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January 2019

Etiquette in the Modern Workplace

With today’s diverse workforce, flat hierarchies, and open floorplans, office etiquette has become a minefield. This column will cover guidelines for today’s good office manners.

Why Dynamic Simulations?

This article reviews the benefits and potential of dynamic process simulation in the design, safe operation, and optimization of process plants.

Improve Your Negotiating Skills

Negotiation happens all the time within the workplace. Knowing how to negotiate effectively with your boss or as a team member can help you achieve your career goals. This column will discuss how you can build your negotiation skills. ...

Distillation: What's Next?

Distillation is often described as a mature technology that is well understood and established, no longer requiring funding or attention from research and development. This thinking is flawed, as distillation has come a long way in the last three decades and has even more room to grow.

This Week in Chemical Engineering - Fuels & Petrochemicals Spotlight: January 22, 2019

Don't miss out on the latest business and technology news for chemical engineers, featuring select items in relation to Fuels & Petrochemicals.

Judith Giordan

Judith Giordan is a co-founder of the Chemical Angels Network (www.chemicalangels.com) , Managing Director of ecosVC, Inc. (www.ecosvc.com) , professor of Practice at Oregon State University, a former Fortune 100 executive and an entrepreneur. Judy serves as board member, co-founder, advisor and investor in seed and early stage STEM aligned startups.

Her previous executive positions include Corporate Vice President and Officer/Global Director of Research and Development at...Read more

John Balchunas

John is the Workforce Director for the National Institute for Innovation in Manufacturing Biopharmaceuticals (NIIMBL). In addition, John is responsible for business development and industry partnership for the professional development program at North Carolina State University’s Biomanufacturing Training and Education Center (BTEC). Prior to joining NCSU in 2014, John served as the Director of Workforce Development for the North Carolina Biotechnology Center (NCBiotech). As part of NCBiotech’s Education and Training Program for nearly 10 years, John forged an array of partnerships with...Read more

Colin Clarke

Dr. Clarke graduated with a PhD in Bioinformatics from Cranfield University, UK, and specialises in the application of multivariate statistics and machine learning algorithms to high dimensional data. Upon completion of his doctoral training Colin took a position at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) applying chemometric approaches to analyse Raman and Infrared spectroscopy data from cells and tissues. He moved to the National Institute for Cellular Biotechnology at Dublin City University in 2009 to work in Martin Clynes’ group investigating the biology of CHO cells during...Read more

January 2019 Newsletter

Check out this month's Newsletter: https://www.aiche.org/sites/default/files/community/186226/aiche-community-site-newsletter/488266/january-2019-newsletter.pdf

January 2019 Joint ACS/AIChE-Chicago Meeting

Join us Friday, Jan 25th at 5:30pm for our Joint ACS/AIChE January Meeting. Guest Speaker Dr. Andrew Lee, Northwestern University Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, will be giving a presentation titled "Rational Cancer Vaccine Design Based on Spherical Nucleic Acids". Register here:...

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