October 2018Issue 928
THE UK’s Royal Academy of Engineering and Lloyd’s Register Foundation have announced a £15m (US$19.5m) partnership seeking to advance engineering safety around the world.
FORMER IChemE Council members Dame Judith Hackitt and Ed Daniels have been awarded honorary degrees by their alma mater, Imperial College London.
WOOD has won a contract to support Hitachi’s work as architect engineer for the Wylfa Newydd nuclear plant in the UK.
LAST night London’s Science Museum unveiled a series of drawings by renowned illustrator Quentin Blake celebrating famous engineers, scientists, and their inventions.
CHEMICAL engineer Frances Arnold has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her pioneering work that mimics evolution to engineer enzymes.
There is a new player in the wastewater process sector, re-writing the rules of the game
ICHEME has announced the nominees for Congress – the Institution’s new advisory body. The body will consist of up to 40 members and will act as a sounding board and advise the board of trustees on matters of interest to IChemE and its members.
THE Cullen Report into the Piper Alpha disaster is now available to download for free from the Health & Safety Executive (HSE), after IChemE lobbied to have the fee waived.
2015 marks the centenary of the Great Shell Crisis of World War I (WWI), in which the British Army was running short of munitions. The subsequent scaling up of the supply of high explosives and propellants became a major achievement of the embryonic chemical engineering profession under the leadership of Kenneth Bingham Quinan.
For a series called Chemical Engineers who Changed the World, it would be downright rude not to feature the man who is widely regarded as the founding father of the discipline and the spiritual father of IChemE.
No chemical engineering feat better illustrates the double-edged nature of many inventions than the Haber-Bosch process.