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Modelling with Excel Part 7: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 1
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
Jacobs selected to support Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation to develop a UK demonstrator
NUCLEAR developer Ultra Safe Nuclear Corporation (USNC) UK, part of a US-based company, has selected Jacobs to support the design and development of its micro modular reactor (MMR), which is expected to support the transition away from fossil fuels. This follows news that the UK government has awarded USNC UK funding to build a demonstration reactor in the country.
Type: News
INWED: Female chemical engineers recognised for green leadership
AS celebrations get underway for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED), we caught up with the six chemical engineers who today were announced as winners of the Top 50 Women in Engineering, for their work on sustainability.
Type: Feature
IChemE Fellow awarded Australia Day honours
ICHEME Fellow Geoffrey Stevens, a chemical engineering professor at the University of Melbourne, has been awarded Officer (AO) in the General Division of the Order of Australia in the Australia Day 2020 Honours list.
Type: News
Experts from academia and industry discuss the challenges in chemical engineering education and where it needs to go in future
Type: Feature
Aitken awarded Ambassador Prize as IChemE unveils 2024 medals winners
JENNIFER AITKEN has posthumously been awarded IChemE’s Ambassador Prize in recognition of her leadership and mentoring commitment, technical acumen, and outstanding work in pharmaceutical process design and safety. She is among eight individuals and five groups recognised today with medals and prizes from the Institution.
Type: News
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 provides a critically different perspective and insight that can be applied to pretty much any sector, market, or organisation
Type: Feature
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 solution, but instead a dynamic mix of approaches that co-evolve
Type: Feature
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 numerical targets and specific policies, fosters new opportunities and solutions, providing a framework everyone can use to guide their actions
Type: Feature
Wood and Computer Modelling Group team up to advance carbon capture storage solutions
WOOD, the global engineering and consulting company, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Computer Modelling Group (CMG), to advance carbon capture storage solutions.
Type: News
Petrofac awarded contract for Acorn project
PETROFAC has been awarded a contract for engineering and project support for Pale Blue Dot Energy’s Acorn project, which aims to develop full-chain carbon capture and storage (CCS) in North East Scotland, UK.
Type: News
Three researchers awarded IChemE Andrew Fellowship
ICHEME has awarded three chemical engineering researchers the Andrew Fellowship to advance the field of catalysis.
Type: News
Modelling with Excel Part 8: A Comparative Study ‑ Part 2
Stephen Hall offers practical guidance on using Excel for project engineering
Type: Feature
Customer Viewpoint: IChemE Forms of Contract
IChemE’s The Blue Book provides a standard reference point for the engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) contracting model. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s Hannah Smith and Vanessa Medina explain why it could not have come at a better time
Type: Feature
A Lego Technic Cupcake Production Line
In the third of a series about chemical engineers who are volunteering their skills to contribute to society, Peter Swanson shares his experiences of getting schoolchildren into chemical engineering
Type: Feature
Developing Policies: What Can We Do?
Increasing chemical engineering contributions to sustainable policy development: an Australian perspective
Type: Feature
Petronas to become Southeast Asia’s sole melamine provider
PETRONAS Chemicals claims it will become Southeast Asia’s sole melamine producer after awarding an engineering, procurement, construction, and commissioning (EPCC) contract worth up to €250m (US$279.1m) for a 60,000 t/y plant in Malaysia.
Type: News
IChemE medals committee chair encourages nominations to recognise professional excellence
MEMBERS of the chemical engineering profession are being urged to celebrate the outstanding work of their colleagues bywith nominating themons for an IChemE medal. by the incoming chair of the Institution’s Medals and Prizes Committee, Mark Simmons.
Type: News
“I WANT the stuff I work on to make an impact. That’s everything I think engineering should be.”
Type: News
Several factors led to fatal Brazil dam collapse, reports expert panel
AN expert panel commissioned by Brazilian mining giant Vale has concluded that a number of factors, including a steep slope design and high water level, combined to create the conditions for failure that led to the fatal collapse of a Vale tailings dam last year.
Type: News
