their arguments and opinions. Accordingly, they invited fifty men prominent in the chemical profession (including men that opposed the forming of a new society) to meet on January 18, 1908. Twenty-one men attended the meeting and fourteen other expressed their views in letters. After much discussion, the meeting ended without reaching a definitive decision. However, it was agreed to have a mail vote (on whether or not to form a chemical engineering society) after a complete stenographic report of the meeting was printed and sent to the fifty men that had been invited to the meeting. The mail vote resulted in 36 replies of which 22 were in the affirmative, 6 were negative, and 8 were neutral. Based on those voting results, the organizing committee of six called for a full-fledged organizational meeting to be held in Philadelphia on June 22, 1908. Meanwhile, the committee of six drafted a proposed constitution to be presented at that meeting. That meeting resulted in the official formation of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, adoption of a constitution, and the election of Samuel P. Sadtler as the first president of the Institute. There were 40 charter members: Acheson, E.G. Adamson, G.P. Allen, L.E. Alexander, J. Barton, G.E. Bassett, W.H. Bement, A. Booth, W.M. Brown, H. F. Camp, J.M. Catlin, C.A. Dannerth, F. Dow, Allan W. Frerich, F.W. Grosvenor, W.M. Gudeman, E. Haanel, E. Heath, G. M. Hollick, H. Horn, D.W. Hunicke, H.A. Ingalls, W.R. Kaufman, H.M. Langmuir, A.C. Mason, W.P. McKenna, C.F. Meade, R.K. Miller, A.L. Olney, Lewis A. Olsen, J.C. Reese, C.L. Renaud, H.S. Reuter, Ludwig Robertson, A. Sadtler, S.P. Smith, Thorn Trautwein, A.P. Wesson, D. Whitfield, J.E. Weichmann, F.G. Technical divisions and forums Divisions and forums provide technical information, programming for AIChE’s technical meetings, and awards and recognition to outstanding chemical engineers in their area of expertise. They also provide opportunities for affiliation with top engineers in the general disciplines as well as in emerging fields like biotechnology and sustainability. This is a list of the divisions and forums: Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (CRE) Computational Molecular Science & Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) Computing & Systems Technology Division (CAST) Education Division (EDU) Environmental Division (ENV) Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division (FP&BE) Forest Products Division (FP) Fuels & Petrochemicals Division (F&P) Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD) Nanoscale Science Engineering Forum (NSEF) North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) Nuclear Engineering Division (NE) Particle Technology