Committes/Activities

Outreach Committee

Outreach is a fantastic way to get involved with AIChE at UH, interact with other student organizations at the University, make an impression upon students who may be interested in joining UH AIChE, and connect with professionals in industry.

The Outreach Committee allows its members to attend various events and places such as Cat’s Back, Football Tailgates, Chevron Girls Day, TAME Competition, Houston Food Bank, and many other similar events and places. There are also opportunities to network with professionals at STS AIChE outreach events or other events such as plant tours.

Social Committee

AIChE UH would not operate the way it does without the people behind the scenes setting up for general meetings and company information sessions or planning the social events that promote bonding between chemical engineering students or potential chemical engineering students at the University of Houston.

Members of the Social Committee plan and execute the details that are essential to our meetings and socials. It is at these events that fellow chemical engineering students at the University of Houston bond with each other and become more interested in AIChE UH as a student organization.

Chem-E Car

The UH Chem-E-Car Team offers real life application of our chemical engineering education in a fun environment. Our team practices the safest of lab etiquette and conducts broad research in efforts to utilize optimum chemical reactions to propel and stop our Chem-E-Cars. For many chemical engineering students at the University of Houston, we are the first experience applying concepts learned in lecture.
This chemical optimization focuses mostly on: safety of the reactions, the capacity of the reactions to be able to move or stop the car, and the replication of the reaction with regards to difficulty and cost.

The engineering students that get involved and participate in Chem-E-Car generally go in knowing next to nothing about motors, electronics, application of chemistry, and how or why certain safety precautions are taken. A foundational knowledge of these concepts is instilled in all team members, and they will apply it every day.