To craft the astounding variety of modern beers, today’s chemical engineers integrate the age-old and practical with science and whole-system thinking.
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May 28th, 2013
Women in Chemical Technology: Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
By Margot Berger | Comments (0)Paula Hammond is a chemical engineer and professor at MIT who has helped to develop various nanotechnologies that have benefit cancer research and the U.S. armed forces.
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May 23rd, 2013
Tar Sands CO2 Emissions Could Feed Algae Biofuel
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)Canada is betting on carbon capture and storage (CCS) to reduce the environmental footprint associated with making fuel from oil sands, but one of the country’s largest oil-sands producers is building an algae bioreactor to recycle CO2 to produce biofuels and other products such as fertilizer.
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May 15th, 2013
Arsenic: “King of Poisons” in Food and Water
By Fatima Enam | Comments (0)For centuries, arsenic has been known to be a classic poison, causing deaths of many historic figures. While now just a murder-mystery cliché to many, arsenic is still actually causing harm, with dangerously high levels in food and water around the world.
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May 10th, 2013
Greg Stephanopoulos, SBE Chair, Receives John Fritz Medal
By Evan Flach | Comments (0)Dr. Greg Stephanopoulos from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and chair of the Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), has been awarded the 2013 John Fritz Medal from the American Association of Engineering Societies.
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April 19th, 2013
Nanoparticle Masquerading as Red Blood Cell Fights Bacterial Infection
By Douglas Clark | Comments (0)New research published this week demonstrates how a nanoparticle cloaked in a red blood cell membrane can act as a sponge to remove toxins from the body.
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March 19th, 2013
Robert Langer – Father of Invention: Science Friday Interview
By Margot Berger | Comments (0)Interview with MIT Institute Professor and AIChE member, Robert Langer, discussing his accomplishments within the Chemical, Biological and Mechanical Engineering worlds.
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February 19th, 2013
DNA Goes Digital
By Arjun Gopalratnam | Comments (0)If our next leap in data storage is to a DNA-based system, chemical engineers and bioengineers will find themselves at the heart of computer science and tasked with preserving the world’s knowledge for future generations.
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January 24th, 2013
Data Reveals First Civilian All-Biofuel Flight Was a Success
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)The results on the first all-civilian biofuel flight are in: a 50% reduction in aerosol emissions compared to jet fuel, and a significant drop in black carbon emissions, with 1.5 % better fuel consumption.
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January 23rd, 2013
Immune Cells Engineered to Resist HIV
By Douglas Clark | Comments (0)Researchers at Stanford have devised a new way of engineering key cells of the immune system to resist HIV, according to a report issued yesterday by the university.
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