Baton Rouge ACS Local Section

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Randy Goodman received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1981 from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, LA.  After a 25-year career as a E&C Process Engineer mostly in Refineries and Petrochemical plants, he took a job with the State of Louisiana in 2005 writing Title V Air Permits for Louisiana DEQ for 2 years, and then 2 years at Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals as Region 5 Water and Sewage Engineer for Southwest Louisiana.  Most of his time at the State has been spent at LADOTD first as the Right of Way Permits Engineer, then Standards & Specifications Engineer, and now the Transportation Asset Management Engineer. Randy is a life-time member of National AIChE and has held several leadership positions in the local Baton Rouge Section. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Louisiana. Randy has been crucial to the technical meetings conducted by BR-AIChE. Attendance at Seminars and Chapter Meetings allows area Professional Engineers to maintain La State Licensure. He is responsible for compliance with LAPELS agency rules and for issuing accreditation Certificates. Randy is therefore a significant credit to both BR-AIChE and to the general Engineering Community. ... View more

Prof. Jerry Spivey received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University and his Ph.D. in 1980 from Louisiana State University. After a 20-yr career at the Research Triangle Institute in North Carolina, he returned to LSU and is now the James M. Shivers Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering with an interest in C1 catalysis. One of the most challenging aspects of modern day catalysis is the activation of methane. Conventionally, methane is activated indirectly with oxidizing agents to produce syngas, which then reacts to produce high value hydrocarbons. This process is energy inefficient. A more economic process is the direct one-step activation of methane to form value-added chemicals. The challenge is avoid side reactions, including carbon deposition. His research focuses on both direct and indirect processes, both of which require catalysts. ... View more

Mr. Lorenzo Foster is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana and graduated from LSU with a BS degree in Microbiology with a minor in Chemistry. He has been teaching for 11 years and currently teaches Chemistry I College Prep, Honors, and Chemistry II AP/Dual Enrollment at St. Michael High School in Baton Rouge, LA. Lorenzo started his teaching career here in Baton Rouge in 2010 where he taught chemistry at Capitol High School. Through the years, he has taught hundreds of students and many of them have come back to him after they took their first chemistry course in college and expressed how well prepared they were. He enjoys bringing chemistry to life in his class though ample labs and activities to show them that chemistry is all around us. His love for chemistry was fostered by his high school chemistry teacher and it inspired him to pursue a career as a high school chemistry teacher. ... View more

Dr. Gillian Eggleston received her B.Sc. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from the University of Nottingham, UK, and her Ph.D. in 1989 in Carbohydrate Biophysics from Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK. Since receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Eggleston has worked internationally in the field of carbohydrates and industrial sugar and bioproducts processing. In 2018, Dr. Eggleston became the Director of the Audubon Sugar Institute, Louisiana State University Agricultural Center. Accomplishments include elucidation of the biochemical and physical processes leading to sugar crop deterioration, juice clarification, industrial enzyme applications and sugar losses, effects of extraneous sugarcane matter on processing, food authentication, and helping to establish a new, large-scale sweet sorghum processing industry in the USA. Her research has resulted in over 396 publications (6 books, 169 peer reviewed journal papers and book chapters, 84 symposia and conference proceedings, 137 abstracts). Her major scientific and commercial accomplishments are reflected in 34 national and international awards, including five Sugar Industry Technologists (International) Awards, three Federal Laboratory Consortium National Technology Transfer Awards, the South African Society of Sugar Technologists Talbot-Crosbie Award, the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists’ Maurice Paturau Award, the early and senior USDA-Mid South Area Scientist Awards, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Melville L. Wolfrom Award and recognition as an ACS Fellow. Before that she led a multi-million dollar research group focusing on sugar crop processing in addition to serving on a Detail as the Director of the Southern Regional Research Center in 2016. During her career, she has had numerous accomplishments with her research having had major commercial and scientific impact in the worldwide sugar and related industries. Her major scientific and commercial accomplishments are reflected in 34 national and international awards, including five Sugar Industry Technologists (International) Awards, three Federal Laboratory Consortium National Technology Transfer Awards, the South African Society of Sugar Technologists Talbot-Crosbie Award, the International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists’ Maurice Paturau Award, the early and senior USDA-Mid South Area Scientist Awards, the American Chemical Society (ACS) Melville L. Wolfrom Award. She is also an ACS Fellow. Dr. Eggleston frequently gives international KeyNote, plenary, and workshop presentations, and consults extensively worldwide, within her field of industrial processing of sugarcane, sugar beet, and sweet sorghum, and even beyond in areas such as pharmaceuticals, food and beverages, and bioenergy. Dr. Eggleston has organized numerous scientific symposia and international conferences. She has mentored young and older scientists as well as visiting scientists, post-doctorates, and graduates from all over the world, and served as external reviewer for six PhD degrees. ... View more