They came for the pizza, they left “blown away”, Dr. Kelly Thomas visits the American Institute of Chemical Engineering Chapter at UTSA

Dr. Kelly Thomas recently visited the American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) student chapter at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to share some of his experience gained from over 30 years of leading explosion hazard analyses and incident investigations for refineries, chemical processing plants, offshore oil production platforms, and other industrial facilities.

Kelly’s presentation focused on helping the students gain an understanding of the hazards posed at facilities that handle explosive, flammable, and toxic materials including high consequence incidents. Kelly comments that his presentation was aimed to increase the students’ commitment to process safety.

We send a special thanks to Samantha Strahan, President of the UTSA AIChE Student Chapter, for helping to organize this valuable opportunity.

Our team is honored to actively provide knowledge sharing opportunities, not only with students, but with the industry. Take advantage of resources developed from our team’s collective experience.

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