Date: Monday, March 4, 2002

Schedule: 11:30 to about 11:45 $9 buffet available

Location: The Children’s Museum at 3000 N. Illinois Street, Indianapolis, Indiana. Park in the lot on the west side of Illinois street across from the museum or in the adjacent lot northwest of the museum. At the north end of the Children’s Museum enter under the Infozone sign on the sidewalk walled by brick, enter the doorway at the end of the sidewalk, proceed down the hallway, sign in at security as a guest for the Scientech meeting. The luncheon room is immediately to your left after security.

Presentation: Timothy Limon from Guidant in Santa Clara, California will be speaking on stents that are used to keep clogged blood vessels open to lower heart attack risks. The talk will cover what stents are, and how they are used, of which materials they are made, and their structure. He will talk at length about the design criteria and tradeoffs that designers must balance to enable these tiny devices to treat more patients with success. During the talk, he will present a number of designs that have been used over the years.

Background: Timothy Limon graduated from San Jose University with a Bachelors degree in Physics. He has 14 years of medical device industry experience. He has designed three stents that are currently marketed worldwide. His current role with Guidant is as a Research Adviser responsible for guiding stent design. He holds eight patents on stents and related medical devices. He is father of twins. Timothy Limon, Research Adviser, Guidant Corporation, 3200 Lakeside Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95054

About Scientech: This will be a joint meeting of our local AIChE with the Scientech club which regularly meets every Monday for a buffet and presentation. Scientech is in its 84^th year as a forum for the exchange of information in the scientific and technical fields. Scientech also supports local science fair judging. Other upcoming Scientech meetings include February 18 Junior Scientech activities for middle school children, and February 25 a 3 Dimensional slide show by Bob Armstrong of the Lost River in southern Indiana covering disappearing rivers, enormous swallow holes in the limestone, gulfs where huge pools of water rise to the surface and the Orangeville Rise where the stream reappears. Later planned talks include 3/4 heart stents, 3/11 American Flag, 3/18 Charter Schools, 3/25 Numerical Calculations, 4/1 ?, 4/8 Raytheon six sigma, 4/15 Rose-Hulman business interface, 4/22 Tour bus day trip to the Lost River in southern Indiana, 4/29 Radiation Oncology gamma knife from IU Cancer Center. Some of the programs may change. Scientech membership is open to all persons interested in scientific and technical subjects.

RSVP: Please call your chairman, Dr. Alan D. Schmidt, at (317) 233-5190 by Friday March 1 with your intention of attending, any questions on Scientech, or interest in future meetings. The approximately 45 regularly attending Scientech members do not make reservations, but we will be an extra pulse of attendees that we need to estimate for the food and table count.

2001-2002 Meeting Schedule:

March 4, 2000 - Joint meeting with Scientech

Our previous joint meeting with the American Chemical Society included a fine presentation on crude oil characterization and MTBE, and an opportunity to network with others in the chemical industry. The March 4, 2002 meeting will allow us to gain knowledge in an important, developing biomedical engineering area and to be aware of another forum for scientific knowledge. Please consider attending.

The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) will be having their 2002 Annual Meeting at the Indiana Convention Center on November 3 to 8, 2002. There will be approximately 380 technical sessions presented that cover traditional chemical engineering subjects as well as topic areas including (1) Nanoscale Science and Engineering, (2) Sustainable Engineering, (3) Bioinformatics, (4) Envisioning Biorefineries - Chemicals and Materials from Renewable Feedstocks, and (5) Sensors. Approximately 3,000 to 4,000 people are expected to attend. This is the first time for Indianapolis to be selected.

The Indianapolis Section of AIChE, General Arrangements Committee (GAC) is responsible for promoting local involvement in preparing for the conference and getting sponsorship support for the Welcoming Reception. A bronze sponsorship for a $2,500 donation entitles a company to receive a full-page ad in the final program book (25,000 copies), plus other benefits.

The goal is to raise approximately $40,000 in sponsorship support. This is an opportunity for a company to partner with the AIChE and promote advancements of the chemical engineering field with good public relations. Please contact Tom Leas, GAC Vice-chairman and Welcoming Reception Chair, at (317) 232-8945 if you have any questions about the company sponsorships available.

keating_kevin@lilly.com, work 317-651-1698

Although currently residing in Indianapolis, Kevin Keating was born and raised in a middle class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. This is part of the reason he is a Chicago White Sox fan and not so much a fan of the Chicago Cubs.

He found he had a propensity for chemistry and mathematics during high school, and this naturally led to the pursuit of a Chemical Engineering degree in College. He was also active in organizations both in and out of school where he held leadership positions. This led to his desire to take courses in the College of Business Administration and led to the unique degree in Engineering Management. He received degrees in Engineering Management and in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Illinois

He has worked in various industries from food to specialty coatings, to oleo chemicals, to packaging, to pharmaceutical, to engineering consulting through Fluor Daniels and Lockwood Greene before coming to Eli Lilly and Company. He has twenty years of experience, mostly as the leader of a maintenance department, a utilities department, or as an engineering consultant.

Lilly is a leading innovation-driven pharmaceutical corporation, which is developing a growing portfolio of best-in-class pharmaceutical products by applying the latest research from their own worldwide laboratories and from collaborations with eminent scientific organizations. Kevin currently works at the Lilly Technical Center on the south side of Indianapolis as a Project Engineer for the Parenteral Manufacturing unit. He works mainly in Building 105 where Lilly manufactures insulin and other drugs to be injected into the patient. Specifically, Kevin works with the Small Projects Group, the maintenance department, and the utilities department. Since most departments rely in some part on maintenance and/or utilities, he has the chance to be involved with all the processes in the facility and has the opportunity to work with all the other engineers, allowing him to build relationships throughout the company.

For fun, Kevin participates in philately (stamp collecting) and enjoys reading histories and classics. Following Ayn Rand in Atlas Shrugged, his personal philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.

What You Missed – January
Tour of Midwest Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO) Tour

I arrived late for the tour (40 lashes with a wet noodle), so the only part of the facility I got to see was the main control room—the Integrated Control System Center (ICSC). This was impressive enough to make up for whatever I missed, though. The system itself was within one week of being up and running, so there were already engineers and analysts intermingled with the information technology people who were in the final stages of debugging. There were two long rows of computers, and there were giant screens on the walls, one of which showed the entire network of transmission lines.

The premise under which the MISO operates is a fascinating one. A company or power distributor can apply to have MISO deliver electricity to their facility at a specific time and for a particular duration. MISO then coordinates the transmission of generated power from across the mid-west. MISO expects to complete upwards of a thousand of these transactions every day!

Part of the goal of an alliance like MISO is to prevent insufficient power availability that results in blackouts or brownouts. In order to do this, MISO needs to have an idea of what the electricity demand will be in a particular location at a given time. They have an algorithm that uses sophisticated weather analysis to predict how much electricity will need to be delivered at any given time.

Another fascinating aspect of the system is an extremely complex model that controls the routing of the electricity through the network of transmission lines. This component is necessary because electricity follows the path of least resistance, so a tremendous number of possible routes need to be analyzed and compared.

What You Missed – February
Dinner Meeting with local AIChE members and local ACS

Not only did we have the opportunity to meet and greet fellow professionals from a closely allied field, but we got to do so over an elegant, catered meal in a lovely dining room at the Lilly Headquarters downtown! Oh yes, and the program itself was very interesting and informative as well. In addition to the advertised subject of MTBE, something that stuck in my mind was the fact that it sometimes becomes necessary to determine the origin of a particular sample of petroleum, and that it is actually possible to do this using existent analytical technology! Dr. Philip also discussed the relative magnitudes and impacts of the major oil spills that have occurred, and the various methods used to remediate them.

Lia M. Treffman

New Orleans is the place to be for chemical engineers in March. Consider these exciting events taking place in the "Big Easy" March 10-15:

2002 Spring National Meeting

The world's foremost conference for chemical engineers working in industry

14 topical conferences; 350+ papers

Exciting networking socials and plant tours

NOTE: DON'T DELAY…EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 1/25/02

AIChE Professional & Technical Training

Over 20 unique courses available

Expanded offerings in professional development

Advance your career through education

AIChE's Critical Issues Series: Energy and a Sustainable Planet –(see below for details)

3 forums with prestigious rosters of speakers

Controversial discussion of global climate change, nuclear power, and alternative energy sources

Complimentary admission for Spring full-meeting attendees; attractive pricing for professional & technical training students

Take advantage of super cheap airfare, grab a companion, and join AIChE in one of America's most charming cities. Enjoy cool jazz, hot Cajun food, and a remarkable city steeped in mysterious wonder.

This series of three distinct forums will give you the chance to participate in a stimulating and thought-provoking event. Held in conjunction with the Institute's Spring National Meeting in New Orleans, the Critical Issues Series, March 10-12, will bring together experts including engineers, policy makers, and industry leaders.

Over one million visitors, 3,500 athletes, 26,000 volunteers, 16,000 media are expected this month in Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Preparing for the droves that will descend upon its slippery sidewalks and crowded parking lots, the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee utilized simulation software to ease congestion and improve safety. The software models spectator and transportation flows, security measures, and even complicating factors like blizzards, helping planners maximize shuttle buses, optimize volunteer and security staff, and speed turnover in stadiums.

The engineer behind the smooth sheen of ice on an indoor rink was Milt Garland. Known in the industry as "Mr. Refrigeration," Garland developed the first "shell" ice-maker, which manufactures ice on the exterior of a casing rather than inside of it. The ice is frozen by an ammonia-chilled glycol solution that runs through piping beneath the rink. Temperatures are kept around 40 degrees, with humidity levels in the upper 50s, keeping the rink frost-free. Garland got his start in the navy in World War I, and worked at the Frick Company until he died at 104 in July 2000.

The Indianapolis Star is sponsoring a Career Expo that will host engineering and technology companies that are currently recruiting for experienced professionals.

The Indianapolis Star Career Expo:

February 27^th

The Westin Indianapolis located at 50 S. Capital Ave., across from the Convention Center

Grand Ballrooms 1-4.

There will be sessions from 11am to 2 pm and 3 pm to 6 pm.

This is an excellent opportunity to meet face to face with hiring managers from many of Central Indiana’s Engineering and Technical employers! Opportunities are available for positions in the Engineering and Technology disciplines. Engineering/Technology candidates must have 2+ years of experience to attend.