Salt of the Earth: Part 1
Martin Pitt considers the chemical engineering history of common salt
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Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 3: FEED and Detailed Design
In part three of his four-part series, Steven King concentrates on front-end engineering design (...
The Engineering Mindset Part 6: Complex or Complicated? Measurements and Targets – be careful what you ask for
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how real-time data and dynamic insights can drive sustainable change
Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 2: Feasibility and Pre-FEED
In the second of this four-part series, Steven King highlights the importance of the stages, what...
The Engineering Mindset Part 5: Complex or Complicated? Practical principles or prescriptive targets
Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how an approach focused on direction and principles, rather than n...
The Story of PTFE
Martin Pitt looks at the accidental discovery of polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), a versatile non-...
Front-end lessons: green megaprojects at risk unless government learns from HS2 blunders
Tom Baxter says the UK government must learn from past engineering project mistakes or expensive ...
Demystifying Engineering Projects Part 1: Don’t Skip the Phases
TÜV Rheinland has seen an increase in engineering capital projects which aim to move quickly thro...
The Engineering Mindset Part 4: Complex or Complicated? There are no silver bullets
Chris and Penny Hamlin say that in complex systems, the path to success is never a single solutio...
Glass In all its Glory: Part 2
Martin Pitt looks at the Industrial Age, which saw the mechanisation of glass manufacture, but al...
The Engineering Mindset Part 3: Complex or Complicated? Adapting Strategies
Chris and Penny Hamlin on how a complexity-based approach can be helpful in avoiding and mitigati...
Safe AI Innovation Needs Robust Regulation
Aniqah Majid joined industry leaders as they came together for an IChemE roundtable on AI’s use i...
The Engineering Mindset Part 2: Complex or Complicated? What Defines A Complex System?
Using the petrochemicals industry, Chris and Penny Hamlin explain how a complexity-based approach...
Glass In all its Glory: Part 1
We look through it and maybe overlook it, but glass is a vital 200m t/y material for the world to...
The Engineering Mindset Part 1: Complex or Complicated
Are the individual, societal, and global challenges we face complex or complicated, and do you un...
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