ChEnected Posts by Melanie Mesropian

Take a sneak peek at the 2025 AIChE Salary Survey, now available in the June 2025 issue of Chemical Engineering Progress (CEP).

Meet Noubar Afeyan, founder of Flagship Pioneering, co-founder of Moderna, and a prominent advocate of various humanitarian projects.

Take this year's survey and contribute to insights on salary and employment trends, lifestyle expectations, and more for a better-informed chemical engineering community.

One company has already produced a betavoltaic nuclear battery that reportedly can provide energy for 50 years.

The broad range of polymers known as plastics continues to evolve and grow. Learn about early plastics and about where plastics are headed.

Chemical engineers were likely involved in the creation of the textiles for many of the articles of clothing you're wearing right now.

Learn more about this year’s winners who represent a broad range of specialty areas and work in both academia and industry.

Did the Great Resignation affect chemical engineers? How has the median income of chemical engineers changed? Find out answers to these question and more.

Learn how other chemical engineers benefit from even modest foreign language knowledge in the workplace and beyond.

Learn how two chemical engineers who met in the skincare industry decided to go out on their own to form their own skincare company based on hard science.

Group projects are valuable learning experiences for students and young chemical engineers. Learn more about this UCLA graduate's experience.

Some of the changes in academia that COVID made necessary seem to be here to stay — and some of them actually seem like a silver lining.

Distilling complex chemical engineering concepts into key points is essential to communicating the work we do, whether in an interview or at a cocktail party. This fall, researchers will test their skills at the first AIChE 3MT competition.

Meet a young chemical engineer who has combined her artistic and chemical engineering skills to help introduce children and others to STEM concepts.