Bob Johnson to Speak at Ohio U’s Student Chapter of AIChE
Mr. Robert W. (Bob) Johnson, an author and a national leader in the Safety & Health Division of AIChE, has agreed to
come and speak to the OU Student Section on Wednesday, October 18th at 4 PM in Stocker 106.
Mr. Johnson’s presentation will weave all these things together:
§ Chemical plant security against terrorists
§ How to win a $500 Safety & Health Division award
§ Why becoming a student member of AIChE is the best deal in town
§ Let’s find out how good you are at understanding chemical reactivity hazards
§ What good stuff Ohio University has as a member of SACHE
About Mr. Johnson.
After earning his BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from Purdue and marrying his college sweetheart, Bob Johnson took a job at a Hercules plant that made solid rocket propellant motors. It was a good place to learn the technical and analytical aspects of safety. He got charged up there (literally, with a Van de Graaf generator) and gathered data for his first published paper, “Ignition of Flammable Vapors by Human Electrostatic Discharge.”
He then got to work in large organizations (Du Pont and Battelle) before going to the other extreme and joining a three-person consultancy in Columbus, where he is now President.
Mr. Johnson has spent his entire career in loss prevention engineering. He is primary author of two CCPS books, and has taught AIChE Continuing Education courses on vapor release mitigation, HAZOP studies, and chemical reactivity. Bob also has been involved in academic activities, being on the CCPS SACHE committee, preparing a web-based SACHE instructional module on chemical reactivity hazards, and teaching loss prevention topics to senior chemical engineering students at the University of Cincinnati.
He has also been a Director of AIChE’s Safety & Health Division, and has chaired the annual Loss Prevention Symposium. He earned the Bill Doyle Award for best paper at the Symposium, and also won a contest to design a new Symposium logo.
Bob and his wife Sharon have three sons and two daughters, who have diverse majors of computer engineering, plant biology/microbiology, neuroscience, cosmetology, and multimedia technology/theater production. Bob enjoys being a “gentleman farmer” on his six-acre property outside Plain City, Ohio. His family has taken camping vacations as far away as Alaska.
last updated October 5, 2006