What will you be doing on Thursday, April 22? At CEP, our critical-path activity will be performing a final on-screen check of the pages that will become the May issue. But we will also make time to celebrate Earth Day. I hope you will, too...
Nearly 3,000 student members of AIChE expect to graduate this year (many this month, some in December), and we want to welcome them to the profession with a few words of wisdom.
In this issue's cover story (pp. 23-27), retired energy executive and Princeton Univ. industrial lecturer Vern Weekman gazes into a proverbial crystal ball to get a glimpse of society's energy mix in the year 2050.
AIChE's international programs are growing. There are several reasons for this expansion of effort outside the United States. First, the strength of the U.S.
Vernon Law, a retired major league baseball pitcher who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1950s and '60s, said, "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test fi rst, the lesson afterward."...
You've probably heard some of the jokes about engineers - the engineer who figures out the problem with the guillotine before it's his turn to be executed; the engineer who puts the talking frog in her purse instead of kissing it because she doesn
The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2011 the International Year of Chemistry (IYC 2011), a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of people everywhere...
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.
In January, read about improving flange joint reliability, computational science and enabling technology development, capital spending in the chemical industry, and avoiding natural gas piping hazards.