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Chemical Engineers at The Insitute of Environmental and Human Health at Texas Tech University have developed a contamination wipe, Fibertect, made of non-woven cotton and a carbon core that has thus far been used as part of decontamination kits for removing chemical and biological warfare agents. Texas Tech claims that […]
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What is Dilbert like in therapy?
DILBERT: © Scott Adams / Dist. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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Most water treatment plants use chlorine to clean tapwater. The main drawback to this is that the process produces carcinogens. The chlorine isn’t totally effective either, leaving parasites like Giarrdia and Cryptosporidium unaffected by […]
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Hello from the Travel Desk at the Reactor. I am perpetually on the road for work and would like to share some of the ‘engineering’ sights I have seen. While you won’t find many of these sights on a typical “Must-See” list, I think they are […]
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See a more recent salary survey from 2011.
After 4 Years of Learning, the Payoff is Here!
Good news for the 2010 chemical engineering graduates! According to payscale.com, your new degree was the best choice in terms of having the highest immediate payoff, with a starting median salary of $65,700.
The payscale.com salary […]
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AIChE co-sponsored the 6th National Sustainable Design Expo held during Earth Week on the weekend of April 24-25. The expo celebrated both the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The expo provided a diverse forum for businesses, governments, and nonprofits […]
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I literally stumbled upon this video–Chemical Party–while using ChEnected’s Stumble Upon account. It’s a very clever and funny video created by Marie Curie Actions, a site created by the European Commission on Research, to promote research careers to young people. Here they talk about their ITN, Initial Training Networks, which […]
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Welcome to our forth interview in the YP ChEnectees of AIChE Spring 2010 series. AIChE is an organization that is headquartered in the U.S. but also one that reaches many different parts of the world. During the first day of AIChE’s Spring meeting in San Antonio, I caught up with […]
Read the rest of this entry »The second contestant of the SW regional AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition. Video courtesy of Youtube user Mattzoball. Check out our related post Chem-E-Car. Safer by Design.
Read the rest of this entry »The first contestant of the AIChE 2010 SW Regional Chem-E-Car Competion was the Cougalac—a 26lb car named after a gas gulping relative of a similar name—and winner of the SW regional AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition. Video courtesy of Youtube user Mattzoball. Check out our related post Chem-E-Car. Safer by Design.
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who started Paypal and is now famous as Facebook's first, far-sighted investor, announced his next group of 20 young Thiel Fellows, who will each receive $100,000 to pursue personal technology projects, while skipping traditional college. This hefty stiped carries a rigorous demand: quickly learn entrepreneurship from the ground up, and begin to build the new and innovative companies of the future.
Watch a video in the panel at right about the program's first class in 2011.
Opting for tech bootcamp, this third group of "20 Under 20" Thiel Fellows includes Christopher Walker, who dropped out of college to form a software company, and Zach Hamed, a Harvard junior who's leaving to work on education software. Their iconoclastism reflects Thiel's contrarian opinion of higher education as an over-priced bubble, far away from necessary networks of angel investors and mentors.
For two years, instead of attending college, each Thiel Fellow is immediately plugged into the Foundation’s network of entrepreneurs and investors. This supportive environment will nourish endeavors spanning robotics through cyberdefense, neuroscience, and fashion.
Peter Thiel also reflected on past classes in a recent press release, “When we created the fellowship more than two years ago, our intention was to help people learn and accomplish more than they might have. They exceeded our expectations, and proved that qualities like intellectual curiosity and grit are more important than a degree in determining success in life.”
