy and Monika Crowl for their excellent work putting together this newsletter! If you have suggestions, ideas, or would like to get more involved with ChED, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Wishing you all a productive and fulfilling semester. I look forward to seeing many of you at the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston!

ChEers, Taryn Bayles

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