As America's dump-truck-accessible landfill spaces fill to the brim with garbage, the nation's $12.5 billion trash hauling king turned to a 52-year-old chemical engineer with a unique solution verging on 60s science fiction: a plasma-enhanced melter technology.
Voting for the 2013 AIChE Board of Directors is underway online! Over the next couple of weeks, you'll see their answers to questions we posed and will get to know them better in this series of posts.
This fall in Pittsburgh a one-and-a-half day workshop is scheduled to bring together experts to discuss current water management technologies and process utilized to address water use and impacted water disposal.
When you're the biggest trash hauler in the US, the world's growing stash of trash is your oyster. And Waste Management Inc, which rakes in $12.3 billion every year carting rubbish away to landfills, has unearthed its pearl, worth an optimistic $40 billion a year.
The question students ask most is what can they do to get a job in engineering, but often the answer lies with people they already know. Read more about how others have found jobs and gain from their advice and experience.
Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy that expensive spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos Eyes on the Solar System, free-to-use software from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory that was create for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun in real-time.
This month a 32-page special section of CEP focuses on the entire shale gas supply chain. You'll also find advice on choosing process vacuum pumps, an overview of Spain's chemical industry, learn the latest on algae oil production, and more.
Congratulations to Eleftherios Terry Papoutaskis for being the recipient of this year’s James E. Bailey Award. Read more about his work and upcoming lecture at the Annual Meeting.
Researchers at Stanford and Pennsylvania State have devised a way of using microbes t
Congratulations to Kyle Lampe of Stanford University, winner of the poster session at SBE's 6th International Conference on Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (ICBN).
Nikala Gigliotti, an undergraduate in biomolecular engineering at the Milwaukee School of Engineering, attended the 6th annual International Conference for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (ICBN) at the University of California at Berkeley and shares photo highlights.
For decades, researcher Mina Bissell pursued a revolutionary idea: a cancer cell doesn't automatically become a tumor, but rather, depends on surrounding cells for cues on how to develop. She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong.
Want to know how sustainability goes beyond the carbon footprint and greenhouse gas production? Check out this interview with Laura Gimpelson, a registered professional engineer in multiple states with more than 30 years of experience in green technology, environmental cleanup, and environmental safety. Laura will be presenting at the upcoming Virtual Local Section later today.
Construction starts this month on the The New York Genome Center (NYGC) which aims to be the largest research center of its kind in North America. First on its list of major projects is Alzheimer's research.
Our bodies are covered in a sea of microbes -- both the pathogens that make us sick and the "good" microbes, about which we know less, that might be keeping us healthy. At TEDMED, microbiologist Jonathan Eisen shares what we know, including some surprising ways to put those good microbes to work.
Opening the door to a new era computer-aided biological engineering, Stanford researchers announce in an article published in the journal Cell that they have completed the first computer model for an entire organism.
