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The challenge of learning from incidents: from awareness to identify, transfer, and sustain
Type: Feature
James Damore (@SkepticalTechie) was fired from his role as a software engineer at Google for his now-viral memo “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber”. In it he presents his issues with Google’s diversity programmes and presents his controversial views on why there is a gender gap in the tech industry, suggesting it ultimately boils down to some innate differences between men and women, some of which are biological.
Type: Feature
Remote tools: Undergraduate labs, under control
Joanne Tanner speaks to Amanda Doyle about lockdown labs and their future
Type: Feature
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Asabi Goodman
Yasmin Ali speaks to Asabi Goodman, a chemical engineer and professional performer, based in Australia.
Type: Feature
Rio Tinto will spend US$1bn on reducing emissions
RIO Tinto has announced that it will spend US$1bn over the next five years to reduce its carbon footprint as part of plans to get to net zero by 2050.
Type: News
Careers in Chemical Engineering: Judy Raper
Yasmin Ali speaks to Judy Raper, Dean and CEO of TEDI-London, a startup providing engineering higher education in London.
Type: Feature
Caterpillars might not break down plastic after all
RESEARCHERS in Germany say that research earlier this year showing that waxworms can chemically break down polyethylene does not show “sufficient proof” of biodegradation.
Type: News
Chemical engineers build portable pharmacy
System could be shipped to combat disease outbreak
Type: News
A renaissance is at hand: smaller nuclear reactors could soon come to an industrial site near you
Type: Feature
Martin Pitt continues to look at the history of chemical engineering and IChemE
Type: Feature
Jack Welch – No Engineers in the Boardroom
Claudia Flavell-While charts the rise of business giant (and chemical engineer) Jack Welch
Type: Feature
UK considers how to use small reactor opportunity
Balance between delivery speed and IP discussed
Type: News
AN explosion at an oil refinery in Taiwan set off a fire yesterday that took hours to extinguish.
Type: News
BASF opens global digital centre
BASF has opened a global digital centre in Madrid, Spain to enhance and broaden its digital competencies.
Type: News
Fire at Leamington Spa plastics facility
A FIRE and subsequent explosions occurred at a plastics facility in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK on 27 August. One worker is still unaccounted for.
Type: News
