This article reviews the main steps involved in quantitative risk analysis (QRA). It explains the basics of QRA, how to conduct a QRA, how to interpret QRA results, and how to use QRA to manage and reduce risks.

This special section will include four articles related to the field of fuel cells.
1. Fuel cell national program and industry overview
2. Fuel cell industry applications
3. Solid-oxide fuel cell research
4. Fuel cell automotive comparison to other vehicle systems

Are you preparing to change jobs? If you haven’t interviewed in several years, your skills are probably rusty. This column will share tips and advice for key interview techniques you need to get hired....

One misconception is that patent infringement can only occur during the term of the patent. True, the patent owner must wait until the patent issues before asserting it against infringers, but in some cases the patent owner’s remedies can include monetary damages for infringement occurring...

A growing trend in designing fire protection systems is to base these systems on possible scenarios rather than basic code requirements. This approach provides a better balance of passive and active fire controls.

The article begins with a review of a number of current fire protection...

Instead of treating CO2 as waste, conversion technologies could turn CO2 into valuable chemicals. This article provides an overview of the state of the carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies and then discusses CO2 conversion technologies in more depth. The following topics will be...

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS BEING POSTPONED

This article explains how to optmize heat-transfer fluid performance through system design. It covers:
• basic system configuration
• compatibility of materials
• component selection
• fluid attributes...

Society for Biological Engineering (SBE) Supplement
Based in part on the Technology Challenges and Opportunities in Commercializing Industrial Biotechnology Workshop held in Sept. 2015

1. Introduction: Outlook for industrial biotechnology, with an emphasis on trends,...