The AIChE Spring Meeting is the year’s key technical conference for practicing chemical engineers.

The U.S. is highly dependent on foreign countries for rare earth elements (REEs) and strategic and critical materials (S&CMs). Dr. Tedd Lister and Dr. Eric Peterson of the Idaho National Laboratory propose “urban mining” to address the concerns associated with traditional mining.

This year's Corporate Innovation Award winner was Corning Incorporated. In the award lecture, Marc Giroux of Corning addressed the link between chemical engineering and the technology behind innovations in glass and ceramics.

ChEnected sat down with Eleftherios Terry Papoutsakis prior to his acceptance of the Jay Bailey Award to discuss his research and thoughts on the field of biological engineering.

More than 80 young professionals gathered at The Library on Pittsburgh's South Side for the joint YP-SIOC Social co-sponsored by the Young Professionals Committee (YPC) and the Societal Impact Operating Council (SIOC). Check out the photos of this exercise and other fun we had at the event below in the slideshow.

Professor Guy Marin of Ghent University, Belgium, is professor in chemical reaction engineering and directs the Laboratory for chemical technology. He is this year's Danckwerts Lecture, and his lecture is titled "Chemical Engineering and Kinetics: A Pas de Deux of Theory And Experiment."

I had the opportunity to catch up with just a few of the ChemE Car teams during their poster sessions and asked them what was the most enjoyable part of the project and competition for them. Following are a few of the responses.

Months of hard work all came down to the final two runs Sunday afternoon for competitors and their Chem-E-Cars. Cornell University beat out 2011 defending champions University of Puerto Rico. Check out the slideshow and results.

Every year, Institute and Board of Directors’ Awards are presented at the AIChE Honors Ceremony. These are AIChE’s most prestigious awards, honoring eminent chemical engineers for career accomplishments, service to society, and service to the Institute.

While Fukushima has had an extraordinary effect on nuclear energy, it's still with us and there's a lot changing. Hear how the industry is evolving and where it's headed.

We had a chance to catch up with some of the 2012 National Chem-E-Car teams at the Poster Session. Below are interviews we did with Cornell University (this year's National Competition winners), University of Houston, University of Maryland, University of Puerto Rico, and University of South Florida.

We had a chance to catch up with some of the 2012 National Chem-E-Car teams at the Poster Session. We interviewed University of Akron, Bucknell University, Carnegie Mellon, and University of Pittsburgh.

Perhaps you can infer some of Pittsburgh’s history just by the name of their football team, but Pittsburgh is steeped in a wide range of industrial history. From iron and glass to steel and... zombies?!

Check out photos of the many costumes spotted at he Halloween Bash.

The 2012 edition of National ChemE Jeopardy took place from 4:00 to 6:30 at the 2012 AIChE Student Conference. For the 1st round, the nine participating teams were split into three rooms as answered questions from the categories, which are listed below.