December 2016 | AIChE

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December 2016

Navigate Your Career to the Executive Level

In this month’s column, Carol Williams talks about her journey at Dow Chemical as she moved from an R&D engineer through various business leader and director roles to the executive vice president of manufacturing and engineering and special advisor to Dow’s chairman and CEO....

Using U.S. Chemical Safety Board Resources

Learn about resources the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) offers that can help you to improve process safety at your site.

Enhanced Stakeholder Knowledge

Enhanced Stakeholder Knowledge promotes understanding of risk among all stakeholders, including the public, government, and industry leaders.

Enhanced Application and Sharing of Lessons Learned

Enhanced Application and Sharing of Lessons Learned communicates critical knowledge in a focused manner that encourages continual learning.

Assignor Estoppel

This month’s column will cover the topic of assignor estoppel — a doctrine of U.S. patent law that prevents the patent’s assignor from attacking his or her patent. The column will answer the questions: Why would you ever want to attack your own patent?  And should the...

Process Safety Knowledge Transfer

Chemical engineers should be taught process safety during their undergraduate education, rather than wait for on-the-job training.

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