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Travel Grant to attend the World Congress of Chemical Engineering and ESCAPE, October 1-5, 2017. We are very pleased to announce that the National Science Foundation, though their Program of Process Systems, Reaction Engineering and Molecular Thermodynamics of the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems, has provided a travel grant for young professors, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows affiliated with Chemical Engineering departments in the United States in order to attend the World Congress of Chemical Engineering (WCCE), October 1-5, 2017, in Barcelona, Spain. http://www.wcce10.com A brief description of this congress is attached to this email. A maximum allowance of $2,000 for travel, accommodation and registration will be provided to successful applicants who are selected for this travel grant. Applicants should be either tenure track faculty age 40 years or less, or Ph.D. students or postdoctoral fellows in a U.S. chemical engineering department. In order to apply please send your application package to Ignacio Grossmann [log in to unmask] by **June 26, 2017**. The package will consist of the following: 1. Cover letter indicating status of applicant (faculty, graduate student or postdoctoral fellow) in corresponding chemical engineering department, and indicating whether an abstract has been submitted to the WCCE (title, and session or specialized symposium like ESCAPE, IPIC, ICOSSE) or not. It is not a requirement for applicants to have submitted abstracts, although preference will be given to those who have. Please also indicate if you have already registered. The applicant should also indicate the expected benefit he/she expects to obtain for attending the WCCE. 2. For faculty full CV with listing of publications; for graduate students resume with title of Ph.D. thesis and list of publications. 3. For Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows, letter of support from Ph.D./postdoc advisor. We expect to select the winners shortly after the deadline of **June 26, 2017**. Ignacio Grossmann Dion Vlachos Carnegie Mellon University University of Delaware