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Arun Majumdar, ARPA-E’s Director, gave the Keynote speech at the third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, where key players from across the energy ecosystem came together to share ideas for developing and deploying the next generation of clean energy technologies.
Although over 180 companies and universities have received ARPA-E grants, Majumdar […]
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Pyromaniacs at UMass Amherst have been on fire lately. In January, George Huber, associate professor of chemical engineering, using non-food biomass, a new catalyst and fast pyrolysis, boosted the yield for five key chemical industry building blocks by 40 percent. Queuing up quickly in February, Paul Dauenhauer, a prolific UMass chemical engineering […]
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AIChE held its 2012 Pacific Northwest Student Regional Conference at the University of Idaho (U of I) in Moscow the weekend of Friday, April 27. The event included a student paper competition and a regional ChemE Car competition, among other activities.
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In this TEDx Talk, Spitz talks about the renaissance in U.S. manufacturing and the role chemical engineers play it in.
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Smart bet, or risky move? Low natural gas prices have been good for Dow Chemical, but some analysts wonder if the boom will lead to an eventual sales bust.
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Chemical engineering students from the University of Washington and the University of Idaho competed in the ChemE-car competition at the AIChE Pacific Northwest Regional Student Conference in Moscow, ID, on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Read on for photos and videos.
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This summer, AIChE is launching a new program to empower young professionals to affect the direction of the chemical engineering profession. It will provide opportunities in advocacy/policy work, service projects in the developing world, outreach, and more. Read on for more details.
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The hotel I am staying at in Thailand started a hydroponic garden, turning a previously unused area into productive one. While being “green” is among their objectives, this project is also a real measure of their operational philosophy of supplying quality products in a natural way.
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During AIChE’s Spring Meeting in Houston, TX, eight meeting attendees visited Booker T. Washington High School to speak with students about chemical engineering. Booker T. Washington is a magnet school for the engineering professions in the Houston Independent School District.
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With support of Petrobras, the 4th edition of CCPS Latin American Process Safety Conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, July 3-5, 2012 with “Operational Discipline – Focusing on the Fundamental” as the theme.
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Arun Majumdar, ARPA-E's Director, gave the Keynote speech at the third annual ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, where key players from across the energy ecosystem came together to share ideas for developing and deploying the next generation of clean energy technologies.
Although over 180 companies and universities have received ARPA-E grants, Majumdar highlighted eight companies currently developing disruptive technologies that, if successful, could create entirely new industries, ranging from advanced biofuels and lithium-ion batteries to grid storage and carbon capture.
Check out the video in the panel at the right. To speed ahead to specific subjets see the following:
The Featured YP for May is Lane Daley. Learn more about her background, her advice to other young professionals, and what she’d be doing if she hadn’t chosen to study chemical engineering. More
