History of the

Energetic Materials Group

(EMG)

By Bruce Cranford

It is interesting how things get started. I was a volunteer at the AIChE officers Conference in Washington, D.C. in June 2000, and talking to one of the attendees from Cape Canaveral, FL. He spoke of the need for a group within AIChE to focus on rocket propellants. About a year later I spoke with Chester Clark, from the Naval Surface Weapons Center (NSWC), Indian Head, MD about the need and they thought it was a good idea. I put some preliminary information together on the issue, finding no other organization that met the goals, showed it to AIChE and the NSWC. Several people volunteered to help. Support grew over the next year and we had our first national meeting, at the AIChE National Meeting in November 2002. From that meeting, Al Weimer offered the support of the AIChE's Particle Technology Forum (PTF), which we gratefully accepted, becoming Group 3e, Energetic Materials.

Technical Meeting History

• ^1st Annual Meeting 11/6/2002
• Planning Meeting 12/17/2002
• Planning Meeting 3/25/2003
• November 2003 Meeting, Energetic Materials Group Sessions at the San Francisco AIChE Meeting
• November 2004 Meeting Energetic Materials Group Sessions at the Austin, TX AIChE Meeting
• October 30 - November 4, 2005: Energetic Materials Group Annual Meeting, AIChE Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio
• April 23-27, 2006 World Congress of Particle Technology - 5, Orlando, FL, USA,
• November 12-17, 2006: Energetic Materials Group Annual Meeting, AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

Significant events

• Web site created 6/2003

• By-Laws approved 6/2004
• Best presentation award initiated 2005
• Changed to elections 2 year cycle, every even year, 10/2006
• Best paper award initiated 2007
  

Officers

10/2004 - 09/2005

• Chair - Bruce Cranford
• Vice Chair - Chester Clark
• Secretary - Chuck Painter
• Treasurer - Jan Puszynski

10/2005-09/2006

• Chair - Chester Clark
• Vice Chair,  Charles Painter
• Secretary, Jerry Salan
• Treasurer. Dilhan M. Kalyon
• Past Chair - Bruce Cranford

10/2006 -09/2008

• Chair - Charles Painter
• Vice Chair - Jerry Salan
• Secretary - Dilhan M. Kalyon
• Treasurer - John Brough
• Past Chair - Chester Clark