Career Advice for YPs and Students

Patent Fundamentals for Engineers

AIChE Webinar
May 5, 2009
Joseph P. Hamilton, Esq.

Ever wonder what a patent looks like, what rights are conveyed by a patent, or how your actions can bar any right to obtain patent protection for your invention?

Retirement Planning for Young Engineers

AIChE Webinar
Mar 24, 2009
Larry N. Grogan

Retirement may sound like a world away from where you are now, but there are some important steps that you should be taking to make your retirement everything you envision it to be.

Career Strategies for Young Professionals

AIChE Webinar
Dec 9, 2008
Wendy Young Reed

Gone are the days when you will work for the same company for your entire career. It now falls to you to forge your own path! What can you do early in your career to get a head start?

How the Chemical Engineer Will Shape the 21st Century

AIChE Webinar
Dec 2, 2008
Partha Ghosh

The current global economic meltdown, along with imbalances in energy ecology and equity, imply that the fundamental backbone of the global industrial world needs reinventing.

Job Hunting Strategies

AIChE Webinar
Sep 9, 2008
Ranil Wickramasinghe

Searching for a job can be frustrating and time consuming. Finding the ideal job depends on your situation, geographical preferences, personality, and many other things.

Unlikely Victory: How General Electric Succeeded in the Chemical Industry

September, 2000
Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U.S. chemical producers—with 1998 sales of $6.6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee...

Use LinkedIn to Advance Your Career

March
2012
Career Catalyst
Loraine Kasprzak
LinkedIn - the social media tool most often used by professionals - allows you to establish an online presence, connect with others, and find business and job opportunities.

CEP: YPOV - Engineering Cyber Security

July
2012
YPOV
Arjun Gopalratnam
Between March and April 2010, a powerful but seemingly limited computer worm, now referred to as Stuxnet, infected computers around the world, beginning in Iran and spreading to Indonesia and India. A recently published book uncovers findings on the origin of the worm and raises concerns that are relevant to chemical engineers everywhere.

CEP: YPOV Your Career as a Volunteer

March
2013
YPOV
Arjun Gopalratnam
To surpass the merely adequate, and to accomplish something noteworthy, requires one to take on tasks that are unstated and to solve problems that others may not have even noticed. Depending on the structure of your work environment, there may be...

Profiles of Success

August
2003
Special Section
See how these six high-level women in industry and academia got where they are today and what it's like to be a successful woman in a male-dominated field.

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