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I would like to ask you for your vote since I decided to run as a director for the AIChE Board. As you may know I have been involved in CAST as a director, vice chair and chair, and I am also serving as a trustee of CACHE where I was a president from 2014-2016. I am attaching my brief resume and statement and I hope that you can support me on this endeavor. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marianthi Ierapetritou is a Distinguished Professor and Chair in the Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers Univ. She has 25 years of research experience in process systems engineering, more than 200 journal publications, has graduated 22 PhD students, and has received numerous awards for her work in applied modeling and optimization including the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division’s Award for Computing in Chemical Engineering (2016), the highest distinction in the systems area of AIChE. She is also a Fellow of AIChE. Statement: I have been an active member of the CAST Div. since 2006, when I chaired and organized multiple sessions of the Division and became involved as coordinator of Area 10A (Design), with responsibility for overseeing the organization of multiple (12) sessions and coordinating co-sponsorship with other programs. In 2009, I was elected a director of CAST, and I initiated the formation of the student presentation award to encourage and promote student participation in the Institute. In 2011, I was elected Vice Chair of CAST with responsibility for managing the Division’s awards and organizing CAST’s annual reception and dinner. As Chair of the Division from 2013 to 2014, I was responsible for overseeing multiple activities and spearheading a number of initiatives to increase CAST’s membership. In addition, I have been actively involved with Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering (CACHE) since I was elected academic trustee in 2005. In that role, I was involved in the organization of the 2008 Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations Conference, as a member of the Systems Biology Task Force, and in various web activities. From 2012 to 2014, I served as Vice President of CACHE, and was instrumental in restructuring the task forces and re-shaping the direction of CACHE. From 2014 to 2016, I served as President of CACHE. During that time I emphasized the trustees’ engagement, outreach activities, and the involvement of outside talent to help with the new strategy and vision of CACHE. Of particular importance to me is to actively engage our constituents (AIChE members) and to work to address their changing needs, but also to help constituents better understand the mission and objectives of AIChE and to help grow the membership. Towards that target, I would like to encourage new activities and establish avenues to communicate more effectively the importance of the Institute to a wider audience, reaching out especially to young professionals, student chapters, and underrepresented minorities. I am very passionate about increasing the participation of women at all levels of the Institute. To accomplish that goal I will work to provide more recognition to women engineers and improve AIChE’s infrastructure and services targeting women’s needs as related to work-life balance.