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Welcome to Chemical Engineering Progress
The salary survey results are in. Go to page 22 to see how you stack up against your peers. The online version contains more detailed information than the print version. This include extra data on salaries according to specific metropolitan areas. Other additions include salary data on self-employed individuals, as well as income vs. company size.
August 2005 Vol. 101, No. 8
In This Issue
Cover Story
AIChE 2005 Employment & Salary Survey Results: How Competitive Is Your Compensation?
In 2005, the reported median salary of $92,150 is up 3.9% from last year. Chemical engineering salaries are also slightly ahead of their collective engineering peers, and furthermore, starting-salary offers are at an all-time high of $54,256. This online version contains additional data that was not published in the print version.
Rita D'Aquino
Environmental Management
Targeting Material Reuse via Property Integration
Material reuse is often governed by the functionalities of the process streams. This new property-based technique creates a pinch diagram that identifies targets for the minimum use of fresh resources and waste discharge, and the maximum integration of process streams and units.
Mahmoud M. El-Halwagi - Vasiliki Kazantzi -
Heat Transfer
Evaluate Flow and Heat Transfer in Agitated Jackets
Use these correlations to compute swirl flowrate and jacket heat-transfer coefficients as functions of agitation nozzle flow.
John Garvin -
Fluids/Solids Handling
A Six Sigma Approach to Evaluating Vacuum Filtration Technologies
The appropriate testing procedures help direct the selection of vacuum filtration equipment and ensure optimum equipment operation.
Barry A. Perlmutter -
Career Catalyst
To Engineer or Not? That is the Question
The more important question is “how much to engineer?” Use this technique to evaluate the level of engineering effort required, and justified, for a project.
Edward Yannul