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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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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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Didn’t find your dream job right out of college? Or looking for a job while still in school? Hear how one chemical engineer is tackling the job search and learn from his experience on the job hunt.
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Meet Amy Nutis, a senior at the University of Maryland, and learn more about her chemical engineering college experience and her plans with Dow Chemical after graduation.
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AIChE President Phillip Westmoreland and Spring Meeting Program Co-Chair Bruce Eldridge kicked of the first-ever Spring Meeting Student Program by welcoming students from across the US.
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Meet Alia Khan, a senior at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, who is headed to work at ExxonMobil in Houston after graduation.
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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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AIChE’s Youth Council for Sustainable Science and Technology (YCOSST), chaired by Jeff Seay and Sarah Widder, is part of the AIChE Institute for Sustainability. The goal is for YCOSST to be a clearinghouse for information and resources for K-12, undergraduates and young professionals interested in careers or college majors that involve sustainability.
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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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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.”
