ChEnected

Moving from Student to Chemical Engineer

. by Arjun Gopalratnam

ChEnected interviewed Sarah Ewing about moving from school to the business world on a video chat recently. Sarah graduated from UC Irvine 2010 with B.S. Chemical Engineering, and was a field engineer at Schlumberger and now serves as a field applications engineer at FMC. Check out the video and hear what she has to say.

Finding the Right Career in Chemical Engineering

. by Robert Szczesniak

Not sure where your place is in the world of chemical engineering? Robert Szczesniak wasn't sure either, but he found a great fit. Today, he travels the world working on different projects as a chemical engineer. He describes the path – which wasn't always so direct – and gives advice for finding a position that will be a good fit for you.

The Father of Wind Energy: Meet Henrik Stiesdal

. by Kent Harrington

Stiesdal, who has 85 patents to his name, has changed Siemens Wind Energy from a regional turbine builder into a global powerhouse, with research and manufacturing centers in major markets as far away as China and the United States.

Chinese Hackers Target U.S. Oil and Gas

. by Kent Harrington

A group of China’s increasingly sophisticated cybersoldiers, known as the “Comment Crew," appear to be trying to penetrate America's critical infrastructure, including systems that remotely monitor oil and gas pipelines.

Wind Energy Dukes It Out With Fossil Fuels

. by Kent Harrington

2012 turned out to be a year when old assumptions about wind energy began to shift as the planet’s installed wind capacity jumped from 238 GWs to about 282 GWs. Read about the big developments in Australia and the U.S.

DNA Goes Digital

. by Arjun Gopalratnam

If our next leap in data storage is to a DNA-based system, chemical engineers and bioengineers will find themselves at the heart of computer science and tasked with preserving the world's knowledge for future generations.

Celebrate Engineer’s Week - Feb. 17-23, 2013

. by John Vasko

AIChE salutes engineers who make life better. This is the 62nd celebration of engineering’s contributions and the 10th year of recognizing younger engineers. Meet this year’s New Faces in Engineering honoree, Esmeralda Luna-Ramos.

Jeff Surma Wants to Electrify Municipal Waste

. by Kent Harrington

Jeff Surma, a chemical engineer by training and now something of an energy visionary, has not only proven that InEnTec, his small startup, can profitably vaporize garbage by turning it into grid power, he's also convinced that the process could scale up nationally.