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The left engine of a commercial airliner flying from New York City to Dallas failed on April 17, 2018 over eastern Pennsylvania. Fragments of the engine inlet and cowling ( Image 1 ) struck the wing ( Image 2 ) and fuselage, causing significant...
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2018
Materials and Chemicals Acrylates Are Suitable for Food Packaging Applications Designed for use in indirect food contact applications, these four low-migration (LM) acrylate monomers and oligomers comply with Swiss Ordinance, Nestlé Guidance Notes...
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2018
2018 Board of Directors’ and Institute Awards To be Presented at the Annual Meeting’s Honors Ceremony, Pittsburgh AIChE will honor some of chemical engineering’s foremost practitioners, researchers, and educators with the presentation of the 2018...
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In recent decades, insects have become more resistant to pesticides. As resistance becomes more widespread, the agricultural biotechnology sector has sought viable alternatives to curtail the huge economic losses associated with insect pests. One of these alternative approaches, called RNA interference (RNAi), could be used to kill pests by silencing genes that are critical for their survival.
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Entrepreneurship is not for wimps — the hours are long, pay is often irregular, vacations are short or nonexistent, and stress levels are high. Dedication to your “great idea” may be to the detriment of your relationships and, ultimately, that idea...
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2018
MATLAB: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, 5 th Edition Stormy Attaway, Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, U.K., $64.95, 626 pages, Aug. 2018, ISBN: 978-0-12815-479-3 Chemical engineers use MATLAB for a variety of applications...
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2018
Many industrial processes and consumer products involve systems containing multiple liquid and solid phases — including emulsions, suspensions, suspo-emulsions, solid/liquid gels, and others. These systems are finding a place in the synthesis of new...
October
2018

2018 Computing Practice Award

2018 David Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education

Martha Grover

Martha Grover is a Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech.  She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech.  She joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2002, and received an NSF CAREER award in 2004.  In 2011 she received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE.  Her research program is dedicated to understanding, modeling, and engineering the self-...Read more

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