Continuing Education Conference Spring 2011
| Spring 2011 | Advances in Metal Finishing Hexavalent Chromium and Alternatives | Liz Harriman, TURI. Overview of Cr(+6), or Cr(VI); Its environmental and health effects, uses in surface finishing, alternatives, and discussion. |
| An Overview of the Drug Discovery Process | Daniel F. Liberman, Director HSE. An overview of the process of research and development of drugs. | |
| Audit Tools for TURA EMS | Steve Mahoney, Goodrich Corp. A presentation by Goodrich Corp., producers of hot section turbine parts. The goal is to provide a tool for aspect analysis and show how internal audits and management lead to maintaining an EMS. | |
| Boston Sand and Gravel Green Energy Plan | An overview of business, customers, maintaining size, and logistics examples from BS&G’s history. | |
| Converting From Hex Chrome to Non-Hex Chrome | Coating Systems, Inc. Why to switch from hexchrome from a market perspective, as well as how and what to switch to and how it will compare. | |
| Flow Chemistry | Dan Liberman, Laetitia Martin, Jerome Lang, University of Cambridge. An overview of what flow chemistry is, examples of flow platforms, and how to increase them in scale. | |
| Greening of Medicinal Chemistry | Dan Liberman. The design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use or creation of hazardous substances. | |
| Hazardous Material Process Regulations | Timothee Rodrique, Director of Division of Fire Safety. Looking to regulate process safety in accordance to fire safety. | |
| Hexavalent Chromium Replacements | MacDermid. Examples of replacements for many applications of hexchrome such as acid anodizing, decorative chrome, and hard chrome. | |
| Hexavalent Chromium Uses | MacDermid. Examples of current uses of hexchrome such as hard chrome, decorative chrome, acid anodizing, acid seals, and acid etching. | |
| Inherently Safe Technology | Manuel R. Gomez, CIH Director of Recommendations, CSB. A primer on US Chemical Safety Board, examples of recent work, and where they expect to be in the future. | |
| Introduction to WasteWise | Janet Bowen, U.S. EPA. Overview of Wastewise, a voluntary EPA partnership program. | |
| Management Review | A checksheet for management planning and execution. | |
| Millipore's Energy Efficiency and Renewables | Paul Lukitsch, World Wide Energy Manager , CEM. Describing their sustainability program, energy management program, examples of energy reduction, and how to get started. | |
| Ozone for Cleaning and Sterilization | Akshat Gupta, Biomanufacturing at Umass Lowell. An overview of ozone and its use in cleaning, sterilization, and other applications as well as technologies. | |
| RC Source Reduction | A presentation on reducing waste. | |
| Solid Waste Master Plan | John Fischer, MassDEP. Overview of solid waste management in MA. Drafting plans to reduce solid waste. | |
| TUR in the Pharmaceutical Industry | Presentation on reducing toxics in pharmaceuticals industry. | |
| TURA EMS | Sherri Gaudette, Sr. Enviro. Health and Safety Engineer, TURP. Skyworks. An overview of Skyworks’ products, environmental programs and management systems, and EMS focuse environmental planning. Skyworks is a semiconductor company focused towards wireless communications. |