2023 APCChE Student Congress
The Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers–Metro Manila Academe Chapter (PIChE-MMAC) cordially invites you to send delegates to the 2023 APCChE Student Congress, which will be held at the SMX Convention Center, Manila, Philippines, on September 4 and 5, 2023. This event is a major activity of the 20th APCChE Congress and the 84th Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers (PIChE) National Convention.
The 2023 National Student Congress shall consist of five main activities: (1) the APCChE Quiz Bowl, (2) the ChE Undergraduate Research Contest, (3) the Chemical Plant Design Competition, (4) the Chem-E Car Poster Competition, and (5) the ChE MOB: Students versus Professionals.
-The APCChE Quiz Bowl (AQB) is an exciting intercollegiate scholastic competition that provides a platform for students to demonstrate their exceptional knowledge and skills in various domains relevant to chemical engineering, including chemical, physical, biological, and economic principles.
-The ChE Undergraduate Research Contest (URC) is a stimulating intercollegiate competition designed to foster and promote undergraduate research scholarship. It offers a valuable opportunity for students to present their research findings, exchange ideas, and enhance their communication and presentation skills.
-The Chemical Plant Design Competition (CPDCom) is an engaging intercollegiate event where students can effectively showcase their project presentations. This competition aims to promote the application of innovative and environmentally-friendly technologies in the design of chemical processing plants. Addressing existing environmental and productivity challenges faced by the chemical industry encourages potential solutions.
-The Chem-E Car Poster Competition, a new event this year, offers an exciting opportunity for chemical engineering students to think innovatively, integrating principles of chemical engineering with practical design and application. It provides a platform for participants to demonstrate their engineering skills, problem-solving abilities, and understanding of sustainable and efficient energy systems. This competition aims to challenge participants to design a shoebox-sized car powered by a chemical energy source.
-The ChE MOB: Students versus Professionals is an exciting multiple-choice general information trivia game that welcomes both ChE professionals and undergraduate students. In this friendly competition, ChE undergraduate students strive to outperform and eliminate the ChE professionals to win the game and the accompanying cash prize. It serves as an entertaining way to test knowledge and engage professionals and students in a friendly challenge. See less
SDGs Special Symposium
SCEJ presented the Sapporo Declaration “Declaration on the United Nations SDGs at Sapporo 2019 – Chemical Engineering for Human Well-Being”. The declaration is an important theme at APCChE2023 to be held in Philippines from 4 to 9 September, where a special SDGs symposium will be held. We call for students who will present research proposals on how chemical engineering can contribute to the achievement of the SDGs in the Asia-Pacific region. This time, we have two categories for students’ participation.
Meet our Speakers
The APCChE 2023 brings you the best Chemical Engineers in their respective fields.
Prof. Robert S. Langer, ScD
Robert Langer is one of 12 Institute Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); being an Institute Professor is the highest honor that can be awarded to a faculty member. He has written over 1,500 articles, which have been cited over 383,000 times; his h-index of 307 is the highest of any engineer in history and the 2nd highest of any individual in any field. His patents have licensed or sublicensed to over 400 companies; he is a cofounder of a number of companies including Moderna. Dr Langer served as Chairman of the FDA’s Science Board (its highest advisory board) from 1999-2002. His over 220 awards include both the United States National Medal of Science and the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (he is one of 3 living individuals to have received both these honors), the Charles Stark Draper Prize (often called the Engineering Nobel Prize), Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, Albany Medical Center Prize, Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, Kyoto Prize, Wolf Prize for Chemistry, Millennium Technology Prize, Priestley Medal (highest award of the American Chemical Society), Gairdner Prize, Hoover Medal, Dreyfus Prize in Chemical Sciences, BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine, and the Balzan Prize. He holds 40 honorary doctorates, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and Northwestern, and has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors.
Prof. King Lun Yeung
Professor King Lun Yeung is the Director of the HKUST-CIL Joint Laboratory of Innovative Environmental Health Technologies, the HKUST ENVF-INA/LMA Joint Laboratory of Environment, and the France-HKUST Innovation Hub. He was the Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and Director of the Technology Leadership and Entrepreneurship Program (2014-2018) He is a recipient of the 2020 Chief Executive’s Commendation for Community Service for the Outstanding Contribution to the Fight Against COVID-19, the 2018 Gold Medal and three 2022 Silver Medals from the International Exhibition of Inventions in Geneva, and the 2015 Google Solve for X Moonshot. Professor Yeung’s research on the Environmental Health Technologies for Healthier Living is rated a world-leading research with outstanding impact in term of reach and significance by the territory-wide Research Assessment Exercise 2020 conducted by the University Grant Council of the Hong Kong SAR government. It is one of the few among the 340 research impact cases rated 4 stars by a panel of 361 distinguished scholars from around the world
Prof. Raymond R. Tan
Raymond R. Tan is the current Vice-President for Research and Innovation, a Distinguished Full Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering, and University Fellow of De La Salle University, as well as an Academician of the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology. In the Scopus database, he has over 500 publications and 11,000 citations, with an h-index of 54. He works in the research area of process systems engineering with applications to carbon management and process integration, and is the co-developer of the carbon emissions pinch analysis (CEPA) algorithm. He is an editor-in-chief of Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, an associate editor of Sustainable Production and Consumption and of Cleaner Engineering and Technology, and an editorial board member of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. He has received multiple scientific awards from organizations in the Philippines, is ranked in the “Stanford List” of the top 2% of the world’s scientists, and is in the Reuters “Hot List” of the world’s 1,000 most influential climate researchers.
