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Clem McKown - Head Mentor FRC Team 1640
I have been a mentor for FRC Team 1640 starting with the 2006 (Aim High) season. Presently, I serve as Head Mentor for the FRC Team and Chairman of Downingtown Area Robotics Steering Committee.
Key competencies which I bring to FRC are Project Management, Team Leadership, Mechanical Design and CAD skills.
For my day-job, I am Director Business Development - Thiochemicals for Arkema, Inc., based in Philadelphia PA. I have worked for Arkema (and predecessor companies) since 1985, starting as a Process (Chemical) Engineer. My career in Arkema has been focused on developing new products and businesses, both from a technology and business perspective. I have a passion for creating new products and businesses. Arkema has graciously allowed me to pursue this passion.
I studied Chemistry at SUNY @ Stony Brook and Chemical Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark NJ). More recently, I've completed the Technology Management Program at CalTech's Industrial Relations Center.
I have been granted (7) Patents, all associated (in some way) with atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) coatings on glass. I was a leader in the develpment of Arkema's successful flat glass coatings business. The business is based on applying thin, energy-saving, low emissivity (Certincoat®) ceramic coatings to glass. The coating process is integrated into the the glass manufacturing process. Low emissivity coated glass can reduce building's heating and cooling energy requirements by more than 30% vis-à-vis uncoated glass.
From 1994 to 2005, I served on the Organizing Committee of the International Conference on Coatings on Glass, Co-chairing the atmospheric-pressure sessions.
In 1994, received the Elf Innovation Award from Elf Aquitaine S.A. (Parent company of Elf Atochem, an Arkema predecessor company).
In 2004, I was awarded the Yanzhou Friendship Award from the Hebei Provincial Government, Peoples Republic of China.
I am currently leading the development of Paladin®, a pre-plant soil fumigant which effectively replaces methyl bromide in many applications. Methyl bromide is a Ozone Depleting Chemical banned under the Montreal Protocol, which remains in use due to absence of effective substitutes. Paladin is dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), a chemical produced naturally as part of the atmosphere's sulfur cycle and utilized by allium (onions, garlic) and brassicaceae (cabbage, broccolli, radishes, mustard, horseradish,...) to control predation. DMDS is contained naturally in many foods and is an approved food additive in both the US and Europe. Paladin® was granted registration in the US and Israel in 2010.
This year, the Paladin Team received Arkema Inc's Chairman's Award and Arkema's 2011 Innovation Award for the successful registration of Paladin® and launch of this new business. Arkema awards this to only one team per year. A documentary was produced for (French) television highlighting this innovation.
mài kāng wēi (迈康威) is my given Chinese name, which I have used here as my user name. During the 2003-4 period, I worked more than a year in Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), China.
Hobbies are photography, bicycling and (of course) mentoring robotics. I've got quite useful language skills in German and Mandarin. I am deperately working to learn French.
I am the Father of three daughters who have studied in the Downingtown District. All three have particpated in robotics. My eldest, Amber, together with Paul Sabatino, brought me into robotics. I'm afraid I'm hooked now.
Robots
Where I've Been (International)
- China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Qinhuangdao, Hangzhou, Qingdao, Kunming, Xian, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Dalian, Shijiazhuang, Shaoxing, Shanhaiguan, Beidaihe, Jin City, Shantou, Dongshandao, Xiamen)
- France (Paris, Lyon, Pau, Limoges, Nîmes, Compiègne, Lourdes, Chambord, Bordeaux, Saint-Emilion, Sauternes, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, Oloron-Ste-Marie, Les Baux, Glanum)
- Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Matsuzaka City, Nara, Kobe, Himiji, Osaka, Nagoya)
- The Netherlands (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Maastricht, Eindhoven, Kinderdijk, Vlissingen, Middelburg, Goes, Bergen-op-Zoom, Zierikzee, Arnhem)
- Germany (Düsseldorf, Essen, Braunschwieg, Saarbrücken, Köln, Frankfurt-am-Main, Hamburg, Mainz, Kronach)
- South Korea (Seoul, Inchon, Pusan, Suwon, Yoju, Koje Island, Ulsan)
- Belgium (Brussels, Charleroi, Bruges, Antwerp)
- Malaysia (Johor Bahru, Penang)
- Australia (Melbourne, Adelaide)
- Turkey (Istanbul, Antalya)
- Spain (Barcelona)
- Singapore
- Luxembourg
- Russia (Moscow)
- United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Harrogate, Yorkshire Downs)
- Austria (Vienna)
- Denmark (Copenhagen)
- Norway
- Finland (Helsinki, Tampere)
- Portugal
- Italy
- Switzerland
- Thailand (Bangkok)
- Indonesia (Jakarta)
- Israel
- South Africa
- Canada
- Mexico
- Brazil
- Argentina
- Venezuela
- Bahamas
- Lebanon
- Kenya
Where I've Been (U.S.)
- New York - where I grew up
- New Jersey - lived 11 years here
- Pennsylvania - where I live
- Vermont
- New Hampshire
- Connecticut
- Rhode Island
- Massachusetts
- Maryland
- Virginia
- West Virginia
- Kentucky
- Tennessee
- North Carolina
- South Carolina
- Georgia
- Florida
- Alabama
- Louisiana
- Texas
- Oklahoma
- California
- Oregon
- Washington
- Idaho
- Hawaii
- Ohio
- Michigan
- Wisconsin
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Nevada
- Colorado
- Arizona
- Delaware
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Utah
- Missouri
- Minnesota
- District of Columbia
