Leaving Sierra Leone for the first time, 16-year-old Kelvin Doe flew to the US to participate in MIT’s fabled practitioner’s program, where he demo-ed his soldered and duct-taped radio hardware to admiring undergrads.
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November 30th, 2012
Self-Taught Sixteen-Year-Old Inventor Wows MIT
By Kent Harrington | Comments (2)
November 29th, 2012
Massively Parallel Computing and Massive Impacts for ChE
By Phil Westmoreland | Comments (1)In this week’s post about the new Golden Age of ChE, Phil Westmoreland writes about “Massively parallel computing and massive impacts for ChE.”
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November 28th, 2012
WISE Undergraduates Go to Washington
By Margot Berger | Comments (0)Over the summer, two engineering students ventured into the realm of public affairs after AIChE selected them as 2012 WISE (Washington Internships for Science and Engineering) interns.
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November 27th, 2012
Startup Hits Bio-crude Production Milestone
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)After hundreds of millions of dollars in venture capital funding and stock market IPOs, second-generation biofuels still hadn’t moved beyond small pilot plants, despite rosy federal projections. Suddenly that’s all changed – the energy landscape shifting, maybe quaking.
In mid November, KiOR, a second-generation biofuels startup, hit a major industry milestone: its […]
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November 26th, 2012
Advancing Sustainability through Global Collaboration in India
By Emily Frangenberg | Comments (1)Global collaboration and a new generation of chemical engineers equipped with a wide breadth of knowledge will be required to solve India’s sustainability problems. Read more about the challenges at hand and the advancing solutions.
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November 23rd, 2012
Manufacturing Really Matters: Regulatory Pathways of Pharmaceuticals
By Emily Frangenberg | Comments (0)As the director of the Office of Testing and Research (OTR), Dr. Vincent Vilker has a large responsibility assisting the FDA in evaluating, monitoring, and modernizing regulatory pathways and safety standards of pharmaceuticals.
The OTR, within the Office of Pharmaceutical Science, is part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). […]
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November 22nd, 2012
ChEnected’s Quick Guide to Upcoming AIChE Events [Late 2012-Early 2013]
By Margot Berger | Comments (0)Mark your calendars and get detailed information for AIChE, SBE, IFS, and CCPS events from November 2012 through March 2013.
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November 21st, 2012
Science Debunks the Thanksgiving Turkey/Tryptophan Myth
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)After Thanksgiving dinner, most blame a compound in turkey known as tryptophan for making them drowsy, but this short video is here to debunk that canard!
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November 20th, 2012
Vermont’s Cows Sell Power Back to the Grid
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)How do you turn a reserved, soft-spoken New England dairy farmer into a media celebrity? Help her to buy and install a profitable anaerobic digester.
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November 19th, 2012
Harnessing Solar Power for High Temperature Reactions
By Emily Frangenberg | Comments (0)More sunlight strikes the earth in one hour than all of the energy currently consumed on the planet in one year. As the world’s energy consumption rate is projected to double by 2050, and triple by 2100, the sun holds great potential as a sustainable energy source.
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