S. Shariq Yosufzai, VP Global Diversity, Ombuds, and University Affairs for Chevron Corporation, shares his thoughts on young engineers and soft skills, ChemECar, and more at the 2013 Spring Meeting in San Antonio.
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May 24th, 2013
Shariq Yosufzai of Chevron on Diversity and Advice for Young Engineers [Video]
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May 20th, 2013
US DOE’s Dr. Satyapal Discusses Fuel Cell Tech [Video]
By John Vasko | Comments (0)CEP editor Emily Frangenberg had a chance to speak with Dr. Sunita Satyapal, who is director of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Fuel Cell Technologies Program within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
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May 9th, 2013
Keynoter Aamir Farid, Shell VP, Reflects on ChE-Style Manufacturing [video]
By John Vasko | Comments (0)Aamir Farid, Shell’s Vice President of Manufacturing – Americas, reflects on ChE-style manufacturing in an interview with 2013 AIChE President Phil Westmoreland following the 2013 Spring Meeting & GCPS keynote address, “Delivering Innovative Solutions for an Energy Future.”
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February 25th, 2013
The Father of Wind Energy: Meet Henrik Stiesdal
By Kent Harrington | Comments (2)Stiesdal, who has 85 patents to his name, has changed Siemens Wind Energy from a regional turbine builder into a global powerhouse, with research and manufacturing centers in major markets as far away as China and the United States.
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February 18th, 2013
Jeff Surma Wants to Electrify Municipal Waste
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)Jeff Surma, a chemical engineer by training and now something of an energy visionary, has not only proven that InEnTec, his small startup, can profitably vaporize garbage by turning it into grid power, he’s also convinced that the process could scale up nationally.
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February 15th, 2013
Siemens Installs First 6MW Offshore Turbines
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)Five miles off the English coast in choppy 40-foot-deep water, Siemens quickly installed two of their newest 6MW wind turbines in just 24 hours at Gunfleet Sands.
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February 11th, 2013
Alta Rock’s Enhanced Geothermal Breakthrough in Oregon
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)AltaRock Energy, enhanced geothermal pioneer, reached a milestone in Oregon, near the Newberry Crater, after stimulating several fractures from one wellbore.
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January 29th, 2013
Is the Shape of the Solar Future about to Change?
By Kent Harrington | Comments (1)The gale-force storm of internet Hype is starting to clog bandwidh so badly that LOLCats addicts are starting to complain. V3Solar, a Southern California startup, says that it has invented and is now commercializing the first major change to flat panel PV technology in decades – and calling it the V3 […]
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December 21st, 2012
Cooking Tortillas With Solar Power in Mexico
By Kent Harrington | Comments (1)Under a blazing sun in Mexico’s central mountain range, locally made, dish-shaped, solar panels suck up the area’s intense light and beam 2000° heat into local kitchens.
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December 20th, 2012
Taking a Drone on an Oil Pipeline Inspection Test Drive
By Kent Harrington | Comments (0)Watch a demonstration of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) conducted by BP to improve pipeline inspections in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
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