The faster you are to market, the quicker you can begin to profit. At Zeton, they are fine-tuning the art of "just-in-time engineering," and Adam Whalley talked about how they shave weeks and even months off already tight schedules.

The Society for Biological Engineering is happy to announce the launch of the Daniel I. C. Wang Award for excellence in biochemical engineering. This award is to show great appreciation for Professor Wang's contributions in the classroom and beyond. He has helped to make vast progress in biochemical engineering as well as make technological innovations in bioprocessing.

Trey Morrison, chair of the 8th Global Congress on Process Safety & principal engineer at Exponent, discusses some of the highlights from the this year's event in Houston and shares an anecdote about an experience that helped lead him to a career in process safety.

Columbia professor Jingyue Ju, early co-inventor of the fluorescence energy transfer labeling technology that enabled the development of high-throughput DNA sequencers, finds himself in the middle of a patent protection lawsuit that will affect some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies.

During the poster session at the Spring Meeting in Houston, we spoke with Ryan Vano of Natural Composites Inc. He shared with us his company's work with coconut fibers and the composite materials it's making from this largely untapped natural resource.

This month, CEP Magazine's Back to Basics looks at minimizing the risks of flammable materials. Also covered this month are bulk solids segregation problems, Taiwan's chemical industry, and news about the latest in chemical engineering, from nanoglue to carbon management and a progress report on the recovery of Japan's chemical industry.

Joe Stough of IHS spoke with us at the Spring Meeting poster session in Houston to explain his company's research on better understanding how the best-performing companies are working towards improved safety in their facilities.

The Featured YP for April is Lauren Deitch. Learn more about her background, her advice to other young professionals, and what she'd be doing if she hadn't chosen to study chemical engineering.

When a large, well established organization determines that it cannot internally provide the level or speed of innovation and new product development that it needs to survive and grow, it will often engage a small innovative start-up company to make up for the shortcoming.

ChEnected sat down with Michael Dolan, senior vice president of ExxonMobil following his keynote address in Houston. Hear his thoughts on process safety as it relates to chemical engineers and the petroleum industry, including a discussion on the balancing of risk and the future challenges for chemical engineers and industry.

Between sessions at the 8th Global Congress for Process Safety in Houston, we sat down with Peter N. Lodal, technical fellow, Plant Protection Technical Services at Eastman Chemical Company, to hear his thoughts and advice for young engineers working in process safety.

Cato T. Laurencin, director of the Institute for Regenerative Engineering at the UConn Health Center, has been recognized in National Geographic's issue among "Scientific Discoveries that Changed the World" for his work in regenerative medicine.

Siemens, often described as an "industrial giant," is striving to perform in a way such that will also make it known as a "sustainability giant." As part of the YP Tutorial on Environmental Topics, Stephanie Nadeau presented an overview of Siemens' ongoing commitment to sustainability.

Twin Creek's new process for producing solar cells solves one of solar manufacturing's most severe bottlenecks. It replaces the current wasteful practice of cutting blocks of silicon with wire saws, proposing instead a highly efficient process that results in photovoltaic cells only 20 microns thick. The result is a process that reduces the amount of processed silicon by 90 percent.