Professional Development

The biennial salary survey asked chemical engineers about career prospects and employment trends, with varied findings.

Chemical engineer Lixin Zhou Lightner shares with us how she successfully coped with starting a family, amidst the pressures of a demanding chemical engineering career.

Whether you're looking for inspiration or just a little downtime between tasks, here are some great TED Talk moments to enrich your day.

In recognition of the work that academic faculty do to prepare the next generation of chemical engineers, AIChE is partnering with industry leaders to provide free faculty workshops in process safe

With AIChE's Member-Get-a-Member-Program, you can be a force that helps build a global community of chemical engineers.

Join the AIChE Virtual Local Section (VLS) Thursday, May 25 at 9PM EDT for its latest meeting, which will feature the topic of process safety leadership. 

It’s impossible to learn everything you need to know for your career in a four-year undergraduate program.

No matter how groundbreaking the science, every new idea has to pass one all-important hurdle before it can find true success.

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May 4th, 2017, 12 TO 4 PM EDT With Student Hour 3 TO 4 PM EDT

Lets face it: college is expensive. The AIChE scholarships listed below recognize academic accomplishments, student chapter involvement, and diversity.

We recently sat down with Professional Engineer and AIChE member Donn

This month: a special feature on becoming a better writer, which anyone can read in full online.

Confronting or being confronted by a coworker, friend, relative, acquaintance, etc. about an issue or point of contention is undeniably difficult.

While attending the 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting & 13th Global Congress o

I recently caught up with Leo Chiang, meeting program co-chair and Big Data Analytics Topical Conference chair for the&nbs

Take advantage of Excel's Iterative Solver to make your spreadsheet more useful and reliable.

This month's CEP Magazine looks at managing a healthy and enjoyable work-life balance, along with features on safely servicing relief devices and on improving production scheduling for increased energy efficiency, among many other topics.

We caught up with David Breslauer, PhD, of Bolt Threads. David is the chief scientific officer and co-founder of Bolt Threads, a young company that is working to create next-generati

Forget copying and pasting calculation results to build a case study—there's a better way with Excel's Data Table tool.

In this video we look at the balance sheet, one of the three key financial statements.

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In this video, we look at in the income statement, an essential to anyone managing a business or large-scale project.

We look at more pointers to manage units and explain why it's best to keep unit conversion factors outside of formulas.

With a surging economy and corporations scrambling to find enough technologists, Houston created its own STEM graduates, by starting the Energy Institute.

If hearing true, personal stories about science (often both funny and touching) excites you, then The Story Collider's real-life monologues about the unexpected ways in which people end up in science will resonate with you and perhaps remind you of your own journey.

Miles C. Barr, who recently received his PhD in chemical engineering from MIT, has just been awarded the prestigious $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for developing an innovative solar technology. His innovation is a new way to print solar cells directly onto a variety of surfaces, such as paper.

There are plenty of factors to consider when looking at a career in chemical engineering, including job opportunities and salaries, but perhaps the most important is: what will the job really be li

Having a PhD does not mean you have to spend your whole career working in research. Experienced attendees discussed how they overcame the stereotype that PhDs are research workers and moved into leadership roles in industry. A Q&A session addressed career planning issues that new PhDs should consider when starting out in industry.

I captured some highlights of this session in the following videos:

The cash flow statement is one of three vital financial statements anyone running a business or large project should understand.

In the second installment of this series, we look at the frequently used Excel techniques of selecting, copying, and moving. Simple slip-ups in these common Excel operations can open your work up to major errors, but master them, and you can gain speed, efficiency, and more dependable spreadsheet calculations.

If having no experience is keeping you from getting experience, use these three tips to break the cycle and land the job or internship you want.

Applying to doctoral programs can seem like a daunting task. But doing your research and staying organized can help you earn an acceptance letter from a quality school.

Over the last few years, one of our most popular series has been Excelling With Excel, which takes a look at some incredibly use

Watch 2015 WISE intern Jami Summey-Rice interview the 2016 WISE interns about their projects and experiences.

Tomas Wesley Green from the University of Kansas used his WISE internship in Washington to study how agricultural resources can contribute to the energy supply and bioeconomy. He looked a

In 2014, AIChE sponsored three students to take part in WISE Internships in Washington, DC.