Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2012 took place April 3-5 with an all-star roster of presenters and a sold-out exhibitor space at the Hilton Americas in Houston, TX. See highlights.
Are you a student or young professional? Are you curious about what how AIChE is set up? Are you wondering about what exactly you get with AIChE membership?
Have you heard about YPAB, but aren't quite sure what it does?
Our AIChE Fellows/Young Professionals Mentoring Pilot Program was a great success last year, thanks to the Fellows and Young Professionals who participated, and we hope to change aspirations into results for a whole new group of participants this year. We will begin a second round of the Fellows/Young Professionals Mentoring Program in February 2012 and hope that you will take part.
You still have time to register for the 2012 Carbon Management Technology Conference, held 7-9 February in Orlando, Florida, at the Caribe Royale Hotel and Convention Center.
Register by Monday, 16 January to take advantage of early registration rates!
For a humorous look at the undergraduate decisions that every chemical engineer makes, check out this tongue-in-cheek "investigative report" on why student students choose chemical engineering as a major. You can watch the video in the panel to the right.
After a great year, YPAB is jumping right into 2012. We recently elected a new Vice Chair, Christine Curran of the South Texas Local Section, and are currently preparing for the Spring Conference which will be held in Houston in April.
This month CEP kicks off a series of articles about engineers and social media and also launches YPOV, a new column for Young Professionals, which looks this month at how community service and volunteer activities can provide exceptional opportunities for career building.
Using a biopixel display composed of millions of living E.coli bacterial cells that fluoresce in unison like a blinking Las Vegas neon sign, bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a bacterial sensor that can easily detect low levels of arsenic.
