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Patrick Mather, a Penn State alumnus and the Richard E. Garman Dean of Engineering and professor of chemical engineering at Bucknell University, has been named the dean of Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College, effective Aug. 16.
th annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala: Automotive Plastics Industry Solutions for COVID-19. The new award will highlight how automotive OEMs and suppliers adapted their processes, materials, or business to support international needs for battling COVID-19. “The automotive plastics industry developed a number of extraordinary innovations for battling COVID-19,” said Jeffrey Helms, global automotive director, Celanese Corp., who returns as the 2021 SPE Automotive Innovation Awards chair. “Protective masks, face shields, clothing; medical supplies; ventilators and more were made poss...
Danbury, Conn. — The Society of Plastics Engineers has elected a new executive board, and also announced the advancement of Jason Lyons, business manager at Arkema Inc., to SPE president. Lyons will assume the position of president starting on July 1. The president's term will run from 2021-2022…
To commemorate 50 years of plastics innovation and the challenges faced this past year, the SPE Automotive Division has revealed a new category, and new events.
SPE ACCE 2012 awards program. Photo Credit: SPE ACCE The organizing committee for the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE, Brookfield, Conn., U.S.) Automotive Composites Conference & Expo (ACCE, Detroit, Mich., U.S.) has sent out a call for nominations for its annual innovative parts competition at the group’s 2021 conference, Sept. 8-10 at the Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi, Michigan. Any registered conference participant (speaker, sponsor/exhibitor or attendee) may nominate original equipment or aftermarket composite parts on passenger vehicles, light trucks and heavy trucks from...