Giving Opportunities

35 Under 35 Award Endowment

35 Under 35 Award Endowment
Your gift provides perpetual funding for the 35 Under 35 Award. This program recognizes rising stars in chemical engineering who are shaping the profession and strengthening the AIChE community.

Area 1J Endowment

Area 1J Endowment
This is an endowed fund to provide support (awards, leadership development, etc for early career / young professionals within the technical area. The recipients will be selected by a to be developed selection committee within Area 1J.

BAC-University K-12 STEM Ambassadors

The Be A ChemE Campaign will introduce and demonstrate to kids that careers in chemical engineering are fun, rewarding and will enable them to positively impact the world.

Bee A ChemE Fund

Bee a ChemE Fund: Your donation will support a national awareness campaign that introduces and demonstrates to K-8 students, parents and teachers that careers in chemical engineering are fun, rewarding and will positively impact the world. That’s doing good.

Brown Endowment for MAC Scholarships

Henry T. Melinda C. Brown Endowment. Your gift will inspire up to 30 high-achieving incoming freshmen and undergraduate chemical engineering students annually. Thank you for investing in students and removing barriers to help them achieve their career dreams.

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division Endowment

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering (CRE) Division Endowment to build financial stability to ensure the perpetual viability of our awards, elevate professional educational and community-building opportunities and invest in the future of chemical engineering with new programs.

Chen Endowment

Chen Endowment - Individual

Contributor

AIChE 2025 Gala

Contributor - Individual

2025 AIChE® Gala — Engineering a Decade of Impact — marks the 10-year anniversary of our Doing a World of Good. Your gift is a confirmation of what we’ve accomplished together and will further transform the chemical engineering community.

DAWG - Unrestricted Fund

Doing a World of Good
Your donation tonight at the AIChE Annual Gala connects you to a community of individuals committed to advancing the chemical engineering profession and making a lasting positive impact on the world. That’s inspiring extraordinary.

Disabilities OutReach and Inclusion Community (DORIC) - Individual

Doing a World of Good - Annual Fund

Doing a World of Good - Annual Fund
Your donation to the AIChE Foundation advances AIChE. You will fuel innovation, empower engineers at every stage and broaden access to the chemical engineering profession. That’s engineering impact.

Environmental Division Endowment Fund

Environmental Division Endowment Fund will help sustain the Lawrence K. Cecil Award, AIChE's most prestigious environmental honor. In 2025, the Environmental Division celebrates 55 years of advancing environmental chemical engineering. Commemorate this milestone by ensuring the Cecil Award is funded in perpetuity.

Fellows Endowment

Fellows Endowment
Supporting the AIChE K-12 STEM Ambassador Program which connects student chapters to local schools. Offering in-classroom, hands-on experiments, young minds are opened to the wonders of chemical engineering and the positive impact of a STEM career.

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative (FOSSI) helps open doors to provide transformative financial awards to high-achieving underserved students with a passion for science, technology, engineering, and math. Your gift will support the development of the diverse and talented next generation of STEM innovators.

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative - Individual 2024

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative - Individual

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative - Individual 2025

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative - Individual 2026

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative - Individual 2027

Future of STEM Scholars Initiative - Individual 2028

Janice Lumpkin Travel Award

Janice Lumpkin Travel Award
The Janice Lumpkin Travel Award supports students pursuing science and engineering by providing funding to attend conferences and professional development opportunities.

June Wispelwey Award

June Wispelwey Award
Honoring June’s leadership and work in fostering understanding and collaboration throughout SBE and AIChE.

L.-S. Fan Lectureship

L.S. Fan Lectureship
L.S. Fan’s trailblazing and voluminous publication and patent record, commitment to teaching and educational excellence, distinguished career of service, and engagement with entrepreneurship will be remembered with the L.S. Fan Institute Award for Advancing the Fundamentals of Chemical Engineering.

Laurencin RES Founders’ Award Endowment

Laurencin RES Founders’ Award Endowment
Supporting the selection of a researcher/teacher/mentor who has significant and lasting impact in regenerative engineering.

LGBTQ+ and Allies initiative

LGBTQ+ and Allies Initiative

LGBTQ+ and Allies Initiative Endowment

Minority Programs (MAC)

MAC Fund
Your gift will inspire up to 30 high-achieving incoming freshmen and undergraduate chemical engineering students annually. Thank you for investing in students and removing barriers to help them achieve their career dreams.

Prausnitz Gift - Individual

The Prausnitz Endowment which provides perpetual funding to award annually the Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lectureship, in honor of John Prausnitz, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, who pioneered the field of engineering-oriented molecular thermodynamics.

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Safety & Ethical Practice
Your gift helps advance a culture of safety across the chemical engineering profession. Your support expands process safety education, equips future engineers with critical training, and strengthens leadership committed to protecting people, communities, and the world around us.

Safety and Ethical Practice- MEM - TEMP -Restr-CASH

SBE Catalyst Fund

SBE-Biocatalyst Fund

Society for Biological Engineering BioCatalyst Fund

Student Program

Student Program
Your gift to the AIChE Student Fund will enhance access to leadership opportunities and support scholarships. Your donation is an investment in each of our 26,000 student members and will help to support the extraordinary!

Summer School for Faculty Endowment

Summer School for Faculty Endowment
Supporting the faculty of the future who will educate the next generation of chemical engineers.

The Gregory N. Stephanopoulos Award in Metabolic Engineering

Named and endowed in recognition of Dr. Stephanopoulos, this bi-annual award will be presented at the Metabolic Engineering Conference in recognition of a prominent scientist or engineer who has made groundbreaking contributions to the field of metabolic engineering.

The Langer Prize

The Langer Prize for Innovation and Entrepreneurial Excellence which will enable the annual selection of a Langer Fellow. Your gift will help to honor of Bob Langer’s pioneering spirit and accelerate research that may lead to significant innovations, positively impacting society.

Women In Chemical Engineering

Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) supports an array of opportunities for professional development including access to programming, networking events and mentors.