Recommended Reading

Take a look at what CEP magazine has lined up for July. This issue features pilot plants and includes features on mastering baffle tray capacity, reducing piloting time and cost, developing screening cost estimates, and much more.

This month, CEP Magazine delves into the world of nanotechnology and its potential for major advances in medicine, productivity, sustainability, and quality of life. Included this month: a downloadable primer to nano-objects, covering common shapes, sizes, and compositions.

Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP) for January, 2011 is entitled Flange Reliability. Features include Computational Science: Enabling Technology Development, Improve Flange Joint Reliability, Capital Spending in the Chemical Industry, and Avoid Natural Gas Piping Hazards.

Henry Ford was a complicated visionary who was, in some respects, ahead of the times, while woefully behind in others. His Fordlandia project in Brazil is an interesting study of Ford as a business man and individual.

This month, CEP covers the topic of sustainability through eco-efficiency analysis and brings you a look at the subjects of chromatography for separating complex mixtures and heat integration for improved energy efficiency.

Stem cells are poised to transform medical treatments for a host of diseases and malignant conditions. Translating stem cell research into clinical therapies, disease models, and drug-screening platforms will require a combination of sound science and innovative chemical and biological engineering.

Have you ever wondered how people manage to think up ideas that transform our world? Maybe some of you have wondered this or have in fact been the originators of some great ideas.

Just when events in the Gulf seemed dire, almost Biblical, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, (an apt Old Testament pun) reported that oil from the BP spill was rapidly breaking down. Many scientists were skeptical-- it smelled like spin. The post-Exxon Valdez consensus was directly challenged.

Being called out on the Reactor blog to describe emotional intelligence took me a

See a more recent salary survey from 2011.

You're probably asking yourself, "I just finished college, why would I want MORE books?"

Because your education just started buck-o!