AIChE Ambassadors Build Connections Between Student Members and the Institute

Over the past year, more than four dozen AIChE members - ranging from Institute leaders to members-at-large - participated in mentoring visits to AIChE student chapters at 40 chemical engineering schools. This fall, AIChE hopes to expand this Student Chapter Ambassador program to include even more schools and volunteer member representatives.

AIChE started the Student Chapter Ambassador program in 2006, in an effort to better connect student members with the national organization and with professional engineers on the local level. AIChE has focused renewed effort on recruiting and retaining new graduates and younger members.

The Student Chapter Ambassador program pairs up …