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Professor Nilay Shah CEng FIChemE

I was elected straight to Fellow

I graduated in Chemical Engineering in 1988 and went on to do a PhD. Other than a short spell at Shell, I have been working in academia ever since. My research is in the "Process Systems Engineering" field, where we apply systems modelling and optimisation techniques to a wide variety of process engineering problems at all sorts of scales.

I had been an Associate Member of IChemE for a long time and had kept meaning to become Chartered, but was worried that the process would be very complicated and my lack of sustained industrial experience might be an impediment.

However, when I had a look at what was actually involved, I realised the Competence and Commitment format is very straightforward and flexible, and looks for the demonstration of competencies that are indeed used in an academic environment. Now that the old T&E format has been replaced by a much simpler form, I have been able to draw on my varied experiences in academia very readily and complete the process without too much difficulty.

I applied via the standard route for Corporate membership by writing a Competence and Commitment report. However, because I have occupied some positions of significant responsibility within the university and have been involved in a variety of activities in support of IChemE, I was to my pleasant surprise elected directly to Fellow.

I would definitely recommend that senior academics interested in achieving Chartership through IChemE should explore this possibility.

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