Prof. Mikio Sakai
Dr. Mikio Sakai is currently Full Professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering & Management in The University of Tokyo. He earned his Ph.D. degree from The University of Tokyo in 2006. Then, he became Assistant Professor in 2007, Associate Professor in 2008, and Full Professor in 2023 at The University of Tokyo. In addition, he has become Visiting Reader at Imperial College London since 2016 and Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey since 2019. He extensively studies modeling and simulation for granular and multi-phase flows, parallel computation techniques for the discrete element method, and data science for powder systems. He is a world-leading professor in computational granular dynamics and has delivered many invited lectures at conferences. Besides, he has received some scientific awards, including The SCEJ Award for Outstanding Research Achievement presented by The Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan, the IP Award presented by the Information Center of Particle Technology, the Best Paper Award presented by the Society of Powder Technology of Japan and JACM Fellows Award presented by Japan Association for Computational Mechanics. He holds important posts in the powder technology community, including Director of the Society of Powder Technology of Japan, as well as Head of the Modeling & Simulation Division and Chairperson of the AI Technical Committee in the Association of Powder Process Industry and Engineering, JAPAN. Currently, he is the Editor of Chemical Engineering Science and Granular Matter.
Prof. Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung
Professor Kuo-Lun (Allan) Tung is currently the Vice President of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers (TwIChE), the Chair Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering in National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan and a Fellow of the International Water Association (IWA). He is now also serving as the Deputy Director of the Water Innovation and Environmental Research (WInnER) Center at NTU. He was a council member of The Filtration Society in UK within 2008-2012 and also serving as the Vice Chair of the membrane technology specialist group in IWA from 2017 to 2022. He extensively studies membrane separation technology application in water resource and environmental protection for over 20 years, developing inorganic composite membranes which can recycle and reuse wastewater and solvents through the membrane. Allan has published over 230 SCI journal papers, 30 books/book chapters. He has also issued 30 patents and his inventions led to two start-up membrane filter companies. Allan was invited to deliver more than 60 plenary/keynote/invited speeches in international conferences and received several national and international awards as a recognition for his work and one of his disruptive innovation of inorganic membrane has been featured by Discovery Channel. Prof. Tung has been invited to be the Editor of Separation & Purification Technology journal, a prestigious journal published by Elsevier with an impact factor of 9.136, being the first editor of the journal in Taiwan in the past 30 years. In addition, Prof. Tung also served as one of the Editorial board members in various international SCI journals, to mention a few: Journal of Membrane Science, Elsevier (SCI: 10.53), ChemBioEng Reviews, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany (SCI, IF: 6.207), Membranes (IF: 4.562), Desalination and Water Treatment, Taylor & Francis (SCI, IF: 1.273), and Membrane Water Treatment, Techno-Press (SCI, IF: 1.092). Besides, he was also invited as the Guest Editor of international journals including Desalination, Elsevier (SCI, IF: 11.211), Bioresources Technology, Elsevier (SCI, IF: 11.88), and Separation Science and Technology, Taylor & Francis (SCI, IF: 2.799).
Prof. Hui Tong Chua
Professor Dr Hui Tong Chua, PhD (NUS), M.Eng. (NUS), B.Eng (1st Class Hons, NUS), is Professor of Chemical Engineering and Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at The University of Western Australia (UWA). His research interest covers Heat and Mass Transfer, Thermodynamics, Process Engineering, Waste Heat Utilisation and Nanomaterial Syntheses. Six of his international peer reviewed journal articles are among the top 1% percentile in the field of Engineering in terms of citation. One of his key research achievements is the successful spinning off of his catalytic methane cracking technology, now known as the Hazer Process, as Hazer Group Ltd., which raised $5m in their Initial Public Offering on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX:HZR) in November 2015, it currently has a market capital of $115m. Hui Tong is one of the original inventors of the technology. He is the Chief Scientific Officer of Ablano Pty. Ltd., which focusses on the commercialisation of few-layer graphene for electronic chip and consumer end product applications, and boron nitride nano onions as super lubricant for machinery and biomedical applications. He is also a Non-Executive Director of Good Water Energy Ltd., which is spearheading the development of baseload geothermal energy for steam, green hydrogen and ammonia applications.
Prof. Guohua Chen
Professor Guohua CHEN is currently the Dean and Chair Professor of Smart Energy Conversion and Storage, School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong. He obtained his BEng from Dalian University of Technology in 1984, MEng and PhD from McGill University respectively in 1989 and 1994. He started his academic career at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1994, and worked as the Head of Department, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering during 2012 and 2016. He moved to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as Chair Professor of Energy Conversion and Storage in 2017 and served concurrently as an Associate Vice President (Research Support) during 2017-2021. Professor Chen has nearly 30 years of working experience in research and development on energy and environment related projects. He has published over 330 peer reviewed journal papers. His research papers have been well cited by peers with Google Scholar Citation more than 35,000 and H-index 99. He also has three US patents and ten Chinese patents. He is the recipient of the inaugural Research Excellence Award, School of Engineering, HKUST; the winner of Merit Award for Individual Research, Faculty of Engineering, HKPolyU. He is a Fellow of HKIE, AIChE, Global Academy of Chinese Chemical Engineers. He is also elected as a Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering. He served as the President, Asian-Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineering. He is now the Chairman, World Chemical Engineering Council. He also serves as a Deputy Director, Chemical Industry and Engineering Society of China. He is Editor-in-Chief, Process Safety and Environmental Protection; Editor, Separation and Purification Technology; Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering; Associate Editor, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering.