COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 18, 2008 – Daniel Arnold, a senior in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering at Texas A&MUniversity, has been elected executive student committee president of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE).
Arnold, who hails from Richmond, Texas, was elected at the organization’s centennial annual meeting in Philadelphia this month. The newly formed national position represents the highest-ranking office within AIChE that a student may serve.
As executive student committee president, Arnold will help coordinate the activities of AIChE’s more than 160 student chapters, which are located across nine geographic regions throughout the nation.
He will be primarily tasked with developing approaches for enhancing cooperation among schools belonging to the same region, increasing overall student enrollment in AIChE, and helping facilitate communication between the national level of AIChE and its student chapters to promote awareness of the institute’s many available resources and programs.
“I’ve been in AIChE since I was a freshman, and I’ve seen and experienced a lot of the good that the organization does,” Arnold said. “For chemical engineering students, I can’t imagine any reason why they shouldn’t be a part of AIChE.”
AIChE is the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with more than 40,000 members from 93 countries. Student chapters of AIChE provide access to a variety of resources, including seminars, field trips and service projects – all aimed at enhancing a student’s academic career as well as helping assist in the transition from the classroom into a professional environment.
