Considering an MBA? “MBA the ChemE Way” session in San Antonio gave a quick snapshot into planning and applying to business schools, a look into core classes every MBA takes, and some words from experienced MBAs.
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May 17th, 2013
Lehigh University AIChE Student Chapter Reaches Out to Middle School Students
By ChenectedGuest | Comments (0)In an effort to cultivate an early interest in science, math, and engineering in middle school students, Lehigh University’s AIChE student chapter recently held a successful interactive science and chemical engineering outreach event at Broughal Middle School in Bethlehem, PA.
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May 17th, 2013
Billionaire Pays 20 More Students to Leave College
By Kent Harrington | Comments (1)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 […]
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May 2nd, 2013
High School Outreach Program Features Astronaut Al Sacco
By Douglas Clark | Comments (0)An outreach program for high school students in San Antonio featured speaker astronaut and chemical engineering professor Al Sacco.
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April 30th, 2013
Dr. John McKetta, Jr. Honored at Spring Meeting
By Douglas Clark | Comments (0)Numerous AIChE members from academia and industry gathered Monday evening to honor the lifelong achievements and contributions of Dr. John McKetta, Jr., whose career touched the lives of literally thousands of young engineers.
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April 26th, 2013
Lehigh University Student Chapter Share Science with Local 8th Grade
By Douglas Clark | Comments (0)AIChE student chapter members at Lehigh University visited Broughal Middle School to share the world of chemistry and engineering through demonstrations with four eighth-grade science classes.
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April 3rd, 2013
Teaching Safety in University Settings – GCPS Event
By Margot Berger | Comments (0)Process safety and a safety culture are needed in our higher education system not just to meet new ABET requirements, but also to meet the expectations of our industrial constituents, and to prepare students as responsible engineers.
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March 26th, 2013
Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Clean Tech Leaders
By ChenectedGuest | Comments (0)Have chemical engineering programs become divorced from the world and people they serve? One program has a new approach to focusing chemical engineering students on the world’s challenges.
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March 18th, 2013
Introducing High School Students to Chemical Engineering
By ChenectedGuest | Comments (4)As part of the AIChE Apprentice program, one young chemcial engineerg spoke to high school students on the topic of “What can chemical engineers do?” Read more about it here.
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March 14th, 2013
Why Are Chemical Engineering Students Left Out of Design Teams?
By ChenectedGuest | Comments (2)As product design increasingly turns to an interdisciplinary approach, why is it that student design teams so conspicuously lack chemical engineering students? Read on to learn more.
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