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One morning this week, I heard an interesting but disheartening story on the BBC Radio. The story was called “Famous female scientists are unknown to UK public.
A survey, organised by the Royal Society, revealed that 90% of 18-24 year-olds could not name a female […]
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Tools and Tips for Successful Management and Leadership Series
As an effective leader, you know that you will only succeed, and the business objectives will only be accomplished, if your team is successful. Their and your success or failure is “joined at the hip.” Thus, a major portion of your management effort […]
Imagine you’re on a backpacking trip high atop the Sierra Nevadas. You were dying to test out your amateur photography skills but in the rush of getting ready for the trip, you forgot to charge the camera’s battery.
Now you’ll have to ask someone else to share their photos, but they won’t be as good as yours. And they may not even get around to sending them to you. But wait…you did bring that Mountain Dew!
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Are you hiring a new senior engineer?
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As the summer winds down, how did you enjoy the season? Maybe a trip to the beach for a swim, a run through the sprinkler, or maybe just relaxing with a cold glass of water? Rapidly these activities are […]
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Gizmodo, a tech product website, previewed a product which revolutionizes research brainstorming sessions. In the past, concepts and ideas all ended up on a dry erase board– new thoughts eventually erasing some of the old. Once you had the final concept, the process of discovery, some of those intermediate creative […]
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Our consciousness and instincts constantly push us to learn more about ourselves and others. After all, maintaining self awareness is an important quality of a good leader. In attempts to better understand ourselves, society has developed multiple ways to classify people in a handful of categories. And I think we’ve […]
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Innovation in Action: Virtual AIChE Section Offering
Local sections are the backbone of AIChE. However, not everyone is able to attend a local section meeting. If you can’t attend an AIChE local section meeting because there is no local section within a 60 minute drive or the closest local […]
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With a Bit of Smoke, a Few Mirrors and a Degree in Hieroglyphics,
Anyone Can Learn to Read a P&ID. This is Part 1 of a five-part series.
Part 1 – Introduction
Engineers love to draw. Not necessarily in an artistic sense of the word, although beauty is, as they say, in […]
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.”
