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Up for a team challenge and prizes? Download official 2025 ChemE Cube Competition materials here.

See who was honored at the AIChE 2024 Student Awards Ceremony in San Diego, and check out the photo album of the event.

Get the stats for top winners and learn who won additional awards in the 2024 Chem-E-Car finals.

Check out the first group of Chem-E-Car videos from teams competing in San Diego in just over a week!

Lead process researcher Jun Shi talks about her work on ExxonMobil’s direct air capture pilot and looks at what’s ahead for DAC and other solutions that address climate change.

Go beyond the basic job search and get the information you need to research and plan a fulfilling career path in chemical engineering.

The initiative’s interactive modules bring real-world engineering concepts into the classroom, demystify chemical engineering and inspiring the next generation of problem-solvers.

Use your creativity and passion for chemical engineering to inspire the next generation of chemical engineers.

Hear what advice Louisa Nara, former Global Technical Director of CCPS, has to share, whether you're an undergraduate or highly experienced chemical engineer.

FOSSI Scholars Carol Akpan and Liyah Wilson joined program sponsors and prospective supporters for a roundtable discussion at the AIChE Spring Meeting in New Orleans.

In its relaunch for 2024, the AIChE Chemical Engineering for Good Challenge (ACE4G) will again award cash prizes for winning submissions from chemical engineering students.

If you’re up for a student team challenge and chemical engineering problem solving, ChemE Cube is for you! Sign up now before the deadline.

Learn about the complex science behind making ice cream in this video, and check out the accompanying lesson plan that was created for high school and college classrooms.

Learn how Chem-E-Car suddenly went global and find out how its rules have changed over the years. Plus, see photos from past years.

Did you know Chem-E-Car was initially inspired by a plastics recycling competition in the early 1990s? Learn more about its origins and history in this two-part series.

On November 5th around 100 attendees, including K–12 students, their parents, and educators gathered at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting to participate in the K–12 STEM Showcase.

Learn how you can take part in celebrating National STEM Day, including with AIChE.

Get the stats for top winners and learn who won additional awards in the 2023 Chem-E-Car finals.

Meet seven more Chem-E-Car Competition® teams and theirs cars in the latest videos.

Jesse McManus, a Carbon Capture Scale-up Engineer at ExxonMobil, talks about the role of direct air capture (DAC) in attaining net zero emissions, and discusses his work in this important area.

Four AIChE students went to Washington as WISE interns this year to learn how government officials and engineers can work together to bring about better public policies.

The FOSSI program celebrates its new class of 132 FOSSI scholars, who are from 26 states and will be attending 26 historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this fall. See video.

Learn how better process safety knowledge can make you a better chemical engineer and better job candidate.

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

Arriving in the US at the age of 19 with little English, this young Latina relied on determination and hard work to earn a PhD in chemical engineering at Yale.

Want to improve your communication and leadership skills? Get experience presenting your thesis and make new connections with other chemical engineers with the 3MT® Competition.

AIChE welcomes its first student chapter in France.

Find internships, connect with new chemical engineering career opportunities and paths, access member-only benefits for your job search, and more.

MAC's work to include underrepresented groups in chemical engineering dates to the 1960s. Check out its major milestones and progress, from inception to 2023.

Read about the visit to Howard University, hear FOSSI scholars' feedback and requests from the initiative, and see more photos from the visit.

MAC moves to a broader vision to include and welcome a wider community of chemical engineers.

Be sure to sign up for this week's webinar if you're interested in joining this year's ChemE Cube Competition in Orlando this fall.

Do you know a STEM student headed to an HBCU who could benefit from a $40K scholarship? Tell them about FOSSI!

Get to know more about what interests these FOSSI scholars are what their plans and STEM career goals are for the future.

Learn how these chemical engineering students in Brazil created a solution to help small communities improve water management for better quality of life.

Find out how these students discovered that used car batteries could serve beyond their normal lifetime in new ways in the developing world.

Meet these scholars who are pursuing STEM degrees at Alcorn State University, Delaware State University, Tennessee State University, and Xavier University of Louisiana.

Learn about this chemical engineering team’s ACE4G experience working on a solar dehydrator to help local farmers add value to their product and reduce waste.

The top trophy went to the University of Toledo team, with a winning distance of 30.4 cm. See all winners in the 2022 AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition.

See the 2022 Chem-E-Car videos from University of Toronto, Auburn University, Guizhou Institute of Technology, and Universidad Nacional de Colombia Sede Bogota.

Learn how this student chapter in India is building a stronger community of chemical engineering students and helping them advance their studies and find career prospects.

Learn how these chemical engineering students in Ecuador overcame challenges in the early pandemic and ultimately thrived.

Learn how this young student chapter seized the title of national champion in the AIChE Chem-E-Car Competition® at Brazil’s first Annual Student Conference.

Meet this young but high-achieving AIChE Student Chapter and learn what they’re doing to develop their chemical engineering skills.

Steam distillation is often used to remove a volatile oil from plant material. Learn why and understand how this process works.

This chemical engineering video tutorial describes how to use an interactive simulation that shows what occurs when a liquid is injected into an evacuated, isothermal tank.

Having trouble plotting partial molar values for non-ideal, binary mixtures? Check out this video for a tutorial that shows how an interactive simulation can be used to plot the values.

As water becomes more scarce in many areas of the world, chemical engineers and others in the chemical sciences are finding new ways to harness previously disregarded sources and develop water recycling methods.

Learn how teams of chemical engineering students from around the world created microscale engineering solutions to real-world problems.

Student teams and their 1-cubic-foot plant designs will battle it out this November in Phoenix. Learn more here and sign up before March 31 to join the competition.

Join us for a look at diversity and inclusion and gain an understanding of what a diversity group could do for your AIChE Student Chapter and its members.

A conversation with Luz Castañeda Pérez of the Federico Villarreal National University and Luis Carrasco Venegas of the National University of Callao, both science professors and inventors.