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The job picture is looking a lot brighter for 2011—the best in three years. According to the latest survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), employers plan to hire 19.3% more grads than in 2010.
There’s also good news regarding […]
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Dilbert is faced with a new version of an all too familiar social dilemma.
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Peter Thiel thinks big. He co-founded PayPal, and later became Facebook’s first outside investor and behind-the-scenes mentor. Now he’s focused on dealing with what he sees as a lack of innovation in the U.S.
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The financial crisis has altered people’s thinking about retirement. This report shows a shift in the responsibility of managing retirement plans from employer to employee. Pensions are already starting to be known as a thing of the past in many industries.
AIChE’s biennial salary survey will be out in the June […]
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Ever wonder how a prescription drug comes into being? This great video, which was created for exhibit at Paris’s main science museum “Cité des sciences et de l’industrie,” explains the process. The video is in French but with English subtitles and it features some great animation, somewhat reminiscent of the […]
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In the continuing series, we bring you more answers to questions about Fukushima and nuclear energy, from AIChE’s Nuclear Engineering Division (NED).
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Researchers at Brown University have used carbon nanotubes to create a patch that can regenerate heart tissue in the lab, according to a report in Technology Review. The patch is formed of chains of carbon atoms that fold onto themselves to create a tube that is capable of conducting electricity and mimics the surface of natural tissue.
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Researchers, high-tech firms, and manufacturers around the world have big hopes for the extraordinary material known as graphene. Just last year, the material earned […]
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In the continuing series, we bring you more answers to your questions about Fukushima and nuclear energy, from AIChE’s Nuclear Engineering Division (NED).
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Researchers at BASF have turned to nanotechnology to devise a new technique that allows for faster production of precast concrete building components. The faster fabrication, which results from greatly reduced hardening times, also means lower carbon emissions, since no heat is needed to accelerate the hardening process. By avoiding the […]
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Since 2007, startup Opower has quickly become a leader in energy efficiency - growing from offering simple paper-based energy reports into a full-spectrum, SAAS (software as a service) residential efficiency player, according to greentechmedia.
With mobile apps, a big data business and a thermostat partnership with Honeywell, Opower's got the residential energy landscape covered. How has the company persuaded consumers to reduce their energy use and save $250 million since 2007?
Alex Laskey, Opower's co-founder, explains the simple idea: behavioral science used to created peer pressure. In this TED2013 talk, he explains that “For the last five years, we’ve been running the largest behavioral science experiment in the world.” It's worked. In January, the company achieved a milestone: achieving two terawatt hours of energy savings — enough to take all the homes in a city the size of Sacramento off the electric grid for a year.
