CEP: November 2010 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...
CEP: October 2010 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
CEP: September 2010 My first exposure to bioengineering was watching The Six Million Dollar Man on television as a teenager.
CEP: August 2010 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."...
CEP: July 2010 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.
CEP: June 2010 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.
CEP: May 2010 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.
CEP: April 2010 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...
CEP: March 2010 Want to have a really good time with your AIChE membership? Have we got an opportunity for you! For many members - from students to emeritus members - some of the best fun to be had in AIChE involves the annual Chem-E-Car Competition series...
CEP: February 2010 That's not a typo. ChEnected - Where Chemical Engineers Mix It Up - is AIChE's new online community that is set to launch at the end of this month...
CEP: January 2010 Chemical engineering has undergone a tremendous evolution since AIChE was founded in 1908, as the November 2008 Centennial Celebration issue of CEP so vividly illustrated...
CEP: December 2009 I once took my car to have the muffler replaced and, when I returned to pick it up, I found that the mechanic had set the car on fire. A trainee had started to remove the old muffler with a blowtorch...