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WebCAST seminar on “Chemical Product Design: What is it? Why is it Important? How is it done?” by Kevin Joback and Michael Hill Date: September 20, 2012, 2-4 pm (Eastern time) Dial-in from the comfort of your office to hear the presentation Deadline to Register: September 14, 2012 (details at http://www.castdiv.org/WebCAST.htm) Title: Chemical Product Design: What is it? Why is it Important? How is it done? Abstract: Chemical products such as fuels, coatings, lubricants and cosmetics must be designed to meet specific customer, environmental, safety and regulatory constraints. Designing such products is a combinatorial problem that can involve searching through thousands of candidate molecular structures and mixture formulations. In years past, this search was conducted primarily experimentally, a costly and time-consuming process. Today, with a global marketplace demanding an ever-greater rate of product innovation, new approaches to chemical product design are needed. This course will discuss what chemical product design is, explain why it is important for chemical engineers to understand it, and present approaches and examples of how chemical product design is done. Michael Hill Biography: Michael Hill is Lecturer in Chemical Engineering Design at Columbia University in New York City. He obtained his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University, and subsequently joined Unilever Research in Edgewater, NJ in 1983. Michael remained with Unilever for 22 years, leading R&D departments in various product categories, most notably Skin Care and Cleansing. Michael also spent 3 years in the Unilever Research Port Sunlight Laboratory in the U.K. He left Unilever in early 2005, and has been teaching Chemical Product and Process Design at Columbia University ever since. In addition to writing numerous internal Unilever Research documents, Michael has authored several papers and book chapters on various aspects of chemical product and process design. He is Chair of AIChE’s Process Development Division, and has been a Fellow of AIChE since 2008. Kevin Joback Biography: Kevin G. Joback is president of Molecular Knowledge Systems. For more than 25 years Kevin has worked in the areas of physical property estimation and chemical product design. He has developed a number of group contribution estimation techniques now widely used in industry. He has designed numerous chemical products including environmentally friendly cleaning and separation solvents, new lubricants, enhanced thermal storage materials, improved jet and rocket fuels, and non-hazardous aircraft deicing fluids. Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Masters and PhD from MIT, all in chemical engineering.