Having a PhD does not mean you have to spend your whole career working in research. Experienced attendees discussed how they overcame the stereotype that PhDs are research workers and moved into leadership roles in industry. A Q&A session addressed career planning issues that new PhDs should consider when starting out in industry.
I captured some highlights of this session in the following videos:
Dr. Chaitan Khosla of Stanford University is the winner of the 2011 Bailey Award. A professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biochemistry in Standford University's School of Engineering, Dr. Khosla had a chance to sit down with the Society of Biological Engineering's Derek Lapiska for a chat ahead of his talk.
Dave is a reliability and maintenance leader with over 30 years of chemical and process industry experience. His keynote address is on Mechanical Reliability.
One effort to increase cellulosic ethanol production efficiencies using corn stover as feedstock involves a separation of and separate processing of the solid and liquid fractions of pretreated feedstock.
In addition to facilitating an increase in the productivity of ethanol fermentation and recovery, a spit stream process opens up the possibility of diverting the C5 stream to some potentially more lucrative bioproducts.
Algae and plant oils have shown great promise towards answering the energy density question, but I am reminded of a 3-step business plan that I encountered in school: Step 1 – Collect algae, Step 3 – Profit. The presenters in this session are concerned with that mysterious Step 2.
Aquaporin is a protein found in cell membranes has unique properties of water transport. Efforts are underway at the National University of Singapore to better understand these proteins, and how to incorporate them into engineered structures.
What gives food its flavor? What makes some foods taste really good while others can be mediocre or even disgusting? How far can science go in answering these and other questions that are so...
