Dr. Letian Dou, the Charles Davidson Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, is Principal Investigator of a research group that will receive funding from the National Science Foundation to study the electronic properties of perovskites.

Discovery could advance natural gas/shale gas utilization, reduce methane emissions, and ease climate change

Anurag Garg is a Purdue alumnus and Vice President of Product Management at Plex Systems Inc. He earned his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree from Purdue University’s Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2012, he founded Bearing Analytics. The company was renamed Dattus in 2013.

One of AIChE’s Board of Directors’ Awards, The Founders Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Chemical Engineering, is presented to engineers who have had a profound impact on the way chemical engineering is applied, and whose achievements have advanced the profession in any of its aspects.