Marianthi Ierapetritou has been selected to receive the 2016 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the CAST Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). This is a major honor as it recognizes outstanding contributions in the application of computing and systems technology to chemical engineering. It is sponsored by The Dow Chemical Company and it comes with a plaque and $3,000. Marianthi Ierapetritou is the first woman recipient of this prestigious award.

Marianthi will deliver an address at the CAST Division dinner at the AIChE Annual Meeting and will write a feature article for the Division Newsletter.

Previous award recipients (of the past 20 years) have included Mark Stadtherr, Jim Rawlings, Larry Biegler, Christos Georgakis, Manfred Morari, LT Fan, R Taylor, Frank Doyle,Chris Floudas, Eric Ydstie, Yannis Kevrekidis, Venkat Venkatasubramanian, Nikos Sahinidis, Paul Barton, Stratos Pistikopoulos, Jay Lee, Richard Braatz and Rafi Gani.